Sentences with phrase «spaceflight center»

David Lagomasino, a remote sensing scientist at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center and co-investigator on the project, told Earther that the southwestern toe of Everglades National Park and Ten Thousand Islands — a vast network of coastal mangrove islets and marshes near Everglades City — were hit hardest by the storm.

According to Les Johnson, a senior technical advisor for NASA's Advanced Concepts Office at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, solar sails could propel us to the stars one day.

TESS team partners include the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) and MIT Lincoln Laboratory; NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center; Orbital Sciences Corporation; NASA's Ames Research Center; the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; The Aerospace Corporation; and the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Tuck Stebbins, head of the gravitational astrophysics laboratory at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, described the detectors as the «most complex machines humans have ever built.»

Co-authors of the research paper are Melanie B. Follette - Cook of Morgan State University in Baltimore; Mike Newchurch of UAH; Kenneth E. Pickering of NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; Arastoo Pour - Biazar of UAH; Shi Kuang of UAH; William Koshack of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville; and Harold Peterson of the Universities Space Research Association in Huntsville.

She received her PhD from The Ohio State University in May 1997, subsequently serving in a number of different positions from a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics from 1997 - 2000, to a position at the National Academy of Sciences as a program officer with the Office on Public Understanding of Science from 2001 - 2003 to a Program Planning Specialist position at NASA Headquarters, culminating in a position at Goddard Spaceflight Center as the Education and Public Outreach Lead for the Astrophysics Science Division.

«Everything lines up except the physics,» says Valerie Connaughton of NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center.

To find out more about the origin and future of the Perseids, we spoke to Bill Cooke, the Meteoroid Environment Office lead at the NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala. [An edited transcript of the interview follows.]

«Sara's study helps us find weird life where before we would have been flying blind,» says Shawn Domagal - Goldman of NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

One group, Nat Gopalswamy of NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and his colleagues, will test a new version of an instrument called a polarimeter, built to measure the temperature and speed of electrons leaving the sun.

Golden Spike now has several experienced directors and advisors, including Gerry Griffin, former director of NASA's Johnson Spaceflight Center, and Wayne Hale, former chief of NASA's space shuttle programme.

Not exact matches

The NASTAR center is (to date) the only private training facility to meet FAA safety regulations for both orbital and suborbital human spaceflight, which has made them a de facto partner for commercial space companies like Virgin Galacticand Astronauts 4 Hire.

Carl Ade, assistant professor of exercise physiology, and collaborators partnered with the Johnson Space Center to find that astronauts» exercise capacity decreases between 30 and 50 percent in long - duration spaceflight because the heart and small blood vessels are not as effective at transporting oxygen to the working muscle.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

As the shuttle — the centerpiece of American space exploration for the last 40 years — paraded to its final resting place at the city's California Science Center, the future of spaceflight was orbiting overhead: Space Exploration Technology (SpaceX) Corporation's Dragon, an unmanned capsule, was circling 240 miles up, delivering nearly 900 pounds of food, water, and equipment to the International Space Station.

Visit Space.com's partner Spaceflight Now for an up - to - the - minute account of today's scrub via the website's Mission Status Center.

Another investigation that will be taking place is the NanoRacks - National Center for Earth and Space Science - Charlie Brown, in association with the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP).

NASA Space Life and Physical Sciences and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) developed the Rodent Research - 1 spaceflight experiments.

«Spaceflight data is hard to come by; we should remember what's already been done, so we can make the most of new opportunities to do human research in space,» said corresponding author Dr. Virginia Wotring, associate professor of the Center for Space Medicine and pharmacology and chemical biology at Baylor College of Medicine.

On the island of Hainan, just off Guangdong's coast, China is constructing its most technologically advanced spacecraft launch center — the first spaceflight complex to be open to international visitors.

A Shuttle - Mir veteran and a spacewalking virtuoso will join the ranks of other spaceflight legends on the afternoon of Saturday, May 3, at the Kennedy Space Center -LSB-...]

«The SHERLOC instrument is a valuable opportunity to prepare for human spaceflight as well as to perform fundamental scientific investigations of the Martian surface,» said Marc Fries, a SHERLOC co-investigator and curator of extraterrestrial materials at Johnson Space Center.

While clearly a concern of these two authorization committees, the future of the human spaceflight program obviously was center stage.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — SpaceFlight Insider continued its tour of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center with a stop to speak with Heather Haney, NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) Stages Element Test Manager.

As Secretary of Commerce and Trade, Pat served as an ex officio member of the board of directors of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, the Virginia Tourism Corporation, the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission, the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park Authority, the Center for Innovative Technology, the Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority, the Virginia - Israel Advisory Board, the Virginia Workforce Council and the Virginia Commercial Spaceflight Authority.