Sentences with phrase «year in space mission»

Updated, 9:58 p.m. Much has been written about the remarkable achievements of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart, cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, during their (340 - day) Year in Space mission aboard the International Space Station.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will monitor the landing of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko from their Year in Space Mission.

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I left McAfee after seven years to begin my next company in the endpoint security space, CrowdStrike, with the mission to stop major breaches and redefine how endpoint security was delivered from the cloud.

So far this year, the company has successfully completed four launches, including a resupply mission to the International Space Station in February, as well as placing satellites into orbit on behalf of two commercial customers.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Space Race.

The mission is certainly exciting — it will mark the first time humans have traveled that deep into space in 45 years.

While Enlightened Mama has changed size and venues over the years, the mission remains: to be a safe space for community - building, evidence - based education, & unbiased support to empower individuals to feel confident & THRIVE in whatever they are doing — birth, parenting, breastfeeding, professional development, & their overall journey in life.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, WPF's mission continues to be to encourage investment in Westchester County's 18,000 acres of parks, trails and open spaces.

Understanding how earthly bacteria behave in space will be crucial for diagnosing an astronaut with the sniffles on the way back from a Mars mission and those studies may take years.

Not to be outdone, the European Space Agency hopes to launch an ambitious 12 - year mission in February called Rosetta.

Other science outlays included $ 46 million over 4 years to create 1500 industrial internships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows within Canadian business, $ 49 million toward the transformation of the National Research Council into what officials call a «toolbox» for industry, and a commitment to extend Canadian participation in the International Space Station mission to 2024.

After years of testing — aerogel flew to the space station Mir and in the open cargo bay of the space shuttle — Tsou was ready to propose the Stardust mission.

As a result, the sun now looks 7 percent brighter than it will in July, but its low winter elevation keeps things chilly in the Northern Hemisphere during the run - up to the premier space event of 2006: the return of the Stardust spacecraft after a six - year mission.

Earlier this year, the European Space Agency's COROT satellite found its first exoplanet, and in 2009, NASA's $ 550 million Kepler mission, the most sensitive planet seeker to date, is scheduled to blast off.

In 2011 during its penultimate mission the Space Shuttle Endeavour delivered three to the International Space Station (ISS), where they were mounted outside for three years as part of a materials - science experiment.

In Russell's proposal, Dawn used the same basic engine design as Deep Space 1 but needed a larger xenon fuel tank and other changes to ensure the system would survive its eight - year mission.

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

As the CEO and chief asteroid miner of Planetary Resources, Inc. in Redmond, Washington, the 42 - year - old aerospace engineer is looking to identify how the materials in near - Earth asteroids — namely metals and water — can be used to one day facilitate long - haul space missions and travel, and even save the Earth's resources from being overused.

The space telescope, which was launched in March and began its science mission in May, will spend more than three years observing a patch of 100,000 stars near the northern constellations Cygnus and Lyra.

The Pioneer 10 space probe — the farthest - traveling man - made object in the universe — came to the end of its mission this past year, after a quarter of a century of scientific exploration.

Within a few years, Lezius and his team aim to have a space - qualified frequency comb module that the space community can use in future missions and applications.

Dave Folta, a senior aerospace engineer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, says they are planning to use Howell's techniques — which he admiringly calls «highfalutin math» — for at least four missions over the next decade, including the Next Generation Space Telescope, scheduled to replace the Hubble Space Telescope in eight years.

«In the frame of such space missions as Cassini - Huygens, scientific rewards come indeed after many, many years... and disappointment too.

Two of the space shuttle's 123 flights have ended in fatal catastrophe; the Columbia disaster happened just a year after the previous Hubble repair mission.

The first U.S. production in nearly 30 years of a specialized fuel to power future deep space missions has been completed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee.

Working with a modest budget of less than $ 4 billion a year — a fourth of what NASA spends — the ESA has already made itself a powerhouse in unmanned space missions.

Spending nearly a year in space, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his misspace, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his misSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his mission.

The results of this NASA - funded study were published in Science on June 22, 2017 — a special time of the year for the IRIS mission, which celebrates its fourth anniversary in space on June 26.

With increased funding for planet hunters, NASA's plans to launch the $ 550 million planet - seeking Kepler mission in 2009, and the French national space agency's launch of the alien - Earth - hunting COROT late last year, the exosolar ranks should continue to grow.

«NASA's Fermi celebrates five years in space, enters extended mission.»

During its five - year primary mission, NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope has given astronomers an increasingly detailed portrait of the universe's most extraordinary phenomena, from giant black holes in the hearts of distant galaxies to thunderstorms on Earth.

«Over the next few years, major new astronomical facilities exploring other wavelengths will complement Fermi and give us our best look yet into the most powerful events in the universe,» said Julie McEnery, the mission's project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

``... NASA and NSF had to cancel their Antarctic - launched long - duration space science research missions for the year because NSF can not reopen facilities in time to get research balloons off on schedule.

The mission capped off a year that saw a series of noteworthy successes in China's blossoming space program, including the country's sixth manned space mission, the launch of a new space lab module and the inaugural use of a new spaceport.

After being grounded for two - and - a-half years following the destruction of Columbia, space shuttle Discovery returned to the skies in July 2005 on a mission to the ISS.

NASA's big plan for a follow - up space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, has survived a near - death experience and is now on track for launch in 3 years — but at a cost so steep, amid stagnating government funding, that it has squeezed out or delayed other missspace observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, has survived a near - death experience and is now on track for launch in 3 years — but at a cost so steep, amid stagnating government funding, that it has squeezed out or delayed other missSpace Telescope, has survived a near - death experience and is now on track for launch in 3 years — but at a cost so steep, amid stagnating government funding, that it has squeezed out or delayed other missions.

Juno is only the second space mission dedicated to the King of Planets, after the Galileo orbiter arrived in 1995 and spent eight years there.

In recent years, many small satellite missions have opted to use converted Russian ICBMs, such as Rokot and Dnepr, to get into space, but these launchers have sometimes had reliability problems.

Until a few years ago, astronomers did not expect to be able to see this far with the Hubble Space Telescope, but the observatory's new Wide Field Camera 3 — installed during a servicing mission in 2009 — has stunned researchers with its capabilities.

He says new space missions scheduled in the coming years should map the position and motions of more stars «with unprecedented precision,» and he predicts that the new data will support the paper's conclusions.

Southwood, then a space physicist at Imperial College in London, was at Kourou on June 4, 1996; he had been dreaming about the mission for 30 years.

In a May space shuttle mission to Hubble, spacewalking astronauts completed a slew of repairs and upgrades to the 19 - year - old observatory, including replacing the telescope's workhorse camera with an enhanced successor, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

Earlier this year the scientists of NASA's Kepler mission announced that their planet - hunting space telescope had identified more than 1,200 possible exoplanets (worlds orbiting stars other than our own sun) in its first few months on the job.

William Borucki, of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, has captured the astronomy prize for two achievements: conceiving the observational technique of transit photometry that raised the tantalizing prospect of sighting Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, and leading the 25 - year - long development of the Kepler mission, which in 2009 placed a telescope in space to make those observations.

Since detecting a transit is the first step in analyzing a planet's atmosphere, this success bodes well for characterizing the many small planets that upcoming space missions are expected to discover in the next few years.

The next time rocket engine No. 2059 fires for that length of time, it will be carrying humans on their first deep - space mission in more than 45 years.

WFIRST was the top - ranked big space mission in the 2010 decadal survey in astronomy and astrophysics, a list created by researchers to prioritize projects for the next ten years.

In more than 25 years of reporting on space missions I've had the privilege of joining in on some of the best «rides» into the solar system's depthIn more than 25 years of reporting on space missions I've had the privilege of joining in on some of the best «rides» into the solar system's depthin on some of the best «rides» into the solar system's depths.

Notably, the Deep Space Climate Observatory, an active mission launched in 2015 to provide planetwide observations of Earth that has long ties to former Vice President Al Gore, would be terminated before its 5 - year mission was up.

It delivered the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit in 1990, and three years later carried a repair mission that fixed the defects that initially gave Hubble blurry vision — one of many daring space resSpace Telescope to orbit in 1990, and three years later carried a repair mission that fixed the defects that initially gave Hubble blurry vision — one of many daring space resspace rescues.