Sentences with phrase «aboard space shuttle»

After beating fellow Springfield resident Barney for a spot aboard the space shuttle, Homer is launched into space with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

Eyes - On climbs aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, Visualized gets electrified and Nest's Matt Rogers tells all in the Q&A.

Garrett Reisman — Human Space Flight Past and Present: Lessons Learned About Inspiration and Determination Selected by NASA as a mission specialist astronaut in 1998, Garrett Reisman's first mission was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which brought him to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 95 - day mission.

Though the May 2009 visit to Hubble by astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis was the last scheduled servicing mission for the orbiting observatory (which is expected to remain in orbit until at least 2014), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has already collected galaxies of data from it.

In August 1984, President Ronald Reagan launched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Teacher - in - Space program with the announcement that a teacher would be one of the first «civilians» to travel aboard a space shuttle.

Flat Stanley look - alikes have even been photographed with Clint Eastwood on Oscar night, soared aboard a space shuttle, and visited heads of state around the globe.

The researchers at the German Aerospace Center now have additional B. subtilis samples to examine from the EXPOSE - R platform that returned to Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery on March 9, 2011.

A map of the Chicxulub crater made from data gathered aboard the space shuttle in 2003.

Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery install two technologically advanced instruments.

His first flight was aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1999 (STS - 103) on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

During my first spaceflight aboard Space Shuttle Columbia, I watched, incredulous, as Hurricane Emilia churned as a Category 5 storm.

Finally, in December 1993, seven men aboard the space shuttle Endeavour rocketed into space for the HST's first servicing mission.

This is Hubble's first picture of the entire nebula, taken to celebrate the anniversary of its launch — the space telescope blasted off aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.

It was in 1967 that launch pad 39A became the premier spot from which to send humans into space, whether to the moon atop a colossal Saturn V rocket, or into low Earth orbit aboard the space shuttle.

By TED TURVER Two years ago the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), the second of NASA's four planned orbiting observatories, was launched aboard the space shuttle Atlantis.

The mice studied spent 13.5 days aboard the space shuttle.

In a discovery with implications for long - term spaceflight and future missions to Mars, a researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has found that mice flown aboard the space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth with early signs of liver disease.

This little frog, floating weightlessly, was not photographed aboard the space shuttle but right here on Earth.

The concept started life in the late 1970s as an infrared observatory that could fly short stints aboard the space shuttle.

In 2010 and 2011, during the STS - 132 and STS - 135 missions aboard space shuttle Atlantis, astronauts in space and scientists on Earth performed nearly simultaneous parallel experiments; both teams cultured samples of P. aeruginosa bacteria using conditions that encouraged biofilm formation.

(McNair died in 1986 while working as a scientist - astronaut aboard the space shuttle Challenger.)

Soon, Conley secured a spot for her nematodes on STS - 107, aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

AiroCide technology was first launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia, mission STS - 73.

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, going on to provide countless scientific advances and incredible astronomical photos.

Thirsk visited the void twice, including 17 days as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1996, and six months aboard the International Space Station last year.

Flying aboard the space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour, Reilly amassed more than 853 hours in space and completed five spacewalks before his 2008 retirement from NASA.

Not exact matches

Women in Space profiles 23 pioneers, including Eileen Collins, the first woman to command the space shuttle; Peggy Whitson, who logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station; and Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and Space profiles 23 pioneers, including Eileen Collins, the first woman to command the space shuttle; Peggy Whitson, who logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station; and Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and space shuttle; Peggy Whitson, who logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station; and Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and Space Station; and Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and more.

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To develop KidsArm, SickKids partnered with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), the Canadian company that was behind the space shuttle's robotic arm and built the robotic system aboard the space station for the Canadian Space Agency (space shuttle's robotic arm and built the robotic system aboard the space station for the Canadian Space Agency (space station for the Canadian Space Agency (Space Agency (CSA).

Researchers tracked the sleep patterns of 85 crew members aboard the ISS and space shuttle and found that despite an official flight schedule mandating 8.5 hours of sleep per night, they rarely got more than five.

Following undocking, astronauts aboard the space station rotated their vehicle about 90 degrees to allow the shuttle astronauts to take detailed photos of the outpost from many angles to document the status of its exterior.

Space Shuttle Enterprise takes a trip up the Hudson River to its resting place aboard the USS Intrepid.

More than 30 percent of astronauts who returned from two - week space shuttle missions and 60 percent who spent six months aboard the International Space Station were diagnosed with eye probspace shuttle missions and 60 percent who spent six months aboard the International Space Station were diagnosed with eye probSpace Station were diagnosed with eye problems.

With a little more than a year to go before U.S. astronauts launch aboard a U.S. - built spacecraft, and from U.S. soil, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era, NASA has ordered its second Post-Certification Mission (PCM) from SpaceX.

They must do so because, following the 2011 retirement of the space shuttle program, the only way for Americans to travel into space is aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program will deliver U.S. astronauts into low - Earth orbit, from U.S. soil, and aboard a U.S. spacecraft, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era.

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery on April 24, Space Telescope was launched aboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery on April 24, space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.

Since the end of the Space Shuttle program, NASA astronauts and those of its international partners have launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the ISS aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft — at a cost of some $ 70 million or more per seat.

This week includes the 57th anniversary of the first human spaceflight — Yuri Gagarin's one - orbit ride aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and the 37th anniversary of the first U.S. space shuttle flight — STS - 1 on April 12, 1981, with John Young and Bob Crippen at the controls.

Ray Cronise, a former NASA scientist who spent 15 years overseeing experiments aboard shuttles at Marshall Space Flight Center, has been conducting experiments since 2008 to see if cold temperatures have an effect on the metabolism.

Enter Jerome (Jude Law, The Talented Mr. Ripley): a genetically superior medal - winning swimmer turned lame after a traffic accident, who donates his blood, urine, and other items used in validity tests so that Vincent can assume Jerome's identity long enough to fool the directors of space travel and get him aboard the shuttle of his dreams.

When a space shuttle appears, the space station crew must determine if those aboard are friend or foe.»

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In January 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all seven people aboard, including teacher - astronaut Christa McAuliffe.

A display of aurora australis, or southern lights, manifesting itself as a glowing loop, in an image of part of Earth's Southern Hemisphere taken from space by astronauts aboard the U.S. space shuttle orbiter Discovery on May 6, 1991.

In 2001, aboard Shuttle Endeavour, Colonel Hadfield performed two spacewalks — the first Canadian to do so — and in 2013 he was Commander of the International Space Station — the first only Canadian to ever command a spaceship — so far.

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