Sentences with phrase «abort test»

A few ferries to the ISS with just cargo; a launch pad abort test; more?

This vehicle will be used for a pad abort test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

In October 2016, citing development and production concerns, Boeing spokesman William Barksdale stated that the company would delay its pad abort test from October 2017 to January 2018, with the uncrewed test flight moving from December 2017 to June of 2018.

SpaceX is planning to conduct a much - anticipated pad abort test on May 5, 2015 as part of its development of a crew version of its Dragon capsule.

In that Space News interview, Ferguson said that the Starliner testing schedule includes a pad abort test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in the second quarter of 2018, this would be followed by an uncrewed orbital test flight, which is currently slated to take place in the third quarter of 2018.

Not exact matches

Prenatal testing of other characteristics means that parents can now abort a baby that does not meet their specifications and try again.

Indeed, he seems to regard my suggestion that a pregnant woman contemplating an abortion be required to examine photographs of the fetus corresponding to the estimated age of her fetus as a practical step forward over his proposal that, first, every woman contemplating an abortion be given a pregnancy test and, second, every fetus aborted alive be sustained in that life.

It is stunning, for example, to read firsthand accounts of socially conservative Christians» ready willingness to abort babies that test positive for cystic fibrosis.

These advancements in early diagnostic testing should be used to prepare and educate parents, not to guilt them into aborting their child in an attempt to make a «perfect» world full of «perfect» people.

And women are allowed to abort a fetus that is proved by in utero tests to have a genetic disease.

Launch proceeded anyway because there were automatic abort sequences for every problem that engineers had identified during testing «but not for this,» because no one had seen it before, Musk says.

«There are diagnostic tests for some of these kinds of pathologies that can be performed during pregnancy, but other than early detection, the expectant parents are limited to two choices, either to abort or to continue with the pregnancy, being fully aware of the outcome,» explains the North American scientist Travis Stracker.

In these cases, parents may choose to abort the pregnancy or undergo further, invasive testing, which carries a small risk of miscarriage.

THE MOMENT: The launch abort motor for the Orion space capsule spews 100 - foot flames from its four exhaust nozzles in a successful test firing in Promontory, Utah.

A similar laissez - faire approach to prenatal whole - genome testing, which might involve the decision to abort a pregnancy based on a personal and possibly inaccurate interpretation of dense and confusing genetic data, could portend tragedy.

«There are many disorders we want to test for that don't involve a question of aborting the fetus, just providing the baby with what it needs right when it's born,» Quake says.

For example, the couple can not have «reasonable alternatives,» such as the option of selecting healthy embryos for in vitro fertilization (IVF) or using prenatal testing and aborting a fetus with the disease.

In some cases, parents may choose to terminate or abort a pregnancy after learning the results of these tests.

The study depicted in Experimenter (Grade: B --RRB- is just as controversial but less theatrical: A decade before Stanford started and aborted its own little autopsy of human behavior, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard, eventually rocking some unflattering facial hair) tested people's willingness to obey authority by instructing volunteers to administer electric shocks to strangers in another room.

Classrooms or schools have been used by Len Jason and his colleagues on tests of programs for transfer students, in Leanard Bickman's admirable but aborted trials on teacher - incentive programs in Tennessee, and in Sheppard Kellam's Baltimore studies on mental health and children's achievement.

Watson even urged woman to be given carte blanche to abort babies should tests determine that they are likely to be homosexual, despite the vast body of evidence indicating homosexuality is a result of environment rather than genetic code.