Sentences with phrase «as a crew member on»

In 1992, she became the first African American woman to travel to space as a crew member on board the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

One was as an instructor of Latin ballroom dancing; another was as a crew member on a cargo ship.

Not exact matches

For instance, Robbins and Finley suggest various approaches for dealing with a «team jerk» (that is, a crew member with essential knowledge but no social skills), including ways to gently ease the offending party elsewhere: «Set him apart from the core team, as a valued resource member... Give him an office in a separate building, or on a separate continent, even.

Because those who fly on jet airplanes frequently face higher exposure to cosmic radiation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies airline crew members as radiation workers.

Pete went on to serve in the Navy as an award - winning aviator and instructor pilot, honing his leadership and decision - making skills as commander of a large multi-engine aircraft and 12 - member crew during the height of Cold War tensions.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Each member of the church is part of the work crew on God's construction site, and each person only grows into Christlikeness as they discover the ministry to which God has called them and start practicing it in their life.

If there was ever any doubt as to Ice - T's stance on food, the hip - hop icon cleared it up in the Body Count video «Institutionalized»: While taking a lunch break, he's accosted by a film crew member wearing a «Meat Is Murder» T - shirt.

Many members of this crew are in the Men's Final4 on Monday Night (and the Elite8 of the Summer Hoops League as well)..

Ben Stiller and members of his crew were spotted out and about in the rain in Plattsburgh yesterday as part of his work on the upcoming Showtime 8 - episode series, «Escape at Dannemora.»

When one adds the fact that these crew members are flown from their homes to the place where they join the ship and back home afterwards at the expense of the company — and are provided free accommodation and food whilst on board — the basic wage of $ 250 per month ends up as a very small proportion of the overall reward package.

Veteran astronaut Andy Thomas, a crew member on this year's inaugural flight of the reengineered space shuttle, says that stars from dry, unpolluted earthly locations look as good as or better than they do through the shuttle's glass view port.

Seidler and colleagues examined structural MRIs in 12 astronauts who spent two weeks as shuttle crew members, and 14 who spent six months on the International Space Station.

For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.

NASA announced that a crew member will be swung out within reach of the damaged panel on a 50 - foot boom attached to the space station's robotic arm as early as Saturday to attempt a fix, to reduce the risk of further damage that would require the panel to be jettisoned, thereby reducing the growing station's power supply.

Closer to home comes this ethereal image of the Southern Lights, as captured by a crew member of Expedition 52 on the International Space Station.

After our active two week rotation at the Mars Desert Research Station as Crew 160, I can confidently say that each member's point of view on what life on another planet would be like has been completely reformed.

The sun is captured in a «starburst» mode over Earth's horizon by one of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station, as the orbital outpost was above a point in southwestern Minnesota on May 21, 2013.

Everyone from Seth Rogen (also executive - producing) and Josh Hutcherson to Hannibal Buress and Zac Efron make appearances as actors and crew members on «The Room.»

As The Disaster Artist (both the book and the movie) details, he made all sorts of bizarre, incompetent decisions, like shooting his movie on 35 - millimeter and digital film simultaneously at prohibitive expense, building elaborate and pricey sets for locations he could have filmed on for free, and firing crew members without cause at the drop of a hat.

EXTRAS: There's a series of behind - the - scenes featurettes focused on different members of the cast and crew, as well as Q&A highlights with stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, director Todd Haynes and more.

While Aronofsky's insistence on explaining the movie to those mainstream audiences doesn't do it any great service, the film stands up on its own as something wonderfully unique and impassioned, readable from many different angles, with every cast member and crew department working at their highest level.

As higher - ups on the spaceship, they neither command the screen, nor the fellow crew members.

Following this uber - short Q&A session with the original «Scream» crew, four new cast members — Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, and Anthony Anderson — took their place on the panel to discuss joining the storied franchise after years of being exposed to the films as moviegoers.

Budgeted at around $ 111 million — or $ 102 million more than the first «Alien» — the new installment stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride and Billy Crudup as real and synthetic crew members on the titular spacecraft.

It's actually astonishing that we not only have great actors nailing tricky scenes, and really some stunning, winding camerawork to go with it, but such things as the weaving in of special effects and the utter lack of capturing any of the off - screen crew members who surely must have been around helping with the shoot (that we never see anything we shouldn't in any of the many on - screen mirrors is quite astonishing) only makes this one of the more brilliant efforts at shooting a seamless film since the first in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope.

Life stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya, and Hiroyuki Sanada and it revolves around the six - member crew of the International Space Station as they come into contact with the very first evidence of biological life on Mars: a small, single - celled organism.

Headlining the long list of bonus material are two audio commentaries — a Blu - ray exclusive picture - in - picture track with director Martin Campbell and producer Michael G. Wilson, and another track with producers Wilson and Barbara Broccoli serving as moderators to a cast of various crew members that worked on the film.

This will give the other crew members a chance to focus on fewer things, as well.

24 and Devil actor Logan Marshall - Green has reportedly been cast as Holloway, a crew member on the ship who is also a love interest for star Noomi Rapace's Elizabeth Shaw.

As the shoot wears on, members of the crew exhibit increasingly strange behavior leaving those still sane realizing they need to get out of this place before they too succumb to the building's infectious hold.

On his first Weibo postings, Tony indicated that currently, in addition to being busy with the filming of The Grand Master, he has also been working on a commercial — in his posting, he uploaded a picture of himself with cinematographer Xia Yong Kang as well as other crew memberOn his first Weibo postings, Tony indicated that currently, in addition to being busy with the filming of The Grand Master, he has also been working on a commercial — in his posting, he uploaded a picture of himself with cinematographer Xia Yong Kang as well as other crew memberon a commercial — in his posting, he uploaded a picture of himself with cinematographer Xia Yong Kang as well as other crew members.

ROADIES STUDIO: TEAM: Cameron Crowe (w, d, ep), Winnie Holzman (ep), J.J. Abrams (ep) LOGLINE: The day - to - day life of a successful rock tour as seen through the eyes of the crew members who help get the show on the road.

During Star Wars Celebration last month it was revealed Rogue One will focus on a crew who set out to steal the Death Star plans, so it seems likely Luna could be playing a central member of rebel soldier Felicity Jones» gang — regardless, I'm just excited to see the first Star Wars Anthology film is continuing Force Awakens «trend of diversifying the franchise and casting incredible actors of color (crossing all my appendages that Rogue One actually delivers on its rumored LGBTQ + representation as well).

The studios send the film to NASA Mission Control in Houston and then the team there digitally beams it 220 miles away to the six crew members stationed there working on Expedition 31 as well as 2 NASA astronauts, one person from the European Space Agency and three Russian Cosmonauts.

As with Prometheus, the crew members are also spectacularly unqualified as explorers, prone to making stupid decisions as though they have never received any survival training at all back on EartAs with Prometheus, the crew members are also spectacularly unqualified as explorers, prone to making stupid decisions as though they have never received any survival training at all back on Eartas explorers, prone to making stupid decisions as though they have never received any survival training at all back on Eartas though they have never received any survival training at all back on Earth.

Ant - Man star Michael Pena jokes about his disappointment after TV mogul - turned - actress Oprah Winfrey decided to present each of her castmates and crew members on new film A Wrinkle In Time with a top - of - the - line juice machine as a wrap gift.

Matt Damon is starring as an astronaut who gets left behind on Mars when the other members of his space - crew are forced to leave the planet during a space - storm.

There's an observation deck on Icarus II from which the crew members can stare at the sun through a heavily - filtered screen, and at times Boyle invites us to gaze upon this burning star in a similarly awed manner, pulling off some wonderful visual coups such as the sun being reflected off the giant shield which sits at the front of the ship.

The show follows two central characters; 13 - year - old Ra'Neil (Malcolm Kamulete) who is trying to navigate the moral and physical perils of life as a teenager on the estate, and twenty - something Dushane (ex-So Solid Crew member Ashley Walters) a street - level drug dealer who is attempting to rise to the position of top boy on the estate.

Whether he's burning through dozens of flubbed takes in front of an exhausted crew (including Seth Rogen as the exasperated script supervisor), insisting on filming a sex scene with his leading lady (Ari Graynor) with all of the members of the cast present, or getting a personal toilet installed in the middle of the soundstage, Wiseau struts his private despotate of fake brick walls like a perfect parody of directorial hubris.

There's the earnest Coast Guard sailor (Chris Pine as Bernie Webber) who was at the center of a past nautical tragedy and must now redeem himself by saving those aboard the tanker; the gruff officer (Eric Bana) who barks out one dubious command after another; the obnoxious crew member whose ceaseless complaining grows (unintentionally) comical; the all - around nice guy who, because he's the gosh - darn nicest guy around, will invariably be subjected to the most gruesome fate; and so on.

«Paying Respect: Remembering Rodney Dangerfield» (10:00) is a decent little retrospective on Back to School's leading man, which provides personal and professional comments from Dangerfield's widow Joan and Easy Money co-star Jeffrey Jones as well as Ramis and other School crew members.

William Hurt, who is set to play Gregg Allman in the upcoming biopic Midnight Rider, provided new details on the accident that killed a crew member as the film was shooting in Georgia last month.

«Their Finest» is small - scale, as WWII movies go, but that gives you time to appreciate its characters (including Bill Nighy as a demanding aging actor with hidden softness) and the moments it captures related to the everyday horrors of war — the inconvenience / tragedy of crew members not showing up on set because they were killed in the Blitz, for example.

Crew members on the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long scanned the southern Indian Ocean on Wednesday as they assisted in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Cosby (Meteor Man, Uptown Saturday Night) plays Mother, the veteran crew member, who is as jaded as they come, but is a good influence on how to get the job done with the less careful drivers.

Well, perhaps you were distracted for the 1.5 seconds where their relationship is acknowledged, but, yes, the crew members played by Demian Bichir and Nathaniel Dean are indeed married (as are all the characters we meet on the Covenant).

Notwithstanding the immortal Ms. Clark, the woman on Skype, and assorted crew members such as production designer Anna Georgiadou, Tsangari herself is, properly speaking, the only consistent female presence on this consistently entertaining and revealing voyage.

Written by Deadpool and Zombieland scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film revolves around the six - member crew of the International Space Station as they come into contact with the very first evidence of biological life on Mars — a small, single - celled organism.