Sentences with phrase «as an astronaut by»

Selected as an astronaut by NASA in January 1990, Wisoff is a veteran of four space shuttle flights.

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As part of the series — produced by Darren Aronofsky and narrated by superstar Will Smith — several astronauts give personal anecdotes and perspectives about the planet based on a place few humans who have actually visited outer space.

The larger Falcon 9 is designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and has been singled out by President Obama as a possible successor to the Space Shuttle program.

The photo depicted astronaut Buzz Aldrin as photographed by fellow traveller Neil Armstrong, and the issue sold 8,527,600 copies, which was actually down from the previous week, when 8,666,219 sold.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

«The Martian» stars Matt Damon as astronaut / botanist Mark Watney, who gets left behind on Mars after being presumed dead by his team.

Along with a letter that pointed to some online links about space camp, the astronaut program and resources to elementary students, NASA also sent Dexter some really cool pictures of the Red Planet and Mars Curiosity Rover, as well as a sticker that's a replica of the mission patch worn by the astronauts.

Space suits will largely be worn by astronauts for a long time coming, so Final Frontier Design's products will have a second life on Earth — as gear for tech - savvy, fashionable New Yorkers.

The next step for human space exploration after the International Space Station is to send astronauts on a Near Earth Asteroid by 2025, as planned by NASA.

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

Once on that lowland, the bergs are carried along by the slow - flowing nitrogen ice, often ending up clumped together in large groups (such as the 60 - km - long Challenger Colles, upper right, a feature whose name honors the seven astronauts who died onboard space shuttle Challenger in 1986).

There are still plenty of problems to tackle — such as how to keep the antennas powered during the two - week - long lunar nights — but MIT team leader Jacqueline Hewitt is confident, as the group heads to Australia for testing, that by 2025 U.S. astronauts could begin building the very first lunar observatory.

By 2024, NASA experts expect to have enough infrastructure to support a permanent human presence with four astronauts rotating every six months, the same length of a stay as on the International Space Station.

The data provide critical information on the radiation hazards that will be faced by astronauts on extended missions to deep space such as those to Mars.

Previous research has tested how well radiation - exposed rats do with basic learning tasks and mazes, but this new Johns Hopkins study focused on tests that closely mimic the self - tests of fitness for duty currently used by astronauts on the International Space Station prior to mission - critical events such as space walks.

And in the institute's 140 - year history, these corridors have been traversed by 59 Nobel laureates and 30 astronauts, as well as Dr. Dolittle author Hugh Lofting, architect I. M. Pei, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, inventor Raymond Kurzweil, Ford Motor Company honcho William C. Ford, suspected Al Qaeda agent Aafia Siddiqui, and NPR's «Car Talk» guys.

In a new paper in Scientific Reports, FSU Dean of the College of Human Sciences and Professor Michael Delp explains that the men who traveled into deep space as part of the lunar missions were exposed to levels of galactic cosmic radiation that have not been experienced by any other astronauts or cosmonauts.

So an astronaut traveling at the speed of light does age more slowly — as seen by some stationary observer.

Spacecraft in low - Earth orbit, such as the shuttle and the International Space Station, are protected from these particles by the Earth's magnetic field, but astronauts travelling farther afield would not benefit from this protection.

The government's enthusiasm for human spaceflight was no doubt boosted by the selection of Tim Peake, a British Army helicopter pilot, as an ESA astronaut.

As NASA gets to work on the Constellation Program — the space agency's next not - so - small - step for mankind that hopes to put U.S. astronauts back on the moon by 2020 — the European Space Agency (ESA) has set its sights on learning more about our own planet.

Long acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) such as IUDs and subdermal (beneath - the - skin) implants are also safe and reliable methods for this purpose but as of yet, have not been extensively used by astronauts.

During test jumps, the robot briefly experienced accelerations of about 13.8 g — more than three times those stomached by astronauts on the space shuttle as they were boosted into orbit.

The belts, consisting of high - energy electrons and protons discovered above Earth's upper atmosphere in 1958 by James Van Allen, can pose a significant hazard to satellites and spacecraft, as well to astronauts performing activities outside a spacecraft.

A better understanding of how these senses contribute to our perception of orientation could help astronauts train to overcome space sickness — which arises as the vestibular system adapts to low gravity — by paying more attention to visual information and the body's position, says Barnett - Cowan.

You know, for instance around Earth, you can think of gravity as forming a kind of a well around Earth, which causes the things that pass near Earth, the moon I would say, which is orbiting on its path, to stay within the vicinity because it falls into that gravity well, metaphorically speaking; and in likewise the same way this astronaut that is fictitiously described by our good mathematics professor takes a journey through curved spacetime.

Most gripping is a description of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as viewed by astronaut Frank Culbertson from the International Space Station.

But his career as an astronaut was ruined and he was shunned by peers.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden released this statement: «Leonard Nimoy was an inspiration to multiple generations of engineers, scientists, astronauts, and other space explorers... As Mr. Spock, he made science and technology important to the story, while never failing to show, by example, that it is the people around us who matter most.

NASA is exploring the use of Microsoft's HoloLens by astronauts on the International Space Station; not for gaming, as is a popular use here on Earth, but to provide tech support.

NASA is working to get astronauts to the vicinity of the Red Planet sometime in the 2030s, as directed by former President Barack Obama in 2010.

As for NASA's plans, delivering astronauts to Mars by the 2030s continues to be its long - term goal, and Congress will fund the completion of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule for that mission.

The SWAP instrument tracked interstellar pickup ions — ions created as the materials turns ionized and is «picked up» by solar wind — and speculated that they could actually be the seeds of highly energetic particles dubbed as anomalous cosmic rays, which can be a potential radiation threat to astronauts.

The CST - 100 has been described by Boeing as being able to carry up to seven astronauts to orbit, or a mix of cargo and astronauts to the ISS.

It was in 2010 that President Obama cancelled the George W. Bush Administration's Constellation program to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2020 as a steppingstone to Mars.

The Matiss experiment, as part of the Proxima Mission sponsored by France's CNES space agency [Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES); National Centre for Space Studies (CNES)-RSB-, is based on four identical plaques that European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the 10th French citizen to go into space, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month mission.

Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).

Whole Body Vibration (WBV) has been around in various forms for over 150 years and Sonic Whole Body Vibration has been utilized for years by astronauts as a means of preventing bone and muscle loss in a zero gravity environment.

As a confirmation of the validity of this form of cardiovascular conditioning, extensive research by NASA in the early 1980's led to the conclusion that infrared stimulation of cardiovascular function would be the ideal way to maintain cardiovascular conditioning in American astronauts during long space flights.

Gravity does just that, casting George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts stranded in zero - g when their ride is wrecked by satellite debris.

Matt Damon stars as Astronaut Mark Watney, who is presumed dead after a violent storm and left behind by his crew while on Mars.

The rapidly - growing specimen is eventually named Calvin by a group of American schoolchildren live - chatting with the astronauts from Earth; fitting his hand into flexible gloves that allow him to reach into its isolation tank, a smitten Derry interacts with it as if it's a new kitten.

Adapted by Drew Goddard from Andy Weir's bestseller, The Martian features Damon as NASA astronaut Mark Watney, seriously injured and thought dead by his crewmates on Mars during a huge storm that forced them to evacuate.

Screen Daily have reported that Pattinson will play an astronaut in Denis» as yet unnamed English - language sci - fi co-written by author, Zadie Smith.

Directed with style by D.J. Caruso as the follow - up to his stylish tweaker noir The Salton Sea, the picture has a way with tension and the jump scare — at least until a Fatal Attraction / Astronaut's Wife conclusion proves again that the inoperable tumor of modern mainstream cinema is the ability to end.

Based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, Scott's latest science fiction film sees Damon as Mark Watney, an astronaut who's presumed dead and left behind by his crew on the red planet.

So the heart of «Interstellar» was written as being the relationship between Matthew McConaughey's lonely astronaut and his daughter, but as much wallop as that sometimes packs, for our money it's rivalled by the remarkable turn by David Gyasi as Romilly.

The performances are solid with most of the weight of the film on McConaughey, but nice turns by Anne Hathaway, Wes Bentley, David Gyasi, and Matt Damon as astronauts, Michael Caine and John Lithgow as a scientist and Cooper's grandfather respectively, and Jessica Chastain and Casey Affleck as Cooper's grown children.

This first viral video shot by astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon)-- for Ridley Scott's science fiction action adventure — introduces us to crew of the Hermes as they head to the red planet.

She is recruited by SpaceCorp along with other ladies as a potential companion to a male astronaut.