Sentences with phrase «as astronauts begin»

And as astronauts begin to spend much more time in space, their survival may depend on how well we can predict the sun's violent episodes.

Not exact matches

The longest - serving astronaut in the space program, Young's career began as a Navy test flier.

The research began a decade ago, when astronauts placed about 2000 seeds from tobacco plants and a flowering plant known as Arabidopsis thaliana on the outside of the International Space Station.

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.

As ESA engineers begin building a giant cargo vessel for large loads going to and from the space station, they are also looking at how it can be adapted to carry astronauts and become Europe's first manned spacecraft.

It's just another day of astronaut school at Johnson Space Center, the 1,620 - acre complex south of Houston that has served as NASA's main training facility and launch center since the beginning of America's space program.

It would be shameful for me to claim to have experienced the kind of «overview effect» real astronauts talk about when they've been to space, the way they begin to see our planet as more precious and fragile and realize that we're all on it together.

[Editors» Note: As a result of this work, NASA will begin implementing a new lighting system onboard the International Space Station next year, designed to improve astronauts» sleep and waking performance.]

The company will begin flying astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA as soon as 2017.

The company will begin flying astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA as soon as 2017.

The series begins as «private sector» astronaut Molly Watts (Halle Berry) returns home following a 13 - month - long solo space voyage.

Liev Schreiber leads the doomed astronauts, as virus begins to take control of them.

Space shuttles lifting off and landing on run - ways ~ space probes to distant worlds ~ and an international space station ~ all had their beginning with brave astronauts such as John Glenn.

You play as an astronaut named Lon, who begins making his descent onto an Earth - like planet.

The game begins with you as an astronaut, your spaceship crashing onto a Pirate Island after being hit by several meteorites.

Rose and Christopher Y. Lew, the Whitney's associate curator who gave the young artist her first New York solo show, walked in at the end of her 10 - minute video and chattered over until the film looped back to the beginning: «When I first came back to Earth after 128 days in space,» the astronaut David Wolf intoned while pools of opalescent fluid shifted onscreen as if agitating a new cosmos.

Through the collaborative project Lost Astronaut, presented for Performa 09, Framis continues her ongoing exploration of new ways of living together that she begin in projects such as Guantanamo Museum and New Buildings for China (both 2008).

As put by geophysicist Philip Chapman, a former NASA astronaut - scientist and former president of the National Space Society, «It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age.»

(If so, you may be keeping illustrious company, as apparently 11 of the 12 astronauts who walked on the moon began their adventures as scouts.)