Sentences with phrase «as flight director»

LORETTA WHITESIDES has over five hours of weightless time in a 727 aircraft as a Flight Director for Zero - G Corporation.

But in the three - and - a-half years since then, Planetary Resources has made significant progress towards developing and testing the technology needed to make its dream become a reality, according to Lewicki, who served as flight director for NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, and surface mission manager for the Phoenix Mars Lander.

He spent the next 10 years at JPL, participating in assembly, test, and launch operations for Mars missions and acting as flight director for Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity and surface mission manager for Mars lander Phoenix.

Not exact matches

That can work in the Red's favor if a director wants an edgy, harsher look, as appears to have been the case for Soderbergh's recent anxiety - soaked Side Effects or Robert Zemeckis's hard - hitting Flight — both filmed with Red cameras.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

Board member Merrill «Pete» Miller, for example, the chief executive of National Oilwell Varco and Chesapeake's lead independent director, took $ 160,000 in free personal flights — twice as much as he spent on business travel.

As you are likely aware, some are pushing for these bills to include components that would roll back some of the progress we've made relative to flight safety after the crash of Flight 3407,» Higgins Communications Director Theresa Kennedyflight safety after the crash of Flight 3407,» Higgins Communications Director Theresa KennedyFlight 3407,» Higgins Communications Director Theresa Kennedy said.

I asked Astorino and Jindal about Governor Cuomo's statement today that only the federal government can ban flights from West African countries, not the New York and New Jersey governors as Astorino and others have demanded, and Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye's statement that no such direct flights arrive at Newark or JFK.

North Country Honor Flight Director Barrie Finnegan lead a special ceremony remembering the lives lost as part of the Sept. 11 attacks.

«There weren't any drone collisions until now, and when you consider how many flights there are, I think it confirms my suspicion that there is not this insane risk of planes going down regularly as sometimes the media had us fear would happen,» says Mykel Kochenderfer, an aeronautics engineer and director of the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.

«Personally, I feel a great sense of honor and pride at being able to serve as a shuttle flight director,» Alibaruho said.

Other findings were that heart rate and the weight loss on early space flight missions related more to time spent in a space suit, as opposed to time spent in weightlessness,» said Wotring, who also is chief scientist and deputy director of the Translational Research Institute for Space Health.

David Korth (second from right) served as ISS Flight Director in Mission Control during EVA - 23.

He also worked as Program Manager and Associate Director for Flight Programs at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Per Deadline, Bloodline «s Kyle Chandler will star as astronaut Deke Slayton, who was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and later became NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations.

Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton, as Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise respectively are very good in their roles, as is Ed Harris as the Apollo 13 Flight Director, Gene Kranz.

When we exclude «Flying Monkeys,» it's about as impressive a trio of directors you could ask for when kicking off a career, and given the quality of that first performance, they're unlikely to be the last top - flight filmmakers wanting to work with Monroe.

In our conversation he talks about why he likes working on stage and screen projects with the film's writer - director Martin McDonagh as well as several other top - flight helmers he has acted for in the past including George Clooney — with whom he says he grew close to over the course of two years he spent with him on Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind in which Rockwell played Chuck Barris, the game show host who claimed he was a CIA agent.

One of the most consistent performers in cinema, Washington has won the Black Reel as a Producer for Outstanding Motion Picture for Antwone Fisher (2002), Outstanding Director, Antwone Fisher (2002), and four times for Outstanding Actor in Flight (2012), Training Day (2001), Remember the Titans (2000), and The Hurricane (1999).

Greta Gerwig hit the stratosphere with Lady Bird, her first flight as a solo writer / director.

As you have probably heard, the movie is being written by Segel and his Forgetting Sarah Marshall collaborator Nicholas Stoller, while James Bobin (Flight of the Conchords, Da Ali G Show) is the man who will actually be in the director's chair.

The Wind Rises is an easy recommendation, as Miyazaki caps his career with a straightforward tale which has much going on under the surface touching on various themes the director returns to once more including flight, love, and dreams.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is about to land in theaters after a highly - publicized and turbulent flight, and if you'll allow me to belabor the metaphor, it sounds as if director Ron Howard managed to pull this particular spaceship out of a potentially disastrous nosedive and smooth things out in a satisfying way.

The music he created as the soundtrack to the Back to the Future trilogy remains, quite possibly, my favorite score ever set to film, while later works included the synth - heavy Flight of the Navigator, the sentimentalism of Forrest Gump & Cast Away (both part of his continued collaboration with Future director Robert Zemeckis) and more recently, heroic themes composed for Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers and the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War.

Neruda Directed by Pablo Larraín Chile / Argentina / France / Spain, 2016, 107m Spanish and French with English subtitles Pablo Larraín's exciting, surprising, and colorful new film is not a biopic but, as the director himself puts it, a «Nerudean» portrait of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's years of flight and exile after his 1948 denunciation of his government's leadership.

Indeed, directors Jemaine Clement (Flight Of The Conchords) and Taika Waititi (Eagle Vs. Shark, Boy) originally made Shadows as a short nearly a decade ago, before their respective careers had taken off.

Taika Waititi a.k.a. Taika Cohen, the New Zealand - born director whose credits also include the popular HBO comedy series «Flight of the Conchords» as well as «The Inbetweeners,» beat out Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer for the Thor: Ragnarok gig, while Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball) and Rob Letterman (Goosebumps) were the other finalists.

Chinese writer - director Hou Hsiao - Hsien is a Cannes regular, and films such as «The Puppetmaster» and «Flight of the Red Balloon» have won major awards at international festivals including Venice and Berlin.

Members of the press were introduced to Stan, Davis and JPC director Dr. Ellen Ochoa as she moderated an interview with the Hollywood actors and their mirrored counterparts Col. Michael S. Hopkins (USAF), NASA Astronaut and Ms. Pooja Jesrani, ISS Flight Controller (ADCO).

Jemaine Clement is best known as half of the Flight of the Conchords team, while Taika Waititi has worked as a writer and director on that show.

Ms. Roat served 10 years at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) joining in June 2004, first serving at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), where she was Deputy Director, Technology Development, 2005 - 2006, for TSA's Secure Flight Program, then as the Program Manager for the Fraud Detection and National Security System, and then Chief of Staff, Office of Information Technology (OIT), within the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, where she managed OIT operations and administration, in addition to holding responsibility as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with oversight of all aspects of USCIS» Information Security Program.

His dedication to his work shows in many ways including his service as the chairman for the ASTM F38 - 02 Subcommittee on UAS Flight Operations and in his a nationally elected position on the Board of Directors for the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), the world's largest association for unmanned systems.

As the daughter of a flight school director, she has been flying since she was 12, and after three months with ATA, she can deliver new and repaired Spitfire fighter planes to airfields without batting an eyelash.»

Hervé Pierret, Air Corsica managing director: «We expect that these new routes will not take long to become a firm favourite as an easily accessible and affordable destination, we believe there is real demand for these flights from London Stansted to Corsica.

Henk Graaff, managing director of destination management company SW Africa, said the new flight is fantastic news for Kenya as well as for the entire East African region and the continent.

Fernanda Toro, director of in - flight experience at LATAM Airlines Group, commented: «It is with great pride that we receive this important recognition from the World Travel Awards for the second year in a row as the Leading Airline in South America.

Director commercial of Garuda Indonesia, Handayani, explained that the airline is increasing flight frequency on the Jakarta - Amsterdam route to keep up with high travel demands to Europe, as well as to accommodate increasing traffic between Indonesia and countries in Europe.

Caroline Brown, commercial director for Shearings said: «At the moment customers are looking for peace of mind when booking their break, as they don't want the disappointment of cancelled flights and potentially missing out on their holiday.

Steve Norris, corporate managing director, FCTG, said: «As the flagship corporate travel division of Flight Centre Travel Group, FCM operates in more than 90 countries in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Francois Bourienne, Commercial Director at Glasgow Airport, said: «As expected, there has been huge demand for Jet2.com's flights since its arrival at Glasgow Airport earlier this year and we're delighted it has responded by launching five new routes.

Stephen Turner, commercial director for Manchester Airport, said: «I'm delighted that Manchester Airport has been chosen by Shaheen Air as they resume flights into the UK.

His most recent position at Amadeus was as programme director responsible for leading the implementation of an Amadeus - based GDS solution to Flight Centre's multiple brands in eleven markets.

Steve Norris, corporate managing director, Flight Centre Travel Group, commented: «We are excited to welcome Michel on board as corporate CTO.

Aerolineas Argentinas, the national airline of Argentina, has announced the appointment of Flight Directors as its new General Sales Agent for United Kingdom & Ireland, with the objective of strengthening its presence and increasing its market share in this important offline market.

«As we begin another summer operating direct flights to Majorca, we expect a record number of clients to take advantage of the stress - free two hour flight and avoid the hassle and lengthy waiting times of travelling via the UK», said Robert Mackenzie, Managing Director of C.I. Travel Group.

Simon Eastburn, airline business development director at Heathrow, said: «As ski season approaches, we're delighted to welcome this new flight to Salzburg with Eurowings, an exciting winter destination for passengers looking for a winter holiday.»

World Travel Market London senior director Simon Press said: «Whatever one thinks of his politics, Boris Johnson comes across as an affable type who would be fun to talk to on a flight, while for those interested in a more serious conversation Theresa May or Hillary Clinton get the nod.»

As Garage director Anton Belov tells it, the idea spun out of conversation with the museum's chief curator, Kate Fowle, who was contemplating a trip to Vladivostok, not realizing it was a nine - hour flight.

And McPheters previously worked as director of business development at Flight Club, another vaunted retailer of vintage like - new sneakers.