Sentences with phrase «as the astronauts saw»

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Americans saw as well as heard the president express his sorrow to the astronauts families, friends and colleagues.

The newscasters keep comparing the astronauts with Columbus, «but as far as Rabbit can see it's the exact opposite: Columbus flew blind and hit something, these guys see exactly where they're aiming and it's a big round nothing» (p. 28).

Having been away from the planet for a short time, the astronauts see Earth as precious, and they convey their affection for it well.

Eventually, as the black hole evaporated perhaps a trillion trillion trillion trillion years later (astronauts in thought experiments have remarkable longevity), the astronaut outside the black hole would see the Hawking radiation associated with the infalling particle.

Davis says she wouldn't want to see radiation - sensitive astronauts kept from future missions to the moon or Mars, but she would want those astronauts to be prepared to take special precautions to protect their brains, such as wearing extra shielding or not performing space walks.

So said US astronaut Don Pettit as he entered the Dragon space freighter after it docked with the International Space Station last week (see «Spectacular images show moment SpaceX Dragon docked»).

But there was nothing disappointing about what the astronauts saw as the spacecraft coasted around from the lunar far side on its fourth orbit: Earth, rising beyond the battered horizon, so tiny that the men could hide it behind an outstretched thumb.

As the inventor and a Principal Investigator, Waldie flew to the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, for the first on - orbit trial and said he was elated to see SkinSuit had finally been tested in space.

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.

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

He sees the construction and electrical cost of $ 750,000 for the robotic milking system — called the Lely Astronaut — as an investment in both a machine and reliable future labor.

Working then as a fusion physicist at the Draper Laboratory at MIT, he saw this achievement as just another step toward the goal that consumed him still: a career as an astronaut.

Iran and the United States don't see eye - to - eye on many issues, but both have viewed monkeys as good astronaut test subjects over the years.

A common theme was the Obama Administration's FY2013 budget request for the future of the human spaceflight program and what many see as a competition between commercial crew services to the International Space Station (ISS) and a NASA - developed system to take astronauts further into the solar system.

► An astronaut removes six large canisters of genetic research materials from a drifting space station with lights flashing and sirens blaring; a giant spiny rat chases her and pounds on the escape hatch window with paws and tentacles, cracking it (we can not see its face) as the escape pod launches and we see the space station explode into fireballs that fill the screen and soon after we see the cracked pod hatch window break apart and the pod explodes into chunks of flaming debris (the astronaut is certainly dead although we do not see her after the explosion).

We view the astronaut, Dave Bowman, traveling through a wormhole (time becomes warped), probably, into another dimension and we see him as he discovers a well - decorated bedroom suite, eventually staying there and growing old, quietly eating his meals; and, lastly, we see him in the bedroom.

► A space station drifts and as the camera cuts to the dimly lit interior, we see small fires and broken equipment floating as well as a close - up of a man's bloody face and forearm and an astronaut says through a headpiece, «The crew is dead.»

I've always noted that combination as a formula for disaster (see The American Astronaut) but Phillips did it well, with the help of a talented cast.

Yesterday we brought you the first batch of stills from Ridley Scott's new sci - fi The Martian starring Matt Damon, and now thanks to EW and People we've got even more stills from the film, which sees Damon as an astronaut stranded on his own on the surface of Mars... During a manned mission to -LSB-...]

Since she won't see him anymore, he disguises himself as an aw - shucks astronaut and sets out to woo her the old - fashioned way — without sex — hoping to write one of his scathing exposes on her.

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.

While there are some undeniably astonishing sequences — the indiscriminate sunlight chasing Capa and Kaneda on a space walk is as good an astronaut heart - thumper as you're likely to see — a third act twist might turn some off.

And, as we see in the sequence detailing Gus Grissom's troubled landing, the astronauts themselves are far from perfect.

I am originally from Ohio, as were astronauts Neil Armstrong and John Glenn, and we saw them as really one of our own.

Girls who do what boys have traditionally done, who become astronauts, scientists, firefighters, or soldiers, are doing things that almost everyone sees as «moving up.»

With the release of Toyota's first official Super Bowl commercial, we got to see Cuoco perform her role as wish granter to a tee, giving the Henderson family all that they're wishing for, including the dad who asked for the spare tire to be gone, the mother who wished for unlimited chocolates, the daughter who wished for animals to talk, the son who wished he was an astronaut, and the father who wished (again) for unlimited wishes... except that Genie Cuoco thought she heard something else.

With stunning Rainforest Mountains and their Volcanic Crater Lakes to the natural swimming holes and the Great Barrier Reef that the astronauts see from as far away as the Moon.

Long known by residents and visitors as one of the most spectacularly beautiful ecosystems in the world, the Belize Barrier Reef was recently seen from a brand new angle when NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, currently on assignment aboard the International Space Station, posted high - resolution photographs of the reef on his Twitter feed.

Love You to Bits sees you play as a young astronaut whose robot girlfriend gets blown to pieces before his eyes in a crash.

Astronauts speak of an experience of sublime wholeness when they exit Earth's atmosphere and see the fragility of the «pale blue dot» when it is understood as an object and the sphere wherein all of history and meaning has unfolded.

Am I the only one who has never particularly seen astronauts as heroes?

Himalayan glaciers, as seen in this image taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station, help replenish many of Asia's most important rivers.

President Obama also ended his speech with a call to recognize the sacred importance of protecting Earth by recalling the astonishment of the astronauts when they saw the Earth from outer space as they came around the moon for the first time.

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