Sentences with phrase «astronaut left earth»
When an astronaut leaves Earth, his or her body is operating on a 24 - hour light / dark cycle, but the space station orbits Earth every 90 minutes, and astronauts see the sun rise and set each time.
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In a statement, President Obama said of the astronaut and public servant, «John always had the right stuff, inspiring generations of scientists, engineers and astronauts who will take us to Mars and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay... The last of America's first astronauts has left us, but propelled by their example we know that our future here on Earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens.
«The last of America's first astronauts has left us, but propelled by their example we know that our future here on Earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens.
NASA also has its own spacecraft, Orion, being built by Lockheed Martin, which aims to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo astronauts last left for the moon in 1972.
13 Laser beams bounced off mirrors left behind by Apollo astronauts show that the moon is moving 1.5 inches farther from Earth each year.
Apollo lunar astronauts are four to five times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than astronauts who never left Earth's orbit or who never flew at all, according to a study published in Scientific Reports today that considered about 100 astronauts, seven of them Apollo.
When three U.S. astronauts became the first humans to leave Earth's gravity field, some NASA experts gave them a 50 - 50 chance of making it home alive
In 2014, the world looked on eagerly as a probe landed on a comet for the first time, as a test flight brought humans one step closer to Mars, and as astronauts tweeted home striking images from space, giving those left behind on Earth the sense that they were along for the ride.
«Gravity «Synopsis: Astronauts attempt to return to earth after debris crashes into their space shuttle, leaving them drifting and alone in space.
But when a dust storm catches his crew off guard, he ends up left behind on the planet, with no way to signal his astronaut colleagues, or mission control back on Earth, that he's still alive.
Adapted from Andy Weir's novel, Drew Goddard's nimble script now moves between three points of action: Watney's efforts on Mars to feed himself and survive the long haul; Earth, where NASA eventually realise they have left a man behind and try to devise a rescue plan; and the space ship that is now returning to Earth, on which Watney's fellow astronauts are oblivious of his fate.
«Gravity» After a summer in which one would - be blockbuster after another failed to inspire much enthusiasm, moviegoers were starving for something that reminded them of the genuine sense of magic that the cinema could inspire in the right hands and they got it with Cuaron's visually stunning and emotionally gripping thriller about a space mission that goes horribly wrong and leaves two astronauts (Sandra Bullock and George Clooney) floating in the cosmos with little chance of returning to Earth.
Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Donald Glover, Mackenzie Davis, and Chiwetel Ejiofor co-star in the movie based on the best - selling book about a mission to Mars that goes wrong when an astronaut is left behind, and must fight to live as a rescue mission is launched from Earth.
But instead of going full crazy and making life difficult for the team that finds him, in «The Martian,» the astronaut is genuinely trying to survive and make it back to Earth safe and alive, after he's left alone on Mars.
The story follows an astronaut who is left stranded on a Martian colony and struggles to survive, while back on Earth, NASA tries to mount a rescue mission.
Left on Earth like all women who were never part of the moon race, she settles in at her «BaseCamp» (APF LAB, located at 15 Wooster Street), where she will live for two weeks wearing a customized astronaut suit, residing among drawings and prototypes that aim to both parody and make a serious claim for women's presence on the moon.