Sentences with phrase «astronaut space walking»

Instead, it shows scenes such as a fighter pilot pulling extreme G - forces, a skydiver gliding down from a high altitude, an astronaut space walking, volcanoes exploding, and divers swimming with sharks.

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Astronauts are a popular choice for children this year, according to Angel, who said this has a lot to do with Tim Peake becoming the first British astronaut to walk in space.

But she followed her heart and eventually became a NASA astronaut and the first woman to walk in space!

Depending on how it's processed, the plastic can be used to wrap a sandwich or tether an astronaut during a walk in deep space.

Sullivan was one of the first six women selected to join the NASA astronaut corps in 1978 and was the first American woman to walk in space.

And when I was reading it, I was thinking about, I had heard an astronaut interviewed once, who had done a space walk, and he was asked, what did you think of when you were on the space walk, outside the capsule, looking at the planet and universe?

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 wSpace Station prior to mission - critical events such as space wspace walks.

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.

The findings have implications for understanding and better forecasting the arrival of energetic electrons from space, which can damage satellites and threaten the health of space - walking astronauts, said Li.

But protecting humans in space may be the greatest benefit, says solar physicist William Wagner of NASA, especially with astronauts due to spend thousands of hours on space walks during the next decade to assemble the international space station.

Jacob Bloomberg, a neuroscientist at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, is developing an omnidirectional treadmill training system that would allow astronauts to jog or walk through a simulated environment — a favorite country lane, say, or Central Park in New York.

Judging by the 6,000 applicants, plenty of would - be spacefarers share NASA's optimism, despite the likelihood that the closest these astronauts will get to space walking will take place in a giant swimming pool.

It is also the only vehicle from which astronauts have ever made untethered space walks.

Kathryn Sullivan once walked in space as a pioneering female astronaut.

Speaking at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, the first man to walk on the moon expressed worry that the US would have no means of its own to get astronauts into space for a long time to come.

It also includes spent upper - stage rockets, used to loft the satellites into orbit, and items that have escaped the grasp of butterfingered astronauts, such as the glove Ed White dropped in 1965 as he became the first American to walk in space, and the tool kit that slipped from Heide Stefanyshyn - Piper's hand during a 2008 space walk.

Space suits are basically big balloons, and an astronaut constantly fights air pressure for every little movement, making space walks hard work and limiting what can be accompliSpace suits are basically big balloons, and an astronaut constantly fights air pressure for every little movement, making space walks hard work and limiting what can be accomplispace walks hard work and limiting what can be accomplished.

Five space walks later, the astronauts completed the repairs.

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.

Hubble 3D Director: Toni Myers Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio and through the power of IMAX ® 3D, Hubble 3D will enable movie - goers to journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings, and accompany space - walking astronauts as they attempt the most difficult and important tasks in NASA's history.

The program will recruit K - 12 educators interested in performing the duties and responsibilities of regular astronauts, including space walks, shuttle deployment and experimental management.

-- Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Ph.D., Apollo 14 Astronaut (the sixth person to walk on the moon), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Data from the Kepler Space Observatory indicates that our galaxy is home to some 40 billion «earth - like» planets.

The United States declared victory in the Space Race on July 20, 1969 when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission.

If these former Naval aviators and space shuttle astronauts could take the risks they did, I figured that I could walk over and say hello.

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.

The box Yinka Shonibare assembled for his 2002 work Space Walk, a dramatic sculpture of floating astronauts, contains many record album covers, mostly of Philly Sound performers.

In Rachel Rose's Everything and More (2015), we hear an astronaut describe the disorientating experience of returning to Earth from space: «Your sensitivities are so increased because they've been absent for so many months... It's hard to walk straight... It makes it hard to navigate; as you turn into doorways, you tend to swing wide.»

Like the astronauts walking in unlimited space, I feel my creative efforts do not convey a sense of being lost, but of being found.»

The first Canadian to walk in space, astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield begged the question, «How well [do you] visualize failures so you can get the job done?»

Through his 21 - years as an astronaut, 3 spaceflights and 2600 orbits of Earth, Colonel Hadfield has become a worldwide sensation, harnessing the power of social media to make outer space accessible to millions and infusing a sense of wonder into our collective consciousness not felt since humanity first walked on the Moon.