Sentences with phrase «astronauts aboard»

Indeed, last year, the headset embarked on its first voyage to the final frontier, joining astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

and begins killing the astronauts aboard.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took this image showing Earth's atmosphere and moon on July 31, 2011.

A display of aurora australis, or southern lights, manifesting itself as a glowing loop, in an image of part of Earth's Southern Hemisphere taken from space by astronauts aboard the U.S. space shuttle orbiter Discovery on May 6, 1991.

6:49 p.m. Updated The video of Hurricane Irene above was shot by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, 230 miles overhead.

You can sift the entire batch at WindowsOnEarth.org, a website featuring photography by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Bill Anders, one of the astronauts aboard Apollo 8, scrambled for a camera, and he took a photo that showed the Earth coming up over the moon's horizon.

Several days after newly discovered Comet Lovejoy streaked through the Sun's atmosphere (see video above), it provided a glorious pre-holiday display for astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Pailes - Friedman is known for her contributions in the area of wearable technologies and smart textiles and has recently collaborated with NASA in developing wearable technology for astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Students from several Utah schools will be speaking with astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Friday.

Though the May 2009 visit to Hubble by astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis was the last scheduled servicing mission for the orbiting observatory (which is expected to remain in orbit until at least 2014), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has already collected galaxies of data from it.

NASA will send Star Wars: The Last Jedi to astronauts aboard the International Space Station for a special screening.

A team of astronauts aboard a space station make a frightening discovery that begins to alter their reality in the second spin - off in JJ Abrams» Cloverfield series.

A team of astronauts aboard a space station find themselves alone after a scientific experiment causes Earth to disappear.

God Particle follows a team of astronauts aboard an international space station who find themselves adrift in the cosmos after a scientific experiment involving a particle accelerator causes the Earth to vanish.

Perhaps the most famous example of making do is the scene immortalized in the 1995 film «Apollo 13,» when ground - based engineers figured out how to make a carbon dioxide filter that would keep the astronauts from suffocating — using only parts available to the astronauts aboard the spacecraft.

MANHATTAN — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have decreased physical fitness because of a decrease in the way oxygen moves through the body, according to a Kansas State University kinesiology study.

A Kansas State University kinesiology study has found that astronauts aboard the International Space Station have decreased physical fitness because of a decrease in the way oxygen moves through the body.

Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery install two technologically advanced instruments.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took this image of southern Scandinavia, showing the northern lights aurora, just before midnight under a full moon on April 3, 2015.

Featuring footage of Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) and narrated by actress Jennifer Lawrence, images of our magnificent blue planet demonstrate the effects humanity has had on it over time in this film captured by the astronauts aboard the ISS.

As if they don't already have enough on their plate, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are turning storm chasers.

However, NASA is considering putting astronauts aboard the flight — a change that would likely delay the mission by at least a year.

For the last few years, the agency's envisioned «Journey to Mars» campaign has included the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), an effort to pluck a boulder from a near - Earth asteroid and drag the rock to lunar orbit, where it could be visited by astronauts aboard Orion.

It could be flown with astronauts aboard or by remote control.

Following undocking, astronauts aboard the space station rotated their vehicle about 90 degrees to allow the shuttle astronauts to take detailed photos of the outpost from many angles to document the status of its exterior.

That accident also took the lives of all seven astronauts aboard.

The astronauts aboard the International Space Station will unload the supplies after the Dragon arrives at the orbiting research laboratory.

In both cases, astronauts aboard an Orion spacecraft would then study the redirected asteroid mass in the vicinity of the moon and bring back samples.

A little higher, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station are getting a great view.

Take a look at the latest image by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

The seven astronauts aboard shuttle Atlantis flew the fifth and final mission in May 2009.

Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft launched on the Space Launch System (SLS) would rendezvous with the captured asteroid mass in lunar orbit and collect samples for return to Earth.

Pope Benedict XVI spoke Saturday with the astronauts aboard the international space station, specifically mentioning Cmdr. Mark Kelly's wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who is recuperating from recent surgery on her skull.

Space felt a little closer to home at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables as Miami students participated in a live question and answer downlink with two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Since then, the two - room, 9.4 - ton vessel has orbited the planet without any Chinese astronauts aboard.

In order to save their lives, the astronauts aboard Apollo 13, for example, had to manually shut down and restart the command module in a specific sequence, and gain access to and activate the lunar module to supply themselves with oxygen — incredibly difficult tasks for anyone but a trained astronaut.

In related epicurean space libation news, last April, Elon Musk's SpaceX rocketed a fancy new espresso machine to the astronauts aboard the ISS.

Astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 famously put it to work in a clever way.

(McNair died in 1986 while working as a scientist - astronaut aboard the space shuttle Challenger.)

«Life from Space,» a new show from the National Geographic, is now helping regular people understand what it really means to be an astronaut aboard the ISS.

In 2015, to coincide with Tim Peake becoming the first British astronaut aboard the International Space Station, the Unlimited...

And that's one reason why I'm sharing this photograph taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station last month.

Not exact matches

Aboard the International Space Station, an astronaut's life is typically work, exercise, rest, repeat.

«Over the past several years, NASA has been funding a group of psychologists to develop a software program astronauts could use, while aboard spacecraft, to help them work through depression and conflicts with their fellow space - goers.

Everyone else — the other astronauts who spent the term of their mission aboard the ISS as something other than a launchpad for a public speaking career — will shake their heads, embarrassed at the display: mortifying, needy, totally typifying Hadfield's tour of duty as Canada's first - ever ISS commander.

Later this year, a different kind of astronaut is expected to be deployed aboard the International Space Station: a floating robot head.

However, they do use compressed gases to move around in zero - gravity, and astronauts can control them from a laptop aboard the ISS.

People will also be able to watch through the VR app as astronauts discuss their experiences aboard the International Space Station.

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli was aboard the orbiting lab for that call and was also around to chat with Francis, who considered a career in chemistry before becoming a priest.