Sentences with phrase «astronauts aboard the spacecraft»

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.

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«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.

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.

Astronauts will travel aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, launched on the Space Launch System rocket, to rendezvous in lunar orbit with the captured asteroid.

This Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth on May 11 carrying, among other things, science samples from the One - Year Mission, in which NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko stayed aboard the station from March 2015 until March of this year.

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.

«But while all of Gemini's rendezvous attempts were controlled by the onboard astronauts, the Chinese are first attempting to do the link up with no crew aboard the Shenzhou 8 spacecraft.

In 1962 astronaut John Glenn was wearing a Heuer stopwatch aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft when he became the first American to orbit Earth.

In addition to providing a backup to the traditional exercise devices aboard the station, Hybrid Training may be useful in keeping astronauts fit as they travel beyond low Earth orbit aboard smaller spacecraft.

At just about 2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Chang» e-5 Test 1 (CE5 - T1) spacecraft lifted off aboard a Long March rocket for an unmanned dash to the moon and back that aims to test technology for a sample return mission planned for 2017 and, a decade from now, possibly landing astronauts on the moon.

With a little more than a year to go before U.S. astronauts launch aboard a U.S. - built spacecraft, and from U.S. soil, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era, NASA has ordered its second Post-Certification Mission (PCM) from SpaceX.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program will deliver U.S. astronauts into low - Earth orbit, from U.S. soil, and aboard a U.S. spacecraft, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), which has committed funding to fly researcher - astronauts and their payloads aboard commercial suborbital spacecraft, is an independent, nonprofit applied research and development organization.

Since the end of the Space Shuttle program, NASA astronauts and those of its international partners have launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the ISS aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft — at a cost of some $ 70 million or more per seat.

The film details activities of both the astronauts and mission control during pre-launch and launch sequences, daily activities aboard the spacecraft...