Sentences with phrase «astronauts in space suits»

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The team reasons that if the compressive force of the stretchy suit prevents sleepers» spines from elongating while they are lying flat, it should also help astronauts in space.

At last the antenna shoots out triumphantly, fortunately not puncturing the astronaut's space suit in the process, although a cap that covered the wire whizzes by precariously close to his head.

The orbiting debris has included a glove and a spatula dropped by space - shuttle astronauts, bags of Mir's garbage, and the Russian radio transmitter in a space suit, SuitSat.

Of the 34 female astronauts currently working in the United States, there is no space suit for 16 of them, and the available medium - sized suit is only «a marginal fit» for another 15.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelley, who returned to Earth in 2016 after a year in space, chronicled his trip with a number of epic shots, including a full - blown space - suit selfie.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staSpace Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staSpace Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staspace suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staspace station.

Historic Site: When the Apollo astronauts stepped off the moon for the last time in December 1972, they left behind space suits, boots, cameras, antennas, hammers, and scoops.

Puncture an astronaut's space suit — whether by projectile, the sharp edge of a tool or falling onto a rock — and you could let in a world of trouble.

Screen Daily: «Almost balletic, spiraling, scenes as space craft are torn apart and mere humans in delicate space suits are thrown into the void with moments of quiet beauty as they the two intrepid astronauts relish the beautiful vistas and deadly beauty they find themselves amongst.

In successive close - ups, the psychological claustrophobia of a marriage parallels the physical claustrophobia of the astronaut's suit and the emotional claustrophobia of obsessive fantasy, but nevertheless, paradoxically, astronauts and the imagination operate within a boundless space.

During «Mae's Journey,» about black female astronaut Mae Jemison, Amir bursts through the door in an orange space suit: «Get up, get up!