Sentences with phrase «at the space agency»

«The National Research Council report offers helpful advice about the appropriate size of our astronaut corps as we enter this exciting new era of space exploration and crew transport operations,» said Mike Curie, a NASA spokesman at the space agency's Washington headquarters.

Her team at the space agency works hand - in - hand with the engineers at MD Robotics, which has a contract to build the instrument, and with project scientists, mainly at York University in Toronto, who will be analyzing the data.

Like everyone else who worked at the space agency in those heady days, Borucki dreamed of exploring other worlds.

Luckily, the KU researcher has good contacts at the space agency.

Although the first Red Dragon mission would largely be a technology demonstration, there has been great interest from scientists about what sorts of experiments might piggyback on the mission — or, more likely, on its follow - ons in 2020 and beyond, says James Reuter, a deputy associate administrator in NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate at the space agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

A similar priority shift at NASA was pursued under the administration of President George W. Bush a decade ago, when appointees at the space agency eliminated this line from the NASA mission statement: «To understand and protect our home planet.»

I read through some of the inaugural issue overnight after a hectic day tracking the Senate climate debate, closing out a piece on the falling forests of Papua New Guinea, and reporting on the release of NASA's Office of Inspector General report on politicization of climate communication at the space agency.

The images were produced by researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who work in concert with others at the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center to process data from ozone - monitoring instruments on the EOS - Aura satellite.

Not exact matches

It's long been the case that advertisers paid up to two to three times more for a top - rated sports event compared to a top - rated drama or sitcom, and sports value as real - time programming and its finite availability have only caused its status to grow, says Michael Neale, a managing partner for investment at Mediacom, a global media agency that co-ordinates and purchases advertising space on behalf of marketers.

Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, says the space agency already uses virtual reality technology in astronaut training and spacecraft simulations, so it was logical to extend that successful model to inspire and educate the next generation of space explorers and scientists.

But 30 years after the arm was developed, at the cost of $ 180 million, Canada's specialty in space prosthetics continues, with Canadarm2 and Dextre (a «robotic handyman,» in Canadian Space Agency parlance) on the International Space Staspace prosthetics continues, with Canadarm2 and Dextre (a «robotic handyman,» in Canadian Space Agency parlance) on the International Space StaSpace Agency parlance) on the International Space StaSpace Station.

The Freedom - of - Information - Act (FOIA) Office at NASA headquarters just released the Q&A sheet that the space agency's own PR staff referred to when the story became news.

Sylvia Flores, chief creative officer for Bad Agency, has used coworking spaces for the last couple of years and considers them to be «the hotbed for the latest and greatest ideas and technology — it wouldn't be surprising at all if the space I'm in adopted biometrics as a payment option.»

I have first - hand knowledge that at least one agency with which Oberammergau co-operates has been misrepresenting to its customers the so - called «hotel» space it has for sale, and has been engaged in other unethical practices.

Because not all teams used up their space in the 2016 offseason, several teams entered the free agency period July 1 with significant space at their disposal.

The Park District, whose officials could not be reached for comment Thursday, used about $ 441,000 in state and local funds to develop the land at Oak Hollow and another village open space, Munao Park, according to the agency's documents.

Television and print ads, by contrast, are done in standard formats and sizes and ad agencies can usually purchase space in many outlets at once.

The UK Space Agency's Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut programme won a Specialist Team Bronze Award and Jeremy Curtis, Head of Education & Skills at the UK Space Agency said: «The UK Space Agency is delighted to receive this award from the RAeS.

Deeply cut the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), whose dollars go toward protecting our drinking water, open space and recycling; Close state parks and campgrounds and slash staffing levels at our environmental enforcement agencies; and Steal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Fund, which was set up to invest in our clean - energy economy, not serve as a piggy bank for politicians.»

The building, a former tire factory which was at one point supposed to house tech companies, stood in disuse before GFI bought it in 2008 with plans to rehab the building as mixed - use residential and commercial space, ideally capturing a major City agency as a long - term tenant.

The agency is looking to rent office space at 101 Tyrellan Ave. to be closer to projects in the borough.

The rest --- a little over 2,200 --- will go to an administrative pool, including a 600 - space reserve to accommodate shifts due to construction and snow removal and just over 1,100 spots to be allocated at the discretion of state agencies to executive staff and others.

Building 4 is getting a new roof as part of $ 60 million in improvements that will enable it to become the consolidated headquarters of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, as the agency absorbs employees currently working at leased private office space in several locations.

The agency also approved $ 420,000 in tax breaks for Schneider Development's $ 11.7 million project to build 40 one and twobedroom apartments in a series of vacant buildings at 285 Niagara Street, with space for Ru's Pierogies, a startup food manufacturer, on the ground floor.

Charlotte Keith's story detailed the dynamics of the deal in which a state development agency contracted with LPCiminelli to build office space to house Albany Molecular Research Inc. at the Conventus building.

However, a Department of Transportation official testified that the agency opposes the current legislation because the bill wants to look more broadly at curbside space throughout the city instead of focusing on individual neighborhoods.

Before going into Election 2016, the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) knew that technology was going to play a key role in their results system so they tasked Mr Joe Anokye, a Telecommunications engineering service manager at NASA, the US space agency to device a system for them.

Follow - up observations taken at Weryk's request by astronomer Marco Micheli, using a European Space Agency telescope in the Canary Islands, only deepened the mystery.

Those future surveys include the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, set to kick off in 2019 at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson; the European Space Agency's Euclid satellite, launching in 2021; and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile, which is set to begin collecting data in 2023.

The data may be quite important for another reason, says Philippe Escoubet, a plasma physicist at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

After completing her degree she went off and started a Masters in Aerospace Engineering at University of Laval where, in 1997, she did an internship at the Canadian Space Agency.

Stay tuned for a follow - up article next week, when Next Wave interviews Dr. Alain Berinstain, Head of the Mars Exploration program at the Canadian Space Agency

Individual laboratories within each of these federal agencies specialize in everything from parasitic diseases to space robotics and offer postdocs hands - on experience at state - of - the - art facilities.

I also look into setting up relationships with large science organizations such as the European Space Agency, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, and the Science Museum, so that we can share content at the most basic level or work together on larger projects.

Testing of the telescope and science instruments is proceeding well at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, agency officials said.

Working at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) in St.Hubert, Quebec, she is in charge of developing and coordinating the overall Canadian - part of the Phoenix project.

The European Space Agency is contemplating a mission to test ways to push such an object off a threatening trajectory, the first serious attempt at developing a planetary defense.

The prospective development of a space shuttle — endorsed by a presidential task force in 1969 — had begun diverting attention at the agency, as well.

As Congress develops public policy, I will continue to engage and seek counsel from our world class scientists and technicians working at the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute on Standards and Technology, and other federal agencies.

If the FCC can create a way to provide television white spaces to wireless users, the agency might take a similar approach to free up other unused or underused areas of the spectrum, for example those currently utilized by the military, radar and fire and police departments, says Luke D'Arcy, head of cognitive radio technology at Cambridge Consultants, a technology development and consulting firm.

The European Space Agency recently took these ideas into a more concrete direction by releasing a concept for a spacecraft called Don Quixote that could push at an asteroid while another spacecraft (called Sancho, of course) hovers nearby to monitor any change in its orbit.

Zubrin passionately argued that the space agency must aim for a more ambitious target, asserting that with «gutsy leadership» a visit to Mars could be closer to reality than a moon landing was at the dawn of the Apollo program in 1961.

After the end of the disastrous space shuttle program, it's not at all clear where the space agency is going — or if it has enough money, skills, or buy - in to get there.

«We have measured the ring directly,» says Nicolas Altobelli, Cassini's project scientist at the European Space Agency in Madrid.

The deal didn't cover NASA, however, so Congress's action — or lack of it — in effect freezes the space agency's 2007 budget at 2006 levels — $ 545 million below the president's $ 16.7 billion request for FY 2007.

A couple of years ago, one of my thesis mentors sought visually impaired scientists working at a major space science agency in the United States.

Using NASA and European Space Agency satellites, the 2015 study had measured the changing height of the ice sheet and determined that East Antarctica was ballooning upward by roughly 1.59 centimeters a year (at least from 1992 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2008).

Its chairman, Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), wanted to shape NASA's plan for human space exploration, research missions, and other activities at the $ 20 billion agency.

At the annual European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, Austria, Blanc suggested NASA and the European Space Agency could join forces to plan and mount the mission, which could launch in the mid-2020s.

Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency are revisiting their designs as well.