Sentences with phrase «by an astronaut from»

PATCHWORK ponds catch the eye in this image of the Utah desert taken by an astronaut from the International Space Station.

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Musk is CEO, majority owner, and head rocket designer at SpaceX, an aerospace start - up in El Segundo, California, that by 2011 plans to be hauling astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

The photo depicted astronaut Buzz Aldrin as photographed by fellow traveller Neil Armstrong, and the issue sold 8,527,600 copies, which was actually down from the previous week, when 8,666,219 sold.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

Parents are inundated with an explosion of how - to books, magazines, pamphlets and television reports on everything from selecting an offspring «s sex to nutrition during pregnancy, Latin by age 1, and astronaut camp at 5.

But rocks brought back from one of these plains by Apollo 16 astronauts in 1972 did not have volcanic compositions.

Between the late 1960s and mid»70s, Langseth was in charge of a project to study how heat escaped from the moon's interior, using sensors deployed by astronauts during the Apollo missions.

By adapting ideas from robotic planetary exploration, the human space program could get astronauts to asteroids and Mars cheaply and quickly

Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel.

NASA's lack of concern is a far cry from the anxiety that surrounded the moon rocks retrieved by Apollo astronauts between 1969 and 1972.

Faced with protests from the feminist movement, NASA began openly recruiting female astronauts, and by 1986 eight American women had flown in space.

Scientists in the 1930s calculated that rate from ancient astronomical records, and laser reflectors planted on the lunar surface by Apollo astronauts confirmed it.

To investigate how space travel might affect drug potency, Brian Du, from the Wyle Engineering Group and colleagues sent four medical kits containing 35 medicines commonly used by astronauts into space, while four identical kits were stored in a controlled environment on Earth.

13 Laser beams bounced off mirrors left behind by Apollo astronauts show that the moon is moving 1.5 inches farther from Earth each year.

We would be a crew that wouldn't receive much day - to - day input from «Earth - based» mission - support, a setup very different from that experienced by astronauts on the International Space Station or those who went to the moon.

Spacecraft in low - Earth orbit, such as the shuttle and the International Space Station, are protected from these particles by the Earth's magnetic field, but astronauts travelling farther afield would not benefit from this protection.

This image was captured by astronaut Reid Wiseman from his vantage point on the ISS.

It might sound like something from a science fiction plot — astronauts traveling into deep space being bombarded by cosmic rays — but radiation exposure is science fact.

Orion's main compartment, where the astronauts worked, would be separated from the blasts by shock - absorbing legs and a 1,000 - ton pusher plate.

Most gripping is a description of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as viewed by astronaut Frank Culbertson from the International Space Station.

Astronaut Don Pettit created this photo by remotely snapping 18 shots from an external camera and combining them with imaging software.

By looking at the artifacts of astronauts — from their dining utensils and sleeping bags to their religious icons and family photos — these researchers hope to gain new insights into how astronauts of different backgrounds interact with each other, and how they adapt to life in microgravity.

Several scientifically interesting asteroids could be visited by astronauts with flight times ranging from six months to a year and a half using a 200 - kilowatt (kW) electric propulsion system, which is a reasonable advance over our present capability; the ISS currently has 260 kW of solar arrays installed.

Plucked from space by ISS astronauts using the station's multi-jointed robot arm, the uncrewed Dragon cargo capsule, made by SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, had already passed its pre-docking manoeuvring tests to show it can safely approach the ISS.

Scientists send laser pulses to the moon and measure signals that bounce back from three reflectors left by Apollo astronauts, along with another Soviet one.

Several sites on the near side sampled by Apollo astronauts had rocks enriched with KREEP — for potassium (K), rare earth elements (REE) and phosphorus (P)-- which resists crystallization from magma and hence remains in a molten state until the entire magma ocean has solidified.

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.

In a classic needle - in - the - haystack effort, Weinreich searched through thousands of grains from the famous high - titanium «orange soil» discovered by astronaut Harrison Schmitt during the Apollo 17 mission before finding ten that included melt inclusions.

Lightning captured in a photograph by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli from on board the International Space Station (Credit: ESA / NASA)

Lightning captured in a photograph by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli from on board the International Space Station

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.

ASAP's complaint comes just two days after NASA held a press conference with its commercial crew partners, Boeing and SpaceX, to herald the progress they are making to provide services to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of 2017.

NASA Associate Administrators for Human Exploration and Operations (Bill Gerstenmaier) and Space Technology (Steve Jurczyk) will be joined at the witness table by former astronaut Franklin Chang - Diaz (of VASIMR engine fame), Mitchell Walker representing the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Joe Cassady from Aerojet Rocketdyne, and Anthony Pancotti of MSNW LLC, which is developing the NASA - funded Electrodeless Lorentz Force (ELF - 250) thruster and the ElectroMagnetic Plasmoid Thruster (EMPT).

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Kubrick charts Man's ascent from ape to astronaut in a series of startling sequences, before focusing on a mission to Jupiter to contact an unseen supreme intelligence whose presence is symbolised by the appearance of imposing monoliths.

The rapidly - growing specimen is eventually named Calvin by a group of American schoolchildren live - chatting with the astronauts from Earth; fitting his hand into flexible gloves that allow him to reach into its isolation tank, a smitten Derry interacts with it as if it's a new kitten.

Adapted by Drew Goddard from Andy Weir's bestseller, The Martian features Damon as NASA astronaut Mark Watney, seriously injured and thought dead by his crewmates on Mars during a huge storm that forced them to evacuate.

Steadfastly narrated by the astronauts themselves, they tell us how they felt at being so far away from home, and what the mission meant to them.

From astronaut Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon, to commander Melissa Lewis, played by Jessica Chastain, to pilot Rick Martinez, played by Michael Peña, to flight surgeon Christopher Beck, played by Sebastian Stan.

From the Studio: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew.

Until the point when the film begins, he's been entirely home - schooled by his parents (Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts), and seeks refuge from staring eyes within an astronaut's helmet.

WHAT: When their space shuttle is destroyed by hurtling debris from a damaged Russian satellite, U.S. astronauts Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) are left adrift in space with limited oxygen and a minimal chance of survival.

Ryan's joined by seasoned, retirement - bound astronaut Matt (George Clooney, as alternately goofy and confident as ever), who tosses off stories of Mardi Gras in 1987 — juxtaposing the casual layman banality of everyday conversation against the distractingly beautiful multi-miled view from space — as well as self - esteem - boosting pep talks.

Life, which will be directed by Daniel Espinosa (Safe House), follows a group of astronauts on the International Space Station who bring back a sample from Mars.

But the inclusion of three films — Alfonso Cuarón's «Gravity,» which stars Sandra Bullock opposite George Clooney as astronauts detached from their space shuttle by a mission disaster, «All Is Lost,» director J.C. Chandor's account of an unaccompanied sailor (Robert Redford) stuck in a sinking boat, and «Tracks» featuring Mia Wasikowska as a young explorer on a 1,700 - mile trek — suggests this year's festival will make some moviegoers appreciate the roofs over their heads just a bit more.

He's Colonel Tom Carlsen (Steve Railsback), an American astronaut racing to prevent his planet from succumbing to the plague wrought by Space Girl's scheme.

(One of them featured an XQ «astronaut,» played by The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams, striding toward the camera, Right Stuff — style, then talking to viewers from the middle of a busy New York City sidewalk, reminding them of the 1960s moon race and asserting, «We need to talk about high school.»)

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.

These packs feature samples of rock brought back from the Moon by the NASA the Apollo mission astronauts as well as a meteorite from Mars, which the children are able to handle.

Long known by residents and visitors as one of the most spectacularly beautiful ecosystems in the world, the Belize Barrier Reef was recently seen from a brand new angle when NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, currently on assignment aboard the International Space Station, posted high - resolution photographs of the reef on his Twitter feed.