Sentences with phrase «by astronauts like»

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The Crystal Esprit itself is an all - suite yacht with butler service, food, drinks, excursions and special experiences, like lectures by astronaut brothers Scott and Mark Kelly, included in the rate.

The new report, released today (Sept. 7) by the National Research Council, states that NASA's models for predicting its astronaut staffing needs in the near future do not fully account for unexpected personnel changes like retirements and medical leave.

«Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration,» SpaceX representativessaid in the statement.

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.

And this seemed like, it was looking at the 40th anniversary of that first moon landing, both to run this article about the astronauts» experiences by Harrison «Jack» Schmitt — the only really trained scientist who then also became an astronaut and went to the moon — so it was good time to run that article, and also for me to reminisce about all of this myself because of certain little experiences of my own.

By the 1970s, Gorongosa had become Africa's most popular national park among foreign tourists, attracting the likes of movie stars John Wayne and Joan Crawford, and Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell.

«Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration,» announced SpaceX.

Squeezed by 1.5 times Earth's atmospheric pressure yet buoyant under one - seventh Earth's gravity, humans on its surface would feel more like divers under an ocean than astronauts on exposed airless rocks in space.

By 1965, Gemini astronauts were subjected to Tang, which has the limited advantage of making water taste less like water.

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.

And he writes the story in the tradition of [a] series of wonderful stories in the»40s by George Gamow that told the story of a physicist who had some wonderful adventures; and in this story, likewise, Guéron takes us on a journey through the wonderful adventures in curved spacetime of an astronaut, and it's kind of like a summer reading for physicists story, I would enjoy it on a beach, myself.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Scientists at Washington State University and the University of Idaho are helping students figure out how to farm on Mars, much like astronaut Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon, attempts in the critically acclaimed movie «The Martian.»

Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).

You may think your love life is something that is just supposed to float together like astronauts in space guided by some fateful source.

Astronaut takes a few songs to warm up, but by the time the band hits naughty dance - floor fillers like «Bedroom Toys» and «Taste the Summer,» it feels like 1983 all over again.

by Walter Chaw A retelling of Polanski's creep classic Rosemary's Baby that plays more like its high - profile carbon copy The Astronaut's Wife, Richard Caesar's direct - to - video The Calling most recalls the good - bad Richard Donner movie The Omen.

The probability of something like the movie's course of events actually taking place, however, is quickly debunked by NASA astronaut David Scott in a brief «conversation» featurette with him; however, he's just as quick to defend the film's flights of factual fancy in the name of old - fashioned entertainment.

When Tom Wolfe first brought the story to life followed by Phillip Kaufman's movie masterpiece, I'd always wondered what it would've been like to be one of those early astronauts in «The Right Stuff.»

by Ruth Harris Like plumbers and carpenters, architects and astronauts, cellists and golfers, writers need the right tools to help them get the job done.

Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration.

The results include images like a rocket blasting off superimposed with typeface, and a black - and - white astronaut's face interrupted by a red, sideways stamp.

The applications for 3D printing in space are endless and could drive space exploration by allowing on - demand manufacturing of objects like tools and habitats needed for human missions, housing and laboratories could be built by robots using printed building blocks that take advantage of available soils and minerals and astronauts on long - duration space missions also could print and recycle tools as they are needed, saving mass, volume and resources.