Sentences with phrase «crew member»

Kornienko was selected as an Energia test cosmonaut candidate in 1998 and trained as an International Space Station Expedition 8 backup crew member.

Kelly was a backup crew member for the station's Expedition 23/24, where Kornienko served as a flight engineer.

A longer mission and a third crew member would allow the space agency to fly additional microgravity research, maintenance and other activities while docked to the outpost.

Closer to home comes this ethereal image of the Southern Lights, as captured by a crew member of Expedition 52 on the International Space Station.

The funding is for the final phase of the commercial crew program which includes final development and certification of the systems, at least one demonstration flight to the ISS carrying at least one NASA crew member, between two and six additional flights to the ISS, and «special studies.»

The only crew member who never sleeps is Isis, the ship's remotely controlled robot, which has been prowling the rocky surface in search of king crabs.

«Things like radiation, microbes, stress, microgravity, altered sleep cycles and isolation could all have an effect on crew member immune systems,» said Crucian.

NASA announced that a crew member will be swung out within reach of the damaged panel on a 50 - foot boom attached to the space station's robotic arm as early as Saturday to attempt a fix, to reduce the risk of further damage that would require the panel to be jettisoned, thereby reducing the growing station's power supply.

Ultraviolet light would quickly kill the virus in an aerosol cloud, he argued — and if it had somehow survived, it would have infected more than just one crew member aboard the ship.

For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.

In that scenario, a crew member will have to wait until he or she actually dies before getting the two - week leave.

Jane Poynter, who lost the tip of her finger in a rice thresher, married a fellow crew member.

«Europe in the past has been a strong player in manned spaceflight and that is without question,» Atlantis crew member and European Space Agency astronaut Hans Schlegel said in an interview.

This blatant enjoyment of a shared resource upset another crew member so much that he immediately scolded the scooper.

HI - SEAS crew member Yajaira Sierra - Sastre wanted to see if antimicrobial garments could stay wearable longer.

The other enemies, of course, are the rest of the crew,» joked Christiane Heinicke, a crew member and physicist.

I agree with the views of my fellow Apollo 8 crew member William Anders on the naming of lunar landmarks...

«We get about one suggestion a week,» says Anna Cummins, an Alguita crew member and education adviser at Algalita.

Another time, after dinner, a different crew member scooped a spoonful of Nutella out of the jar, a gooey - chocolate glob for dessert.

A special arm that a second crew member operates while another pedals places the wire in neat rows on the spool when the wire is withdrawn.

During one 24 - hour marathon set of trawls, crew member Ian Wesley took to the pedals in the -35 ° weather, Findlay continues:

That capability «will be like having another crew member aboard», says Fincke.

«Before you put a human being, certainly a NASA crew member, on board, you have to have met those standards for safety.»

Veteran astronaut Andy Thomas, a crew member on this year's inaugural flight of the reengineered space shuttle, says that stars from dry, unpolluted earthly locations look as good as or better than they do through the shuttle's glass view port.

I mean, it's too bad about the crew member, but it is rare indeed for a movie to show silence in space (see the entry for Star Wars — though television's Firefly gets it right).

«One of your biggest enemies is boredom,» said crew member Christiane Heinicke via live - streaming app Periscope.

This enabled the four passengers, including Mr Cameron who had to jump three feet, and a fellow crew member, to jump to safety.

Westchester County police on Thursday recovered the body of the final missing crew member from the tugboat involved in a fatal accident earlier this month near the Tappan Zee Bridge.

A day after a tugboat crashed into a barge north of New York City, Cuomo met with the family of a second crew member whose body was pulled out of the Hudson River.

Bolton is a former soldier and tank crew member, who served in Germany, Belize, Cyprus and Bosnia and was awarded an OBE for services to international security and stabilisation

Preliminary investigation revealed that no crew member was abducted or any item stolen during the attack.»

According to the statement released by the acting director of information, Suleiman Dahun, revealed that no crew member was abducted or any item stolen during the attack.

Westchester County police recovered the body of the final missing crew member from the tugboat involved in a fatal accident earlier this month near the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Huerta said he hoped to complete work on the pilot qualifications rule by August and the flight crew member training rule by October.

He was a crew member of an Army Air Corps bomber that was shot down over Germany during World War II, according to Marty Naughton, commander of American Legion Post 208 in Arlington Heights.

Other activities include acting as a pit crew member or a race announcer.

Francesco Cigarini, the pit crew member who suffered a broken leg in a botched pit stop in Bahrain, is doing «fine» according to Maurizio Arrivabene.

The fourth crew member, selected from more than 75 volunteers, is Joel McQuade, 37, who operates an aircraft and computer - leasing firm in Dallas.

So if, as is said in a couple of places online, there were points in WWII when an 8th Air Force crew member was only about 25 % likely to serve out his tour in a B - 17, that means for those 25 mission tours:

Truex's longtime girlfriend, Sherry Pollex, is battling a recurrence of ovarian cancer, crew chief Cole Pearn's close friend died unexpectedly from a bacterial infection in August, and last month crew member James Watson, 55, died after a go - kart team outing on the race weekend at Kansas Speedway.

With his father and Ron McFarlane, friend and third crew member, Buchan worked out for two days.

Up the mast of Spray, crew member Warren Bailey dangles dizzily from a bosun's chair after making emergency repairs on rigging that had torn out during gusts on first night.

If there was ever any doubt as to Ice - T's stance on food, the hip - hop icon cleared it up in the Body Count video «Institutionalized»: While taking a lunch break, he's accosted by a film crew member wearing a «Meat Is Murder» T - shirt.

For example, 95 percent of its restaurant managers worked their way up from being a crew member.

The whole problem could have been averted had someone mentioned to any crew member what was about to transpire.

One of the protesters was Park Chang - jin, a crew member who was forced off of a Korean Air aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport in 2014 when the company chairman's daughter threw a tantrum over the way nuts were served.

She ordered a senior crew member off the plane, forcing it to return to the gate at John F. Kennedy airport in New York City.

United Airlines became embroiled in a public relations crisis in April when security agents were seen brutally dragging a passenger from a plane because he would not give up his seat to a crew member.

A 50 - year - old Delhi - based businessman was held after a cabin crew member with a Russian airline alleged that he touched her inappropriately and...

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