Sentences with phrase «during earlier missions»

Fixing heat shield tile problems uncovered during earlier missions.

Problems with heat shield tiles during earlier missions hadn't been adequately addressed, and NASA ignored engineers» requests to ground the mission until these problems were solved.

Not exact matches

In early June of 2010, the Falcon 9 successfully completed its debut mission to LEO.To date, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets boast a 94 % success rate, having suffered three failures — two complete and one partial — during 47 launches throughout the company's history.

Moreover, the events of the New Testament took place during a relatively short period of time, and during these years the mission of the Church captured the necessary attention of the early Christians.

During this journey, Paul covered the territory he had traversed in Asia Minor and in Europe on the earlier missions and stopped and preached at several new places as well, mostly ports of call at islands in the Ionian Sea.

(In case you're wondering, the European Gnostics, aka the Cathars, were finally hunted and killed in a search and destroy mission decreed by the pope during the early 13th century.

In addition, during the «early bird special», 50 % of all proceeds will go to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger, an organization whose mission is to provide for people who are hungry while at the same time advocating for other ways to end hunger.

A key mission of AK - AIMH is to improve families» access to competent professional services across all sectors during the early years of their children's lives.

During his lifetime, he wasn't about to let anything get in the way of his mission to care for the horses, many of which made big names for themselves in earlier years at Arlington International Racecourse in Arlington Heights.

Congressman Joe Crowley, the Queens Democratic chair and Washington powerhouse backing Mr. Garodnick, compared her to George W. Bush, declaring «mission accomplished» during the early days of the Iraq War.

(It was a stark change from a day earlier, when Mr. Cuomo, during his State of the State address, spoke of taking Mr. Silver and the leader of the State Senate on a series of international trade missions, including one to Mexico.

What we learned about Enceladus during that early part of the mission absolutely astounded us, but it was not until after 2008, when we received NASA's blessing to extend the mission, that we were able to devote significant time and resources to examining this fascinating place.

Cassini also sampled the plume's composition during flybys earlier in the mission.

When planetary scientists started studying the photographs and data from Voyager and the subsequent Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s, they confirmed this notion: these ridges, or lineae, are fructures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons.

Earlier this summer, the spacecraft made its first full orbit around the gas giant — the first of 36 planned flybys during the 20 - month mission — flying 2,500 miles above the planet's dense clouds.

The Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s confirmed the scientists» speculations that these ridges were fractures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons of the Jovian system.

«There's a heavy emphasis earlier, in other missions, on what's happening on the surface of Mars — what happened to the water and understanding topography and so on,» David Mitchell, MAVEN project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said during the Nov. 15 press conference.

Another is a special character that only joins you if you disobey an order to kill him during an early side mission.

During Torlakson's first term, he set out on a mission to provide a world - class education for all students from early childhood to adulthood.

Earlier this month, our Rescue Team saved 77 dogs and puppies during a rescue mission to the Midwest, where there is currently an overpopulation problem and no place for these sweet dogs to go.

Early tutorial missions include a voiceover that explains what to do, during which the main character and voiceover voice have a conversation.

During the early 1980s, she was heavily involved in the East Village abstract painting scene and showed at many of the landmark venues of the time, including Mission Gallery, Pyramid Club, Kamikaze Club, and The World.

Oceanographer Ian R. MacDonald, who collaborated with the organization during the three - month Gulf spill and an earlier one in Australia's Timor Sea in 2009, likens SkyTruth's mission to that of «a fire truck.»

During our closed - doors gameplay session, we got to try out an early Gears of War 4 campaign mission.

Our Mission: To positively impact child development and nurture healthy parent - child relationships during the critical early years.

A key mission of AK - AIMH is to improve families» access to competent professional services across all sectors during the early years of their children's lives.

Mari is excited to support Open Arms in furthering their mission to provide vital supports to families during pregnancy, birth and early parenting.