Sentences with phrase «during missions which»

The perspective will also change from top down to forward facing during missions which keeps you alert and on edge oftentimes.

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In Germany, I had the pleasure of flying a CAS mission during which I was assigned an Italian JTAC: I still remember his surprise hearing an Italian voice coming from an American A-10.

For their part, and because they have «a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation,» including you, the letter explains they will give about 99 percent of their Facebook shares, which currently means about $ 45 billion, during their lives to advance their mission.

Inada's ministry is accused of concealing logs which show that Japanese troops were in increasing danger during their mission.

The premier is joined by representatives of Nova Scotia Business Inc., the Halifax International Airport Authority, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Intergovernmental Affairs during the mission, which lasts until Feb. 4.

Such an oversimplification ignores the biographical, religious and political realities running through the history of Christian missions during the «great century» and long before, as missionaries have, in the name of Jesus, striven to understand and learned to respect the particularities of the cultures to which they have come.

Mark uses this section as an interlude to fill up the time during which the disciples arc out on their mission.

This is known as the «farewell pilgrimage,» during which the Prophet received the divine message that his mission was fulfilled and foresaw that the end of his life was near.

The statement of Bangkok that we seek a church which is not merely the refuge of the saved but a church which is the catalyst of God's savings work in the world, summarizes, in a sense, the ecumenical thinking on church and mission during the two decades after the New Delhi assembly of the World Council of Churches.

Instead, those goals emerged out of a formal and informal interactive process during which a variety of players analyzed and reflected on mission goals.

BW 166 LLC, based in Santa Rosa, California, is named for Bonded Winery 166, which was the number of California Mission Vintage Co., acquired by Moramarco's grandfather during Prohibition in downtown Los Angeles.

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.

The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU - EOM) monitoring team during the 2016 election noted that various factors account for the low participation of women in front line politics and for that matter the governance process, chief amongst which is «hostile political terrain» that results in mudslinging, name - calling and insults or use of vulgar language.

Mr. Mahama's work in Sierra Leone comes after his lead role during the ECOWAS Observer Mission's monitoring of the largely peaceful Liberia election, in which football legend, George Weah, replaced Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as Head of State.

The Missions have been followed by advocacy for support to ECONEC members, which resulted in IT support to the National Elections Commission of Liberia during that country's recent elections and a recent donation of logistics items by the Nigerian government to NEC Sierra Leone.

This case is bolstered by data from the last mission to make such measurements — the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which swooped by Titan in 1980 during solar maximum conditions and found similarly depleted levels of methane.

As well as affecting the performance and nutritional content of space seeds, this could damage the flavour of plants produced in space, which might become a problem for crews reliant on plant - based diets during long space missions.

The LRO mission, which is currently orbiting the moon, will be plunged into darkness for an extended period during the eclipse.

Among the more unique data sets collected by Juno during its first scientific sweep by Jupiter was that acquired by the mission's Radio / Plasma Wave Experiment (Waves), which recorded ghostly - sounding transmissions emanating from above the planet.

Jet streams occur at very high altitudes — 30,000 to 40,000 feet — which is why they were not definitively identified until World War II, when pilots noticed intense headwinds during long - distance military missions.

«The mission of ISS, as the scientific body of the National Health Service, requires an appropriate level of autonomy,» says Giudice, a member of the institute's scientific committee, which has been disbanded during the receivership.

Provided stratospheric winds cooperate, the mission is expected to last up to 24 hours during which Hurford plans to gather time measurements of Jupiter's atmospheric structure.

When the Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (ACRIM I) satellite ended its mission, there was a delay in launching ACRIM II, which meant that data from the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) satellite data had to be used during the intervening period.

After that mission, NASA imposed a strict pre-flight quarantine during which astronauts were to avoid crowds, small children or any sick people for seven to 10 days.

Six years later, he flew for the first time on a six - day, 96 - orbit mission during which he helped deploy a satellite, conduct experiments in astrophysics, and run an onboard materials processing lab.

And during the Skylab missions, which began in 1973, scientists saw decreased white - blood - cell responses in returning astronauts.

The ChemCam instrument — which vaporizes material with a high - powered laser and reads the resultant plasma with a spectrometer — has shown a similar composition to fine - grained dust characterized on other parts of the planet during previous Martian missions.

Doing so would sacrifice a number of exciting observations during the closest part of the flyby, but Stern strikes a Solomonic tone: «If you're presented with a choice between a degraded science encounter that would still blow our door off, and complete loss of mission, utter failure — which would you take?»

His first mission was a three - day Gemini X mission in July 1966, during which he set a world altitude record and became the nation's third spacewalker, completing two EVA's.

Until then the six planets around Kepler 11, which have been validated by various means, are the «Kepler spacecraft's latest — and we think its greatest — finding to date,» said mission co-investigator Jack Lissauer of Ames during a January 31 teleconference with reporters.

«In our solar system we have no planets between the mass of Earth and the mass of Uranus, which is about 15 Earth masses,» Jonathan Fortney of the University of California, Santa Cruz, a planetary scientist affiliated with the Kepler mission, said during the teleconference.

Next, Knowles and his team ran an experiment in which they incubated seawater from a pristine coral reef location and from Mission Bay in San Diego for several days, during which they monitored the viral and microbial abundance.

During 2015, there will be seven active spacecrafts on Mars, says Lakdawalla, including missions from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and India, which

The heavy - lift launch vehicle is currently under development and on schedule for its first flight in 2017, called Exploration Mission - 1, or EM - 1, which will also carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, or MPCV, during its second unmanned test flight.

During a servicing mission in February 2002, astronauts added the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), doubling the Hubble's field of view and replacing the Faint Object Camera, which served as the HST's telephoto lens.

There were dozens of studies conducted by NASA and academia during that time concerning such a mission, which was seriously contemplated as a follow - up to the Apollo lunar landings.

She said that a reaction wheel and some of the probe's thrusters failed during the mission, which would have meant the spacecraft couldn't point its instruments to collect data, or communicate with Earth through pointing its antenna at the planet.

Cassini, which is nearing the end of its 13 - year mission exploring Saturn and its moons, detected the molecular hydrogen during its final pass through Enceladus» plumes in October 2015.

It also encountered an engine out anomaly during the CRS - 1 mission, which placed a secondary payload in an improper orbit (as was noted by Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait in his Oct. 8, 2012 article on Discover Magazine).

We present here 275 planet candidates observed during Campaigns 0 - 10 of the K2 mission that are orbiting stars brighter than 13 mag (in Kepler band) and for which we have obtained high - resolution spectra (R = 44,000).

Morgan Cable is part of the NASA team working on the proposed Dragonfly mission, which would explore Saturn's haze - covered moon using a dual - quadcopter that could fly hundreds of kilometers during a 2 - year mission.

During 18 flight missions the three unmanned aerial vehicles were flown with a horizontal separation of tens of metres or less and a temporal separation of less than ten seconds, which made it possible to measure the atmospheric solar heating rates directly.

Now, as its mission comes to an end, the spacecraft will change course, during which it will once again complete a close flyby of Titan, the US space agency explained.

The prime mission plan includes 40 to 45 flybys, during which the spacecraft would image the moon's icy surface at high resolution and investigate its composition and the structure of its interior and icy shell.

Cassini took nearly a half - million images during its mission, which included more than 13 years in orbit around Saturn, a tour that repeatedly took the probe by the moons Titan and Enceladus, two places scientists are eager to send another spacecraft in the search for microbial life.

The RS - 25 engine E2063 test - fired during last week's review is planned for use on the second flight of NASA's new super-heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), which will be Exploration Mission - 2 (EM - 2).

During the main Cassini mission in 2004 — 2008, which occurred in the southern hemisphere's summer, more clouds and lakes were observed in the northern polar regions, where it was winter.

Following the revival of ACS WFC during the Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) in 2009 May, CTE corrections are now typically several tenths of a percent and should be included, even for our bright standard star observations that utilize a standard reference point which is only 512 rows from the CCD amplifier B readout corner.

Despite a series of further proposed cuts to the space agency's planetary science budget in recent years by the White House, Congress has nevertheless been much more supportive of a Europa mission, appropriating more than $ 100 million during the same time period for the further development of a mission concept called the Europa Clipper, which is currently under study by NASA.

As Saturn approaches its August 11th equinox (during which the Sun will be directly above the gas giant's equator at noon for 27 months), the Cassini Equinox Mission can do some moonlet spotting.