Sentences with phrase «during space flight»

«It's anybody's guess how they are doing it,» says Reggie Edgerton, a physiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied muscle atrophy in humans during space flight.

Micra, a device which manufacturer and medical device giant Medtronic calls the world's smallest pacemaker (it's a one - inch long product that doesn't contain any leads), is being sent to the final frontier to examine how it's affected by high radiation and low temperatures during space flight.

Not exact matches

The Federal Aviation Administration and Space Florida, the state agency tasked with promoting interstellar tourism, predict suborbital flights alone could generate up to $ 1.6 billion in revenue during their first 10 years of operation.

«This is going to be ultimately a huge revolution in space flight,» Musk said during a webcast from the launch control center at Cape Canaveral immediately after the Falcon 9's autonomous touchdown.

The idea was to put a twist on the practice of sending dummy payloads into space during flight tests.

The company is now looking at selling space on the rockets during test flights to accommodate experiments and researches.

Jeff Bezos» space company Blue Origin successfully landed one of its New Shepard spacecraft during a test flight on Friday.

Ride became the first American woman to fly in space in 1983 during a flight of the space...

Getting rid of bodily wastes during long space flights is a problem....

Lewicki also got a feel for what it's like to work at NASA during a summer internship at Goddard Space Flight Center through the NASA Academy program.

Gripping, detailed stuff for the true space fanatic, penned by someone who was actually at Mission Control during the flight.

The phenomenon may someday help researchers prevent muscle degeneration in humans during bed rest, limb healing, or space flight.

The most promising developments of VR - Hyperspace are being integrated into the cabin of a motion simulator to put the new technologies to the test in a small space and even under extreme flight conditions, such as during turbulence.

The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics tests scientific outcomes on self and space perception during in - flight motions,.

During her last Space Shuttle flight in 1998, she served as payload commander, overseeing 23 science and technology experiments, as well as supervising the delivery of 4000 kg of equipment, hardware, and water destined for the Russian MIR space staSpace Shuttle flight in 1998, she served as payload commander, overseeing 23 science and technology experiments, as well as supervising the delivery of 4000 kg of equipment, hardware, and water destined for the Russian MIR space staspace station.

During its 55 - day flight, Super-TIGER collected just a few thousand of the heavy atoms that Binns seeks, with the help Super-TIGER's collaborators at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Caltech, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Minnflight, Super-TIGER collected just a few thousand of the heavy atoms that Binns seeks, with the help Super-TIGER's collaborators at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Caltech, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of MinnFlight Center, Caltech, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Minnesota.

A russian rocket of the same model used to carry cosmonauts into space apparently exploded during flight last month.

During each of the Apollo flights, I stayed home from school, huddled in the basement near the television with the diagrams of rockets I had cut out of local newspapers and magazines, transfixed by the images from space.

The spacewalk had been scheduled to test techniques for a far more difficult service call: repairing the Hubble Space Telescope during a shuttle flight in December.

Nesvold and her colleague Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., presented the findings Thursday during the «In the Spirit of Lyot 2015» conference in Montreal, which focuses on the direct detection of planets and disks around distant stars.

This practice was continued for more than a year, through the ill - fated STS - 107 flight of the space shuttle Columbia, which broke apart during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003.

It was during this time that the future and first director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., would share his vision of manned space exploraSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., would share his vision of manned space exploraspace exploration.

For instance, during the 1984 flight of the space shuttle Discovery, a 60 - centimeter icicle grew from a fuel cell vent.

Judy Racusin, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said during today's press conference that the Fermi team is «cautiously saying [the gamma - ray signal] is potentially associated with the black hole merger» detected by LIGO.

These first flights provided some answers to what to expect during short - term space flights.

Data generated early in NASA's Integrated Immune study indicated that the distribution of immune cells in the blood of crew members aboard the space station is relatively unchanged during flight.

SpaceShipTwo, which is modelled on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne, will launch into space for the first time during test flights in 2011.

Kelly's twin brother, retired astronaut Mike Kelly, who embarked on four space shuttle flights during his own career, will remain on Earth during the mission so that scientists can use the siblings to learn more the risks of space exploration.

Friction during the meteor's flight through the atmosphere caused the space rock to break into pieces.

Four astronauts training for test flights with NASA's Commercial Crew program joined the festivities at Space Launch Complex 41 Thursday morning as one of the highest steel beams was placed on the Crew Access Tower during a «topping off» ceremony with United Launch Alliance,

In this handout provided by U.S. Navy, Navy divers, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11 (EODMU11), Mobile Dive and Salvage Company 11 - 7, attach a towing bridal to the Orion Crew Module during the first Exploration Flight Test (EFT - 1) NASA Orion Program following its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 December 5, 2014 in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles southwest of San Diego.

«My team decided to use Chandra to look at the kilonova one more time,» said Eleonora Troja, a research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, during a press conference held Oct. 16 to announce the big discovery.

Trailing Earth's orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential knock - outs during its nine years in flight, from mechanical failures to being blasted by cosmic rays.

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).

«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.

NASA discovered in the mid-1960's that FAR waves was an effective way to maintain cardiovascular health and conditioning for astronauts during long space flights.

As a confirmation of the validity of this form of cardiovascular conditioning, extensive research by NASA in the early 1980's led to the conclusion that infrared stimulation of cardiovascular function would be the ideal way to maintain cardiovascular conditioning in American astronauts during long space flights.

That world can seem like a secret society to those who don't understand Spanish, but you'll see during Bello's performances that the lyrics double as another flight of exploration as they float like wisps of smoke through the sonic spaces carved out by her collaborators.

The emotional / psychiatric support animal must be small enough and confined to sit in your lap, in the space beneath your feet, or in the space under the seat in front of you without invading another customer's seat or foot area space during the entire flight.

The company just completed its first powered test flight since then this week, according to CNBC, although during that test company head Sir Richard Branson promised that Virgin was «just months away» from sending people into space.

They either leak, open up during the flight, or take up too much space in our luggage.

Putting them on you gives more space in your suitcase and keep you comfortable during the flight (air - condition on board of a plane).

The space can get crowded during peak times and the amenities are rather limited but it does offer you a place to rest and relax before your flight.

The flight attendants also use the little space between the front of the middle two seats and the cabin wall as a sort of wet bar to hold wine and small plates during meal service.

The Space Shuttle Columbia burnt up during re-entry, the entire Space Shuttle program went through a safety overhaul, and the Shuttle returned to flight.

This game - ified report lets you launch a rocket into space, passing important information during flight.

Nesbitt was the official artist for NASA during the Apollo 9 and 13 space flights.

These collections of skulls, specimens, botanical sketches, and other flights of fancy were popularized during the 19th - century Victorian era and were displayed in small spaces... Continue reading Artist a Day: Lezley Saar

Based in the city with the world's busiest airport, Atlanta's AIR AIR artist residency is about to launch its third cycle, sending three artists on round - trip flights across the country on 24 - hour trips, during which they create artwork under the constraints of space, time, and sensory deprivation.

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., found during a seven - year period beginning in 2003 that parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran along the Tigris and Euphrates river basins lost 117 million acre feet (144 cubic kilometers) of total stored freshwater.