Sentences with phrase «experiment on a space station»

The cargo includes equipment for US, Japanese and European experiments on the space station, as well as food, clothes and life - support gear.
Of course, the mad - science corporation that had sponsored the experiments on the space station want their «weaponized DNA» back.

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A genetic science experiment in a space station goes horribly wrong, sending down canisters chemicals that land on Earth.
Budweiser is upholding its commitment to be the first beer on Mars by confirming upcoming experiments on the International Space Station with plans to send and study barley — one of its key ingredients — into space in early DeceSpace Station with plans to send and study barley — one of its key ingredients — into space in early Decespace in early December.
The experiment will be replicated aboard the International Space Station and on Earth for comparative samples.
To demonstrate one - way XCOM, the team will install MXS on the experiment pallet where it will transmit data via X-rays to NICER's receivers positioned 166 feet away on the opposite side of the space station truss.
This promising technology is slated to fly as one of several experiments on an external pallet to be deployed on the International Space Station in 2018.
It hosted three space crews whose members performed science experiments, including one group of astronauts who remained on the station for a then - record 84 days.
Earlier this year, as astronauts busied themselves inside the International Space Station, engineers on the ground conducted their own experiment just outside the craft.
The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.
An experiment on the International Space Station may soon be producing fresh vegetables for astronauts, and projects on Earth are championing insects as a food source.
Mission 5 of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is scheduled to launch to the space station on July 11.
Scientists want to address controlling these outbreaks with the next round of cellular growth experiments on the International Space Station — Micro-8.
Sporting new instruments, as well as refurbished versions of detectors originally used on balloon flights over Antarctica, the refrigerator - sized, 1.4 - ton (1,300 kilogram) ISS - CREAM experiment will be delivered to the space station as part of the 12th SpaceX commercial resupply service mission.
ISS - CREAM will join two other cosmic ray experiments already working on the space station.
Using only the timing of radiation bursts from pulsating stellar corpses, an experiment on the International Space Station was able to pinpoint its location in space in a first - ever demonstraSpace Station was able to pinpoint its location in space in a first - ever demonstraspace in a first - ever demonstration.
SPACE PLACE NASA's SEXTANT experiment demonstrated a stellar version of GPS, finding the experiment's location with an apparatus consisting of 52 X-ray telescopes (illustrated) on the International Space StaSPACE PLACE NASA's SEXTANT experiment demonstrated a stellar version of GPS, finding the experiment's location with an apparatus consisting of 52 X-ray telescopes (illustrated) on the International Space StaSpace Station.
See your experiment done on the International Space Station.
Ames Research Center has partnered with NanoRacks, a private firm with research facilities on the station, and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) to support the Ames Student Fruit - Fly Experiment (AFEX) on the orbital laboratory.
This science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education initiative provides numerous students across the United States the ability to propose and design real experiments to fly in low - Earth orbit on the space station.
«NASA Ames to launch science experiments to space station on SpaceX rocket.»
That's because experiments conducted on the International Space Station involving cells that line the inner surfaces of blood vessels (endothelial cells) show that microgravity accelerates cardiovascular disease and the biological aging of these cells.
It will study the effects of space radiation on DNA and will be strictly confined to a platform on the station run by NanoRacks, the company that Chinese researchers have contracted to run the experiment.
Experiments have shown that fish and salamanders reproduce normally on space stations, but research in mammals is scarce.
Samples with immune cells are currently on their way up to the International Space Station (ISS) on the so - called Cellbox Mission, where they will be studied in an experiment.
A team headed by Professor Oliver Ullrich from the University of Zurich's Institute of Anatomy is now conducting an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) to study whether this also applies to human cells.
ANTIPROTON ODDITY Two teams of researchers report possible signs of dark matter in data from the AMS experiment on the International Space Station (shown).
These STEM experiment kits provide the opportunity to explore the exciting research on the International Space Station.
The first stage of the plan — which is already underway — focuses on testing technologies and studying the impact of long - duration missions and microgravity on human health through experiments conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
In space, bacteria «shapeshifts» to defend itself against antibiotics, experiments on board the International Space Station (ISS) have revespace, bacteria «shapeshifts» to defend itself against antibiotics, experiments on board the International Space Station (ISS) have reveSpace Station (ISS) have revealed.
Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station (ISS) will be the focus of the three day «AMS Days at CERN» meeting, an occasion that brings together many of the world's leading theoretical physicists and principal investigators of some of the major experiments exploring the field of cosmic ray physics (IceCube, Pierre Auger Observatory, Fermi - LAT, H.E.S.S. and CTA, the Telescope Array, JEM - EUSO, and ISS - CREAM).
One mission of the Microbial Observatory Experiments on the International Space Station is to examine the traits and diversity of fungal isolates, to gain a better understanding of how fungi may adapt to microgravity environments and how this may affect interactions with humans in closed habitats.
Researchers sent the hardy Earth bacteria up to the International Space Station for a real test of radiation resistance in the space experiment ADAPT, which was mounted on the EXPOSE - E platform of the space station's Columbus moSpace Station for a real test of radiation resistance in the space experiment ADAPT, which was mounted on the EXPOSE - E platform of the space station's Columbus Station for a real test of radiation resistance in the space experiment ADAPT, which was mounted on the EXPOSE - E platform of the space station's Columbus mospace experiment ADAPT, which was mounted on the EXPOSE - E platform of the space station's Columbus mospace station's Columbus station's Columbus module.
The European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station on the volcanic island of Tenerife., Spain, is used for quantum communication and teleportation experiments, as well as for laser communication with satellites, space debris tracking and asteroid searSpace Agency's Optical Ground Station on the volcanic island of Tenerife., Spain, is used for quantum communication and teleportation experiments, as well as for laser communication with satellites, space debris tracking and asteroid searspace debris tracking and asteroid searches.
Experiments on the International Space Station have shown how bacteria can effectively defend itself.
The Matiss experiment, as part of the Proxima Mission sponsored by France's CNES space agency [Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES); National Centre for Space Studies (CNES)-RSB-, is based on four identical plaques that European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the 10th French citizen to go into space, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month misspace agency [Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES); National Centre for Space Studies (CNES)-RSB-, is based on four identical plaques that European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the 10th French citizen to go into space, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month misSpace Studies (CNES)-RSB-, is based on four identical plaques that European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the 10th French citizen to go into space, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month misSpace Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the 10th French citizen to go into space, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month misspace, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month misspace station in November for a six - month mission.
A future experiment on the International Space Station is taking the recipe instruction «allow the dough to rise» to all new heights.
While on the International Space Station, or ISS, she'll conduct about 100 experiments.
Unfortunately, those procedures are only available on Elysium, so he decides to go through a dangerous experiment to transform himself into someone capable of breaking into the well - guarded space station.
While these kumbaya moments are playing out down here, a very different scenario is unfolding on a manned station in outer space, where a rogue science experiment, a.k.a. Project Rampage, has gone terribly wrong (don't they all), causing some sinister canisters to crash land on Earth.
Here, a science experiment on advance genetics, being conducted aboard a space station, goes horribly wrong, in a Ridley Scott's Alien sort of way.
Rampage opens in space, where an illegal experiment in gene editing has gone awry, resulting in a super rat that destroys the privately owned space station on which said illegal experiment was taking place.
Next, a bizarre opening - credits sequence fast - forwards through nearly two years on the space station where Hamilton and her crew are experimenting with a particle accelerator in an attempt to solve the energy crisis that has brought humanity to the brink of collapse.
Instead of the story taking place on Earth, it is set on an international space station where scientists are experimenting with a particle accelerator.
Malin Akerman (above) and Jake Lacy play - really quite badly - the hugely wealthy Wyden siblings who have been experimenting with gene - editing on their private space station
Elsewhere, the sinister Energyne Corporation — run by the unscrupulous but hugely wealthy Wyden siblings (really quite badly played by Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy)-- have been experimenting with gene - editing on their privately financed space station.
The only known details of the film's plot, via its IMDb description, are that it centers on a group of scientists that must survive on an isolated space station when an experiment involving a particle accelerator results in something horrific.
, a collaborative experiment with the Royal Horticultural Society that's exploring the UK Slug population and use of chemicals; Higgs Hunting that was launch by Peter Higgs and tasks students to search for Baby Higgs — particles similar to the Higgs Boson; and TimPix that's supported by the UK Space Agency and seeks to measure the background radiation field on the International Space Station.
Here's a recent example from The New York Times: «Samuel Ting, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Nobel laureate particle physicist, said Wednesday that his $ 1.6 billion cosmic ray experiment on the International Space Station had found evidence of «new physical phenomena» that could represent dark matter, the mysterious stuff that serves as the gravitational foundation for galaxies and whose identification would rewrite some of the laws of physics.»
As the survivor of a mysterious experiment on board a deserted space station, the player makes their way through an intricate warren of once - occupied environments — research lab, living quarters, vaulted lobbies, lush gardens — while dodging the shapeshifting Typhons, nightmarish creatures that have taken control of the place.
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