Sentences with phrase «experiments aboard»

The article said that the Japanese Space Agency was inviting Japanese candidates for a chance to conduct space experiments aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle in 1988.

Ray Cronise, a former NASA scientist who spent 15 years overseeing experiments aboard shuttles at Marshall Space Flight Center, has been conducting experiments since 2008 to see if cold temperatures have an effect on the metabolism.

The SpaceX Dragon space freighter is open for business today as the Expedition 55 crew begins unloading and activating new time - sensitive space experiments aboard the International Space Station.

The three biology experiments aboard the landers discovered unexpected and enigmatic chemical activity in the Martian soil, but provided no clear evidence for the presence of living microorganisms in the soil near the landing sites.

The prize: the opportunity to perform their experiments aboard an Airbus A300 Zero - G aircraft that will take off from Bordeaux, France, during ESA's 51st Microgravity Research Campaign next November.

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It could also benefit other experiments aboard the orbiting laboratory.

That's a consolation to professor Rod Savidge, who struggled for years to arrange a tree growth experiment aboard the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson conducted the experiment aboard the orbiting laboratory, with NASA microbiologist and the project's Principal Investigator Sarah Wallace and her team watching and guiding her from Houston.

«That's why the experiment aboard the Stratos II + rocket is such an important initial step», says Marc Klein Wolt, astronomer and director of the Radboud Radio Lab.

Bellevue eighth - graders launch experiment aboard the International Space Station by Tatevik Aprikyan

Not exact matches

Rich campfire experiences, followed by lots of localized experiments can create enough visible evidence that change is happening that others jump aboard.

The experiment will be replicated aboard the International Space Station and on Earth for comparative samples.

In 2010 and 2011, during the STS - 132 and STS - 135 missions aboard space shuttle Atlantis, astronauts in space and scientists on Earth performed nearly simultaneous parallel experiments; both teams cultured samples of P. aeruginosa bacteria using conditions that encouraged biofilm formation.

The panel concluded that only experiments in astronaut physiology should be conducted aboard the space station, and that most life science research should be ground based.

This angers some biologists whose experiments have flown aboard NASA shuttles and on Mir.

The team from Imperial College London, Southampton and Liverpool universities, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (SRC), were collecting ocean - bottom seismometers aboard the NERC research ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano erupting.

An American doctor - astronaut is supposed to spend three months aboard Russia's Mir space station performing biomedical experiments.

In his most recent assignment, he spent nine days aboard the station and performed nearly two dozen science, engineering, and education experiments.

It was November 1991, and the veteran NASA engineer was aboard the Atlantis shuttle to deploy a defense satellite and conduct experiments.

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft full of NASA cargo, experiments and equipment blazed into orbit Friday, April 18, aboard the company's Falcon 9 rocket.

Experiment hardware was also on the Cygnus manifest ensuring the continuous international research aboard the orbital laboratory.

The shuttle also carries a smattering of small science experiments, including tubes with five kinds of microbes being tested for a later trip aboard a Russian spacecraft to the Martian moon Phobos.

The samples can not fly home aboard the unmanned European, Japanese and Russian cargo capsules that regularly deliver equipment and experiments to the station, because these capsules burn up on re-entry.

The Nature Communications study was inspired by simple experiments conducted in microgravity aboard the International Space Station.

There was only one serious mishap: A freak failure of all four solid - state memory drives aboard the experiment («very surprising to me,» Binns says drily) scuttled some of their results.

Scientists at the NCAR and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory are collaborating on an experiment that will take place aboard the NSF / NCAR Gulfstream - V High - performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (GV HIAPER) aircraft.

Researchers have already tested the method using observations from GOSAT and the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment 2 (GOME - 2) instrument aboard the European meteorological satellite MetOp - A — with surprising results.

These curious double bursts of energy a few tens of millionths of a second apart were discovered in 1993 during an experiment known as «Blackbeard» aboard an earlier and less sensitive anti-nuclear proliferation satellite called ALEXIS.

The theory, unproven by at least a half dozen experiments done by real scientists aboard multi-governmental research ships, was that the algae bloom would sink to the bottom with it's carbon.

The MARSIS instrument is one of seven science experiments riding aboard Mars Express, which launched from Earth on June 2, 2003 and reached the red planet in December of that year.

Also while a student in Los Angeles, she served as a team member working on NASA's Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, an instrument that flies aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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).

A team of astronomers has used the Precision Integrated - Optice Near - infrared Imaging ExpeRiment (PIONIER) instrument mounted aboard the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to image the massive red giant star.

Eerie sounds from the edge of space were recorded for the first time in 50 years aboard a NASA student balloon experiment.

A NASA - supported experiment reveals that complex molecules hitchhiking aboard a comet could have survived an impact with Earth.

This was observed in an experiment carried out in 2004, aboard the New Zealand research ship Tangaroa.

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.

After a series of lab - rat experiments conducted aboard a space station go horribly awry, resulting in the entire facility self - destructing in the opening scene, samples of Caldwell's formula fall to Earth, infecting George (who swells to King Kong proportions), an alpha wolf somewhere in Southern Wyoming, and a crocodile in Everglades National Park.

Directed by Julius Onah with a script by Oren Uziel, the film's synopsis originally suggested a film about group of astronauts stranded aboard an international space station after performing a dangerous experiment.

God Particle follows a team of astronauts aboard an international space station who find themselves adrift in the cosmos after a scientific experiment involving a particle accelerator causes the Earth to vanish.

A team of astronauts aboard a space station find themselves alone after a scientific experiment causes Earth to disappear.

The Hollywood Reporter says that the aforementioned actors will play crewmembers aboard a space station who find themselves alone after a scientific experiment causes Earth to disappear.

Columbia Public Schools» elementary and middle school students experiment with sound waves and code robots aboard their maker bus.

The activities aboard the Catherine Moore provide students with the opportunity to conduct marine biology, chemistry and ecological experiments, to engage in commercial fishing techniques and learn on - board navigation and marine electronic communication techniques.

Set aboard a space station called Talos I in the year 2032, you play a character involved in experiments meant to change humanity, but things GO →

A spot painting created by «Young British Artist» and one - time Enfant Terrible Damien Hirst made it into space in 2003 — a colour calibration chart destined for a scientific experiment — was a commissioned design, aboard the first British Mars -LSB-...]

I will be watching this ice arch closely, because together with a group of 50 international scientists I am scheduled to sail these icy waters aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden this summer for a multitude of experiments to take place in Petermann Fjord with data sampling of adjacent ice, ocean, and land.

Just a few weeks ago the Chief Scientist of the largest and best ocean iron micro-nutrient replenishment study performed aboard the German Alfred Wedgner Institutes research ship Polarstern announced that in their experiment they observed the following results.

My own experiments were with ASTER -LRB-(Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) datasets from a Japanese instrument fflown by NASA aboard TERRA.