Sentences with phrase «faced by astronauts»

NASA is striving towards a long - term goal of putting humankind on Mars, and exposure to cosmic radiation is one of the key health issues to be faced by astronauts during any potential interplanetary mission.

A study in the Journal of Applied Physiology shows that artificial gravity should prevent a big problem faced by astronauts who stay weightless for extended periods.

The data provide critical information on the radiation hazards that will be faced by astronauts on extended missions to deep space such as those to Mars.

Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel.

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Faced with protests from the feminist movement, NASA began openly recruiting female astronauts, and by 1986 eight American women had flown in space.

It shows the world surrounded by dragons — a metaphor, he says, for the radiation threat astronauts face in deep space.

Last October, a committee of independent experts chaired by industrialist Norman Augustine concluded that NASA faced a shortfall of around $ 3 billion a year if it still intends to send astronauts back to the moon — let alone Mars — by 2020.

With the space shuttle facing retirement by early 2011, Obama opened the way for private firms to take over transportation services for NASA's astronauts.

Ever New: Hubble Through The Years 1:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. (streamed on Griffith ObservatoryTV) 7:00 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. NASA astrophysicist Dr. Ken Carpenter and Northrop Grumman engineer and executive Mr. Russ Matijevich recount the challenges faced by engineers, scientists, and astronauts in their efforts to keep Hubble ever new.

That collaging of America's fault lines runs from his combine Canyon, in which he juxtaposes a photograph of his son with a stuffed American bald eagle to invoke the myth of Jupiter and Ganymede, to his silkscreen paintings of the 1960s in which photographs of astronauts and farms are overshadowed by the face of assassinated president John F Kennedy.

The results include images like a rocket blasting off superimposed with typeface, and a black - and - white astronaut's face interrupted by a red, sideways stamp.

The artist's charged visual language — rooted in an exploration of identity and geography, two concepts she considers fluid — includes figures with the head of a tiger and the body of a woman, or others whose faces are obscured by astronaut's helmets, as they float, untethered, in space.