Sentences with phrase «flight director»

Performed pre and post flight inspections of flight director, navigation and weather radar systems and all airborne communications systems.

But in the three - and - a-half years since then, Planetary Resources has made significant progress towards developing and testing the technology needed to make its dream become a reality, according to Lewicki, who served as flight director for NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, and surface mission manager for the Phoenix Mars Lander.

He and his wife adopted famed NASA flight director Gene Kranz's motto «failure is not an option» and resolved to fight for his life.

He spent the next 10 years at JPL, participating in assembly, test, and launch operations for Mars missions and acting as flight director for Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity and surface mission manager for Mars lander Phoenix.

«Let's stop looking at things we could have done if everything had worked properly,» said Rosetta flight director Andrea Accomazzo.

«It's been confirmed by hard numbers,» says Michel Denis, the ExoMars flight director at the European Space Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

«When you go to Mars nowadays, you know everything,» says Rosetta flight director Andrea Accomazzo.

«The undocking day will be a very busy day; we have a great deal of activities to do,» shuttle flight director Kwatsi Alibaruho told reporters during a Monday briefing.

«It's not ESA's first experience with aerobraking, but it is the first time we've used this technique to achieve a planned science orbit, repeating it for such a long duration,» said Michel Denis, ESA's ExoMars flight director.

«This will be our first free - flier capture from the space station,» says Dana Weigel, lead flight director for the ISS at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

So go stick your head in a fishbowl and try to walk around — that's not anything you take lightly,» NASA flight director David Korth said at a news conference.

«After spending a whole day hoping to get a new flight our directors are unable to book us a new one.

North Country Honor Flight Director Barrie Finnegan lead a special ceremony remembering the lives lost as part of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Alibaruho and his on - orbit flight control team will hand over mission control duties to Tony Ceccacci, lead shuttle re-entry flight director, and his team.

Sorry Gene Kranz, legendary flight director.

David Korth (second from right) served as ISS Flight Director in Mission Control during EVA - 23.

«I love Denzel because he never really lets you know exactly what he's up to,» Flight director Robert Zemeckis says, laughing.

«We are delighted that Aerolineas Argentinas has chosen Flight Directors to help re-establish its historically strong position in the UK market to South America.

Accessibility of motion controls could outweigh high price of entry for headsets, suggests Eagle Flight director Olivieri Palmieri

Although members of the lander team still have hope that a future flyby could be adapted to support a search for Philae, Rosetta flight director Andrea Accomazzo says there is unlikely to be another dedicated search until 2016.

If it all works, it will be a vindication for Robert Farquhar, the 81 - year - old who was the mission's original flight director.

«The space shuttle is a highly visible national symbol and a large commitment by the American taxpayers,» Wayne Hale, the space agency's former shuttle chief and STS - 108 lead flight director, said at the time.

Aerolineas Argentinas, the national airline of Argentina, has announced the appointment of Flight Directors as its new General Sales Agent for United Kingdom & Ireland, with the objective of strengthening its presence and increasing its market share in this important offline market.

«Personally, I feel a great sense of honor and pride at being able to serve as a shuttle flight director,» Alibaruho said.

My goal was that when I got back, I wanted for the flight director that I had in the beginning of the flight to talk to the flight director at the end of the mission.

FLIGHT RULES: Gene Kranz was the flight director during Apollo 11's landing.

During a mission, the flight director's instructions could be overruled only by firing him.

«It's on its path down to the comet,» says flight director Andrea Accomazzo.

«I don't deny that we are a bit tired, but we're also very excited,» says Andrea Accomazzo, the mission's flight director.

Flight director Andrea Accomazzo says: «It's unique and it will be unique forever.

«Those made uncomfortable by enclosed dark spaces, spinning, or loud noises should bypass this experience,» adds an actress playing the flight director.

SAGAL: You're the flight director, Bobak.

He was Flight Director for the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the Surface Mission Manager for Phoenix.

Bean will play the NASA flight director.

Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton, as Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise respectively are very good in their roles, as is Ed Harris as the Apollo 13 Flight Director, Gene Kranz.

The online empire started strong with its first film, Spike Lee's Chi - Raq, and are following that film with more top - flight directors: Amazon is set to distribute...

The characters with NASA include the organization's director (Jeff Daniels), the mission director (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the flight director (Sean Bean), and the head of public relations (Kristen Wiig).

«We aim to maintain a strong relationship with the travel trade, and I feel sure that Flight Directors will help us to achieve this.»

Established for more than 28 years, Flight Directors is the leading airline general sales agency, specialising in the UK market.

Cosmonaut Radomir Volkov, now in his dotage, was the flight director with ground control during the supposed incident and he seems to be the final puzzle in the mystery box.

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