NICER is an Astrophysics Mission of Opportunity within NASA's Explorers program, which provides frequent
flight opportunities for world - class scientific investigations from space utilizing innovative, streamlined and efficient management approaches within the heliophysics and astrophysics science areas.
In response, three other airlines filed proposals to use
the flight opportunity for a new daily flight of their own.
Not exact matches
In the wake of the Dao scandal, airlines have vowed to make changes easier to digest
for travelers, increasing the amount of compensation or giving passengers advanced notice and the
opportunity to rebook on the app, if a
flight is cancelled or oversold.
I first wrote about the company back in 2011
for New Scientist, but just happened to find myself sitting next to some of the principals on the
flight down to Vegas this year, which was a great
opportunity to catch up on what they've been doing.
Indeed, thanks to the Military Personnel Exchange Program, the U.S. Air Force has the
opportunity to swap service members with an allied nation military:
for this reason, whilst «Pinna», from an AMX A-11A Ghibli experience with the 132 ° Gruppo (Squadron), flies with the 74th FS, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Joe «Slap» Goldsworthy, an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot with more than 2,700
flight hours of experience, is assigned to the 132 ° Gruppo and flies the Ghibli (even in combat).
The company has a long wish list, including plentiful
flights at local airports, a stable, business - friendly government and nearby recreational
opportunities for employees.
«Today's outcome, while appearing to offer some hope of remedy
for the pipeline, does not address the larger issue of our competitiveness and the real - time
flight of capital occurring in our country and province, despite the myriad of
opportunities for Canada to succeed in the global economy.»
«If H.B. 821 were enacted into law, we believe that while our member airlines would see an immediate financial benefit, the state of Georgia would also see long - term benefits in the form of more
flight options, lower fares and greater
opportunity for growth,» wrote Sean Williams, vice president
for state and local government affairs.
I am so grateful —
for all these
opportunities, of course, but mostly
for the kindness of other people: the reader who shoved a $ 50 Starbucks card into my pocket at a signing; the
flight attendant who gently patted my arm; Dad's idea to make my favorite comfort food
for dinner and Mom's faithful execution of pork loin, rice, and fried apples; Marvin and Brandon at Belk; Dan's shoulder; a call from my sister; readers who pile into minvans and drive many miles just to talk, friends who understood why, with all this good publicity, I would just need a good, long cry.
Having arrived at Villa back in 2008, he had to be patient
for his
opportunity to play regularly, but once Paul Lambert came in he was a veritable rock
for the Villans and played a huge part in keeping them in the top
flight.
This looks a great
opportunity for Shaw to ensure he is playing regularly in the top
flight, with recent rumours linking him with Arsenal and Chelsea perhaps not an ideal next step
for him.
Taking place during 9th week of Michaelmas term, the Winter Training Camp was a great
opportunity for aspiring solo pilots to build up
flight time and experience during the winter training period when soaring is harder, if not impossible.
An older head or two could balance out the squad nicely, and Carrick becoming available on a free transfer is an
opportunity that is too good to turn down
for Spurs, and several other top -
flight clubs.
It's believed that the South London club have the
opportunity to sign Zaha on a permanent deal at the end of his loan spell
for a fee of around # 8m, reports the Mirror, but only if they retain their top
flight status in 2014/15.
This season has undoubtedly been a disruptive period and real setback
for him, but over the course of the next three weeks he has the
opportunity to build some momentum, take that into the summer which could in turn see him in full
flight to begin next season.
Since the advent of the Premier League in 1992, the main reason cited
for England's lack of progress on the international stage has been the influx of foreign stars into the country's top
flight, with many feeling such imports have come at the expense of homegrown talent receiving top - level
opportunities.
But this is an
opportunity for them to land a positive as they go at home against the worst away side in the top
flight this season.
With the visiting Swansea out of form, this has to be a good
opportunity for Burnley to press on even further but they are going to have to snap their winless streak against the Swans in the top
flight to pull it off.
Since then, Rovers have thrown away two priceless
opportunities to enhance their stance in the top -
flight further, losing away to Bolton 2 - 1, despite boasting a numerical advantage
for most of the second half, as well as throwing two invaluable points away last weekend when drawing 1 - 1 with bottom of the league West Ham, Kean's very first game in charge and it was a game where Blackburn produced one of their poorest performances of the season, certainly at home, where Rovers were previously a force to be reckoned with under» Big Sam».
Besides the increased revenues from
flights, their growth is also the catalyst
for opportunities in and around the facility, including the need
for warehousing, light manufacturing and assembly, and related services.
Michael Grimm's request to travel to Europe
for a week this spring to pursue an «employment
opportunity,» ruling that Grimm is too much of a
flight risk.
Squyres, a planetary scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, is also the lead investigator
for NASA's long - lived
Opportunity Mars rover (although he says he plans to step down from that role if CAESAR is selected
for flight).
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.
The great lack in the American scientific labor market, he and other observers argue, is not top -
flight technical talent but attractive career
opportunities for the approximately 30,000 scientists and engineers — about 18,000 of them American citizens — who earn PhDs in the U.S. each year.
Their advances in
flight control, robotics and miniaturized sensors, are providing an unprecedented
opportunity for high - resolution data collection.
«Current women engineers become a
flight risk when they experience a career plateau with few advancement
opportunities, poor treatment by managers and co-workers and a culture that stresses taking work home or working on weekends with no support
for managing multiple life roles,» Fouad said.
Between normal
flight - operations meetings and a conference about a possible dune drive
for Opportunity, Squyres, the head of science operations
for both rovers, managed to wolf down some lunch while he spoke with me about the rovers» successes and future plans.
Over the last two weeks, the
flight dynamics and operations teams at ESA have been making a detailed analysis of
flight trajectories and timings
for Rosetta to deliver the lander at the earliest possible
opportunity.
The HOPE Training Program provides an
opportunity for a team of early - entry NASA employees to propose, design, develop, build and launch a suborbital
flight project over the course of 18 months.
He was
Flight Director
for the rovers Spirit and
Opportunity, and the Surface Mission Manager
for Phoenix.
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.
A 30 - year veteran at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mr. Hoffman has supported a number of major
flight projects, including working on software
for the Voyager spacecraft's encounter with Neptune, testing computer hardware
for the Cassini mission to Saturn, participating in the STARDUST mission to the WILD - 2 comet as a member of the project systems engineering team, contributing to the Mars rovers (Spirit and
Opportunity) as Avionics Systems Manager and serving as Deputy Project Manager
for the GRAIL mission to the Moon.
Although it didn't make the cut this time, the Science Programme Committee decided to maintain the mission as a possible competitor
for a future
flight opportunity.
This, frequent
flight opportunities, and operation that enables rapid changes of science instruments and hands - on in -
flight access to the instruments, assure a unique and extensive potential - both
for training young instrumentalists and
for encouraging and deploying nascent technologies.
NASA has made a variety of
flight and suborbital
opportunities available to the astronomy community along with grants
for data analysis and theoretical studies.
At the same time that MSSS started work on the MGS MOC in the mid-1990s, the company was developing a very small, modular camera system
for future spacecraft
flight opportunities.
The long
flight from Miami with lovely Virgin team gave me the rare
opportunity of having time to create a summary
for this Miami event.
She missed her
opportunity to catch the last
flight over the Atlantic — as she puts it, she's even fifteen minutes late
for the end of the world — and to help her fix this, Dodge offers to take her to someone he knows who has a plane.
At this weekend's press junket
for the romantic comedy Baggage Claim, Collider got the
opportunity to chat with actor Djimon Hounsou about his role as the wealthy and exotic businessman, Quinton Jamison, who is one of the exes that
flight attendant Montana Moore (Paula Patton) decides to track down and reconnect with.
The
opportunities for criticism are endless and could tackle subjects like white
flight, stereotyping, crime, the War on Drugs, and more.
We must understand that,
for Obama in particular, his experience was profoundly shaped by the
opportunity to attend a top -
flight independent school — an environment that correlates with his message and the success of many new black leaders — instead of what was almost surely an underperforming district school in Hawaii.
Efforts to increase school choice have merely resulted in more
opportunities for white
flight and fractured communities.
Small kitchen items including light equipment, cutlery, plates, bowls etc. (could you use this policy as an
opportunity to replace
flight trays with proper crockery,
for example?
The rule prohibits U.S. airlines operating aircraft with 30 or more passenger seats from allowing their domestic
flights to remain on the tarmac
for more than three hours at U.S. airports without giving passengers an
opportunity to leave the plane.
Specifically, the carrier failed to inform passengers on a
flight delayed at the gate
for a lengthy period of time of the
opportunity to deplane.
Relaxed in the knowledge that day two will bring plenty of
opportunity for fast driving on some of Germany's best roads, we stick to our respective steeds
for the duration of the journey - Steve Davies in his Alpina, John Hayman in the Boxster S, yours truly in the Tuscan, and Henry Catchpole, who'll be joining us later, on an easyJet
flight to Munich.
Specifically, the carrier failed to inform passengers on a
flight delayed
for a period at the gate with the door open that they had the
opportunity to deplane as required under Part 259.
For these flights, the carrier failed to adhere to the assurance in its contingency plan for lengthy tarmac delays that the carrier would not permit an international flight to remain on the tarmac for more than four hours without providing passengers an opportunity to depla
For these
flights, the carrier failed to adhere to the assurance in its contingency plan
for lengthy tarmac delays that the carrier would not permit an international flight to remain on the tarmac for more than four hours without providing passengers an opportunity to depla
for lengthy tarmac delays that the carrier would not permit an international
flight to remain on the tarmac
for more than four hours without providing passengers an opportunity to depla
for more than four hours without providing passengers an
opportunity to deplane.
Updating the Tarmac Delay Rule: This rulemaking would amend DOT's existing tarmac delay rule, which prohibits airlines from permitting aircraft to remain on the tarmac
for more than three hours
for domestic
flights and
for more than four hours
for international
flights without providing passengers an
opportunity to deplane.
Specifically, the carrier failed to adhere to the assurance in its contingency plan
for lengthy tarmac delays that the carrier would not allow an aircraft to remain on the tarmac
for more than three hours
for domestic
flights before providing passengers an
opportunity to deplane.