Sentences with phrase «fly on space station»

NASA's nine newest astronauts joined the space agency's ranks in 2009 and have been training to fly on space station missions ever since.

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On Tuesday, McClain (who is preparing to fly to the International Space Station in November) posted photos of herself in a spacesuit next to her young son.

He has said that if NASA does buy rides on commercial rockets, he would be able to fly astronauts to the space station in his smaller Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule within three years.

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.

NASA should consider extending space shuttle launches into 2011 rather than ending the program next fall, flying the international space station at least until 2020, and boosting spending on its flagging technology programs.

Relying solely on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to fly Americans to the International Space Station would be expensive — and tenuous, should relations with Russia ice over.

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.

On the evening of Aug. 20, 2014, the International Space Station was flying past North America when it flew over the dazzling, green blue lights of an aurora.

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.

The space station can be flown without a crew, although this increases the risk of problems developing on board, Suffredini said.

Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) today announced six boxes of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) to study the impact of weightlessness on the heart.

«Fruit flies journey to International Space Station to study effects of zero gravity on the heart.»

That could imperil U.S. access to the International Space Station (ISS) since NASA has purchased seats to fly on Russian Soyuz spacecraft only through 2019.

A passenger flying on a commercial space taxi to a Bigelow space station would not be covered by NASA's safety standards.

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Because GEDI will fly on the International Space Station, its orbital path will focus on Earth's mid-latitude and tropical regions, where the vast majority of forest carbon is stored.

Both companies said they will be ready by the end of 2017, but CBS News adds that NASA still plans to use one seat on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft for the duration of the space station program and for Russians to fly on the U.S. systems.

Once the lil» Martian traveler in «Life» establishes himself as A) a freakishly fast - developing adversary and B) a real stinker, the zero - gravity blood globules float freely and, like in «Alien,» we have a slithery antagonist slithering amok in the space station, snacking on the fly.

Despite the fact most science fiction games at the moment focus on getting in a space ship and flying to other planets, Alien Isolation focuses on being trapped «Isolated» on a space station without escape.

First of all, theyll probably be long - duration astronauts living on the International Space Station flying up there on commercial crew vehicles or Soyuz and then probably flying on the Orion spacecraft thats going to take them farther than low - Earth orbit.

In other words, if you are flying in the International Space Station and toss an apple out the window (come on, use your imagination), it will keep going in that same direction forever, unless something stops it (like a planet, gravity or alien life form).