Sentences with phrase «from space shuttle»

Cover: This Spaceborne Imaging Radar - C / X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR - C / X-SAR) image provided by NASA JPL and acquired from the Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS - 59 (April 11, 1994), shows part of the vast Namib Sand Sea on the west coast of southern Africa, just northeast of the city of Luderitz, Namibia.

But the inclusion of three films — Alfonso Cuarón's «Gravity,» which stars Sandra Bullock opposite George Clooney as astronauts detached from their space shuttle by a mission disaster, «All Is Lost,» director J.C. Chandor's account of an unaccompanied sailor (Robert Redford) stuck in a sinking boat, and «Tracks» featuring Mia Wasikowska as a young explorer on a 1,700 - mile trek — suggests this year's festival will make some moviegoers appreciate the roofs over their heads just a bit more.

SOLAR EXPLORATION The Ulysses spacecraft, a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was launched from the space shuttle on October, 1990 to explore the sun.

The satellite, called Deep Space Climate Observatory, was once scheduled for launch from a space shuttle in 2000 but has never gotten off the ground.

The reason for the break up: it seems the left wing was hit by a piece of foam from the Space Shuttle External Tank (ET) during launch.

The SLS rocket incorporates technological investments from the Space Shuttle Program and the Constellation Program.

The third member of the Great Observatory family, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO), is deployed from a Space Shuttle and boosted into a high - Earth orbit.

It uses a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propulsion system, which includes the RS - 25D / E rocket engines from the Space Shuttle Program for the core stage and the J - 2X engine for the upper stage.

NASA's announcement today makes no mention of how much the vehicle will cost, but it attempts to allay concerns by saying that the program will significantly reduce development and operations costs by using «technological investments from the Space Shuttle program and the Constellation program.»

The engines used on initial SLS missions are flight engines remaining from the Space Shuttle Program, workhorse engines that are among the most proven in the world, having powered 135 space shuttle missions from 1981 to 2011.

This aurora (left), seen from the space shuttle, is a visible tracer of the otherwise invisible currents that pulse above Earth's poles.

James S. McDonnell Space Hangar, Chantilly, VA This offshoot of the justly famous National Air and Space Museum is not as convenient (located near Dulles International Airport), but it is larger, less crowded, and spectacular in its own right — filled with hundreds of unusual items, from the space shuttle Enterprise to space - grown crystals to old tubes of borscht made for Soviet cosmonauts.

NASA has subsequently shifted its long - term focus away from the space shuttle and the International Space Station toward the creation of a crew - carrying vehicle to fulfill its new mandate, and engineers at the agency are supremely confident that they have the technical know - how to build such a spacecraft.

A research team led by Romeiser was the first to accurately measure currents from a space shuttle platform between islands off the Dutch coast and the first to make current measurements using the radar on the TerraSAR - X satellite.

Similar principles are at work in devices ranging from the space shuttle to safety matches

Researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke up during reentry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crew members.

If you looked up on March 8, 2011, you might have a seen a bright streak across the sky as wastewater from the space shuttle Discovery was burned up in the atmosphere (which is acting as one huge incinerating toilet in this case).

From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA's new space capsule, take an entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.

The blunt - spoken civil engineer has spent more than a half - century investigating high - profile engineering failures, from the space shuttle Columbia's horrific end to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil - drilling rig in the Gulf.

Not exact matches

However, the agency takes things to the next level by animating things like shuttle take - offs, planets in rotation and shots from space.

The 22 - lb suit is pretty similar to the space shuttle flight suit, though it's used to protect people who fly inside Russia's Soyuz spacecraft (which NASA pays an increasingly hefty sum to use for its own astronauts» travel to and from the space station).

In 1998, he became the oldest person to fly in space when, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, he flew on the space shuttle Discovery.

These results came from the space - based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, sent to the International Space Station in May, 2011 on the space shuttle Endespace - based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, sent to the International Space Station in May, 2011 on the space shuttle EndeSpace Station in May, 2011 on the space shuttle Endespace shuttle Endeavor.

Expedition 15 to Seattle built upon the success of the previous year and included VIP tours of a number of leading entrepreneurial space companies, a Space Shuttle Trainer tour guided by a Space Shuttle pilot Greg Johnson, and special guests including Charles Simonyi, Michael Lopez - Alegria, Peter Diamandis, and key employees from SpaceX and Blue Orspace companies, a Space Shuttle Trainer tour guided by a Space Shuttle pilot Greg Johnson, and special guests including Charles Simonyi, Michael Lopez - Alegria, Peter Diamandis, and key employees from SpaceX and Blue OrSpace Shuttle Trainer tour guided by a Space Shuttle pilot Greg Johnson, and special guests including Charles Simonyi, Michael Lopez - Alegria, Peter Diamandis, and key employees from SpaceX and Blue OrSpace Shuttle pilot Greg Johnson, and special guests including Charles Simonyi, Michael Lopez - Alegria, Peter Diamandis, and key employees from SpaceX and Blue Origin.

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

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A NASA chief in charge of deciding whether to launch the Space Shuttle despite concerns from engineers.

The Charles Simonyi Space Gallery also includes multi-sensory exhibits that emphasize stories from the visionaries, designers, pilots and crews of the Space Shuttle.

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From Mama Smiles there is this amazing Cardboard Space Shuttle which would be the perfect Rocket Racing Car to go with the book including the lights in the dashboard.

The party came at a time when museum officials were trying to persuade the state to allow the construction of a building on a lot across the West Side Highway from the aircraft carrier to house the space shuttle Enterprise.

They plan, configure, install, and manage the robust secure traffic engineered MPLS Backbone that transport data, voice, and video from and to Space Shuttles, the International Space Station, the Deep Space Network and numerous Satellites as well as other «Man» and «Unmanned» space crSpace Shuttles, the International Space Station, the Deep Space Network and numerous Satellites as well as other «Man» and «Unmanned» space crSpace Station, the Deep Space Network and numerous Satellites as well as other «Man» and «Unmanned» space crSpace Network and numerous Satellites as well as other «Man» and «Unmanned» space crspace crafts.

Women in Space profiles 23 pioneers, including Eileen Collins, the first woman to command the space shuttle; Peggy Whitson, who logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station; and Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and Space profiles 23 pioneers, including Eileen Collins, the first woman to command the space shuttle; Peggy Whitson, who logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station; and Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and space shuttle; Peggy Whitson, who logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station; and Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and Space Station; and Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and more.

More than two dozen works of art ferried to and from (as well as created on) the International Space Station went on exhibit to benefit learning centers inspired by space shuttle ChallSpace Station went on exhibit to benefit learning centers inspired by space shuttle Challspace shuttle Challenger

Where the numbers really pile up is in the operation of Kennedy Space Center, which includes pumping 300,000 gallons of water to protect the shuttle from launch vibrations, moving the rockets, and keeping hundreds of tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen cool.

«Anyone under 50 here has never had a chance to work on a new space vehicle from the start,» says Greg Brauckmann, a NASA Langley aerodynamics and thermodynamics researcher who joined the agency in 1980, when the shuttle was already completed.

Atlantis has landed and the shuttle programme is over but it is far from the end of US space flight.

In getting back to the moon, NASA space planners face overwhelming challenges: The shuttle is scheduled for retirement in 2010, the Ares rocket will not be ready until at least four years later, there is tepid support from all sides in the looming presidential election, and current estimates put the cost of getting humans back to the moon at $ 100 billion.

With colorful characters, a heart - pounding technical glitch and a whiff of Cold War intrigue, White details the space shuttle program's evolution from idea to thrilling liftoff and safe landing.

But NASA chief Michael Griffin has said that the effects of the cuts will be felt across the board, from development of the shuttle replacement vehicles to the many space - science programs.

Why do we launch space shuttles from a place where the weather is such a constant source of trouble?

Veteran astronaut Andy Thomas, a crew member on this year's inaugural flight of the reengineered space shuttle, says that stars from dry, unpolluted earthly locations look as good as or better than they do through the shuttle's glass view port.

Here's a rundown of the top 11 spaceflight stories of 2011, from the last mission of NASA's venerable space shuttle program to China's first - ever docking of two spaceships in Earth orbit

From Sputnik through the space shuttle, mission designers used a method that Jerry Marsden, a Caltech mathematician, calls Buck Rogering.

She was talking about what it was like to look out from both sides of the space shuttle; as she put it, one window facing towards Earth and one window facing away from everything she knew.

The Australian telescope was one of several payloads carried into space by the shuttle Endeavour to observe ultraviolet radiation from stars and galaxies.

Now Winglee has the go - ahead from NASA to perfect what could be his most promising trick yet: using an 8 - inch magnet to propel spacecraft at speeds of up to 180,000 miles per hour — 10 times as fast as the space shuttle.

The «space station» is a primitive diatom of the species Stephanodiscus, and the «shuttle craft» are scales from algal cysts, dormant forms of algae.

I would love to see a regular upload of Nasa Images to a site like Flickr and I think it would really interest 1000s of young people, imagine browsing away and seeing an Image from the space station of a shuttle docking with perhaps a note from one of the astronauts.

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