Sentences with phrase «from space flight»

She will discuss the Systems Biology approaches currently used to understand the Omics results from space flight model systems (rodent, fruit fly etc) in the context of tissue response (i.e. muscle, liver, other vital organs).

Orbital Sciences has docked a craft with the space station and a SpaceX rocket failed a reusability test — but could still help cut waste from space flight

Not exact matches

While it is banned from flying in European Union air space, Air Koryo has regular international flights to Moscow, Vladivostok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and even Kuwait, according to the International Business Times.

SpaceShipOne itself suffered several such problems in its three space flights, including the loss of its navigation system, a sudden lurch that carried the ship some 30 miles off course, the buckling of the aircraft's skin from the rocket motor's heat, and an uncontrolled wobble that spun the craft around at high speed some 20 times before pilot Melvill — he flew the first prize - winning flight, Binnie the second — stilled it, possibly just in time to prevent a fatal tumble.

From 1960 to 1962, the Marshall Space Flight Center began designing the rockets that would eventually be used by the Apollo Program.

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).

«This is going to be ultimately a huge revolution in space flight,» Musk said during a webcast from the launch control center at Cape Canaveral immediately after the Falcon 9's autonomous touchdown.

Movie Budgets «Courage under Fire»: $ 46m «Saving Private Ryan»: $ 70m «Titan AE»: $ 75m «Syriana»: $ 50m «Green Zone»: $ 100m «Elysium»: $ 115m «Interstellar»: $ 165m «The Martian»: $ 108m TOTAL: $ 729m Fictional Costs of Saving Matt Damon (costs are in 2015 currency) «Courage Under Fire» (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue): $ 300k «Saving Private Ryan» (WW2 Europe search party): $ 100k «Titan AE» (Earth evacuation spaceship): $ 200B «Syriana» (Middle East private security return flight): $ 50k «Green Zone» (US Army transport from Middle East): $ 50k «Elysium» (Space station security deployment and damages): $ 100m «Interstellar» (Interstellar spaceship): $ 500B «The Martian» (Mars mission): $ 200B TOTAL: $ 900B plus change

Falcon 9 — tentatively scheduled for March 8 at Florida's Cape Canaveral — would pave the way for 12 supply flights carrying a minimum of 20 tons to and from the International Space Station, per the company's $ 1.6 billion NASA contract.

Aside from the Marshall Space Flight Center, which employs around 6,000 people and has an annual budget of $ 2.5 billion, Hunstville is also home to the Redstone Arsental, a major army base that has offices for more than 60 federal agencies on its «campus.»

Just as he had his family's support from his childhood to his earliest business ventures to his space flights today, Branson aims to provide encouragement and inspiration for other entrepreneurs.

It's a safe and secure escape away from the noise and bustle of their airport, as well as being a space to relax and rejuvenate while you're waiting for that delayed flight.

SpaceX's next flight to the space station, its fifth delivery flight so far, is set to launch at 4:47 a.m. EST (0947 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 10) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Multiple live animals from the same family are permitted on the same aircraft; however it is possible that, due to space or weight constraints, the passenger and pets may not be able to be accommodated on any particular flight.

As front - woman Yuki delivers her spaced out vocals sometimes in Japanese, sometimes in English, the swelling guitars ice over the zoning drums and bass to create the special music you would hear in your in - flight headphones traveling from Japan to the moon.

Working with Yale he received funding from NASA to write algorithms for virtual surgery, so that astronauts could be cut in robotics pods for deep space flights.

So there's this crawl space in my house, just to the left as you head out the back door, down a flight of stairs that jut out from the loam...

It was further reinforced by spirituality's flight from science (again, partially justified since Newton's absolute space and absolute time concepts were once again too objective for the mystic's intuitive life — an insight that Einstein has since confirmed).

This is not to say that we are advocating a flight away from the facts into the realm of the fantastic but rather a reminder to the teacher to be aware of the gap that has to be constantly bridged between the ways of thinking and feeling of our own age and climate and those of peoples removed from us in space and time.

In a society that has moved from horse and buggy to space flight in a single life - span, more and more people regard as archaic any church which seems to locate the golden age or complete revelation somewhere in the past.

So there's this crawl space in my house, just to the left as you head out the back door, down a flight of stairs that jut out from the loam of the earth.

A major aspect of the proof of concept flight, Veg - 01, is to collect baseline microbial data from plants and pillows grown on the International Space Station (ISS).

His experience spanned 18 years 6 months from September 1997 — February 2016 at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland as a Telecommunications Service Manager — Mission Routed Data Network (NASA Integrated Services Network).

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have published their results online in the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Planets.

The team, led by Alan Kogut of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, took measurements with a radio antenna named ARCADE that dangled from a high - altitude balloon over eastern Texas in July 2006.

For its part, NASA — whether through inertia or out of practicality — seems unwilling to shift the focus of its human space - flight efforts away from the Moon.

«These findings demonstrate once again the value of studying the moon from orbit long - term,» said John Keller, the LRO project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

OSIRIS - REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS)-- An instrument provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and designed to measure visible and infrared light from Bennu to identify mineral and organic material.

«The wet season has typically 85 to over 95 percent cloudiness from late morning to early afternoon, when NASA satellites make measurements,» said co-author and remote sensing specialist Alexei Lyapustin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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

«The ice cores obtained through international collaborations were critical to the success of this study in that they allowed us to develop records from parts of Antarctica not often visited by U.S. - based scientists,» said co-author Tom Neumann of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who participated in a Norway - U.S. traverse that collected several of the cores used in this study.

«We think we are seeing the collective light from millions of the first objects to form in the universe,» explains Alexander Kashlinsky of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, who details the finding in the current issue of Nature.

That gibe earned laughs from the crowd but drew a rebuke from retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles, a member of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee (aka the Augustine Commission), the group that recently advised Obama on NASA's options for manned spaceflight.

Ultraviolet radiation could strip not only the water vapor from a habitable M dwarf planet, but also the oxygen and nitrogen in just tens of millions of years, astrophysicist Vladimir Airapetian of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues suggested in the February 10 Astrophysical Journal Letters.

A team led by astronomer Kenji Hamaguchi of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, used the XMM - Newton and Chandra x-ray satellites to study a stellar nursery just 550 light - years from Earth.

This launch system is designed to haul six customers and two pilots on suborbital space flights, allowing an out - of - the - seat, zero - gravity experience and out - the - window views of Earth from the black sky of space.

ISRO is seeking $ 2.5 billion from the government for a human space flight program; officials say that astronauts could be sent into space 7 years after final approval is given.

According to astrophysicist Alexander Kashlinsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, something from way beyond the edge seems to be pulling powerfully on galaxies in our universe, yanking them along in a motion he calls «dark flow.»

«If breakdown weathering occurs on the moon, then it has important implications for our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system, especially in extremely cold regions that are exposed to harsh radiation from space,» says coauthor Timothy Stubbs of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Cespace,» says coauthor Timothy Stubbs of the NASA Goddard Space Flight CeSpace Flight Center.

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.

A rocket built by a group of Danish space enthusiasts reached an altitude of 2 kilometres on its maiden flight last week from its base in the Baltic Sea.

Northrop Grumman now reportedly has teams working on the telescope 24 hours a day, and they will soon be joined by additional personnel from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which manages the Webb project.

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.

The new observations are «going to enable great comparisons with what we saw from the Galileo spacecraft 20 years ago — and Voyager 20 years before that,» says Amy Simon, an expert in planetary atmospheres at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

In a complementary paper, astrophysicist John Connerney of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues look at how Jupiter's magnetic field interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles flowing from the sun.

In the new study, co-author Katrina Virts, an atmospheric scientist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was analyzing data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, a network of sensors that locates lightning strokes all over the globe, when she noticed a nearly straight line of lightning strokes across the Indian Ocean.

In April 2015, the entire system was flown on a research rocket for a 6 - minute parabolic flight into space as part of the TEXUS program that launches from the Esrange Space Center in Swspace as part of the TEXUS program that launches from the Esrange Space Center in SwSpace Center in Sweden.

«The American payloads — from universities and the Goddard Space Flight Center — were disassembled first,» said Ted Stapinski, managing director of Auspace in Canberra.

Dean Pesnell, project scientist for SDO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., explained why Comet ISON wasn't visible in SDO and what could be learned from that: SDO is tuned to see wavelengths of light that would indicate the presence of oxygen, which is very common in comets.