Sentences with phrase «golden spike»

«We can give countries an expedition to surface of the moon for two people,» Alan Stern, the co-founder of Golden Spike and NASA's former chief scientists told Wired.

Today's announcement, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC backs up recent rumours that Alan Stern, a former administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, had founded a company called Golden Spike in Colorado to run commercial moon trips.

While attending the University of Washington, MLB 2K9's cover athlete Tim Lincecum won the coveted Golden Spikes Award which is given to the nation's top college baseball player.

Hurdler sets personal best to join likes of Allyson Felix and Bohdan Bondarenko in claiming victory at Golden Spike meeting

Named for the final spike driven into the first US transcontinental railroad line, Golden Spike plans to market to governments, corporations and individuals to routinely send people to the moon for scientific purposes, to mine for resources or simply for prestige.

One, called Golden Spike, plans to sell billion - dollar trips to the moon to other nations.

«The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do - it - yourself Apollo programs for other countries,» he says.

That approach makes Golden Spike most like NASA, since the company will be buying off - the - shelf hardware and creating missions for large government agencies.

The food menu features your traditional pub fare with a twist, including Golden Spike onion rings, vegan wings, and Fried Mormon Funeral Potatoes ™.

Bob Hill, a broker / owner with Golden Spike Realty in Sunset, estimated an even darker outlook.

Leland Stanford drove the ceremonial Golden Spike in and the first Transcontinental Railroad was completed.

Golden Spike Rail Cart was there, selling vegan food, and from what I saw, it looked pretty good (From what I understand, that was their last weekend selling food from the cart.

Golden Spike needs to raise $ 8 billion before its first rocket lifts off.

Biology, magnetism and the chemistry of isotopes are the markers geologists typically use to tell the tale of changeovers in deep time, whether the Ordovician period or the Anthropocene epoch (the latter just a small slice of the Quaternary period that began more than 2.5 million years ago and has its own golden spike in Sicily).

That may prove the Holocene's undoing as an epoch, if the Anthropocene's golden spike turns out to be widespread burning or agriculture, both of which occupy large swathes of Holocene time.

In addition to Stern and Griffin, Golden Spike counts among its advisers politician Newt Gingrich, former House Science Committee Chair Bob Walker, former Space Shuttle Program Chief Wayne Hale, a Star Trek set designer, and Nancy Conrad, founder of the Conrad Foundation and widow of Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad.

The company, named Golden Spike after the ceremonial railway spike that marked the completion of the first transcontinental railway, would send two - person crews to the lunar surface and back at a cost of $ 750 million per passenger.

Golden Spike intends to have the first customers on the moon by 2020, a plan that hinges on the use of currently existing (or «soon to be existing») launch vehicles, spacecraft and technologies.

It's not a real golden spike but a line of darker shale and a marker of these graptolites» significance as what's called an index fossil: Wherever such a fossil is found a geologist can be sure those rocks are of a certain age.

Golden Spike wrote a concept paper that has been accepted for publication in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics's Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets that discussed using the Falcon Heavy in the context of a moon mission, but Stern cautioned that no official announcement has been made as to which launch vehicle the new company will use.

As NASA targets other destinations, the potential benefits for lunar science — if Golden Spike can realize its lofty ambitions — are huge.

But Stern says he's confident that robots will get to the moon's surface long before the first Golden Spike flights at the end of the decade.

Golden Spike now has several experienced directors and advisors, including Gerry Griffin, former director of NASA's Johnson Spaceflight Center, and Wayne Hale, former chief of NASA's space shuttle programme.

No corporate sponsors have stepped up yet, but preliminary talks are under way to sell seats to space agencies in Asia and Europe, says Golden Spike CEO and former NASA science chief Alan Stern.

Alan Stern is back to tell us about Golden Spike, his new company that plans to put human clients on the surface of the moon by the end of this decade.

Top Ten Chinese Language Films, Hong Kong Film Festival Luis Buñuel Special Award, Cannes Film Festival Golden Spike, Valladolid International Film Festival Best Foreign Feature Film (Amanda), Norwegian International Film Festival Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival

Those are the signature products of Golden Spike and Uwingu, two of his companies.

May 10: Utah's Golden Spike National Historic Site commemorates the 145th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, one of the earliest examples of a staged media spectacle, with reenactments, ceremonies and live music.

Golden Spike plans to send a two - seat lander to the moon, staging material in Earth orbit using commercial rockets.

Nowhere is that more evident than at Golden Spike, established by Alan Stern, principal investigator on the New Horizons mission currently en route to Pluto and a former NASA administrator.

And yet that also makes Golden Spike the least like NASA, since it is a purely commercial venture aimed at making space exploration accessible to anyone who can cover the price tag.

-- Ed Dayton, Century 21 — Golden Spike Realty, Sunset, Utah

One recent entrant is the Golden Spike Company, a Boulder - based start - up that plans to offer human expeditions to the moon.

Now, according to the company mission, «Golden Spike will exploit these advances, and others in the late stages of development, for commercial use, to offer human expeditions to the Moon at prices comparable to robotic flagship missions.»

Unlike more consumer - focused space exploration missions, like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — which will take passengers into sub-orbital spaceflight for $ 200,000 — Golden Spike's founder says its company's clientele will be comprised mainly of governments and corporations.

Golden Spike is hardly the first start - up in the last several years to make space travel and a lunar landing its mission.

Although the golden spike of the transcontinental railroad uniting the western United States with the East was driven at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, in 1869, the state still is not in touch with all the trends back East, teases Reid Steenblik, president of family owned Restaurant & Store Equipment Co..

being selected All SEC and College WS most outstanding player in 2014, then being a finalist for the golden spikes award in 2015 isn't much of an accomplishment.

As a senior at Wichita State in 1993, playing in his hometown, at the school where his father, John, was and still is a professor of history, Darren went 11 - 1 with a 2.48 ERA and, as the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur player.

The multiple Olympic gold medallists spoke with the press ahead of the Golden Spike meeting in Czech Republic

Next, the researchers need to find a «golden spike,» a unique boundary point in the rock strata that signifies the epoch's beginning.

That golden spike will likely come from radioactive particles spread around the globe by atmospheric nuclear tests in the 1950s, starting off our geologic reign with a bang.

There is a golden spike hiding in a rock face outside the village of Moffat in Scotland that marks the end of the Ordovician, denoted by the appearance of these graptolite survivors — Akidograptus ascensus and Parakidograptus acuminatus, to give them their scientific names.

Gerry Griffin, chair of the Golden Spike board and former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, concurred.

Swindles even has a spot that might make for a good location to host a golden spike in the geologic timescale: Malham Tarn, the highest glacial lake in England situated in the Yorkshire Dales.

That's why Zalasiewicz, among others, thinks the Anthropocene should date from this «golden spike» — a clear record in the rock that can be found everywhere in the world.