Sentences with phrase «how space flight»

Plus, we'll be showcasing a selection of free resources to challenge your pupils to solve real - world problems, and encourage a deeper understanding of how space flight leads to innovation here on Earth.

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Micra, a device which manufacturer and medical device giant Medtronic calls the world's smallest pacemaker (it's a one - inch long product that doesn't contain any leads), is being sent to the final frontier to examine how it's affected by high radiation and low temperatures during space flight.

Odd that there wasn't a chorus about how government, in the form of NASA, was unable to handle space flight back then, or even back when there were other disasters and failures in our spaceflight program.

Japan may have inspired Woodroffe, but the actual catalyst was, in fact, an upgrade on a British Airways flight that left him «amazed at how luxurious design could be in a compact space,» said Berrington.

For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer — an artifact that ultimately helped explain how the deadly incident happened.

With all these innovative leaders, you can hear about the best practices to optimization innovation across different forms of industry, how material science is changing the world of innovation, and how innovation takes flight into the new space economy.

Airlines could also carry activity books for kids, perhaps even with a focus on air travel that gently gets home important messages, such as what space on a plane is yours, how noise travels, and how nice it is to nap in flight.

PitchFX tracks the flight of the ball through three - dimensional space; it is presented as a spot on a two - dimensional plane because that's how the networks and Brooks Baseball and others choose to present it.

«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.

Now a team led by William Farrell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has modelled how dust could be thrown up at the moon's poles, where the solar wind blows horizontally over crater rims.

My brief flight through space and time inspired me to think about this sort of alarmingly frequent stupid driving trick — specifically, how things like this should by now have been rendered obsolete by automation.

«The exact number depends on how hard the solar wind is blowing,» says LENA team member Thomas Moore of Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, but the team figures that indeed about one in 10,000 protons becomes a hydrogen atom en route to Earth.

«The interesting thing is what happens next, how the remaining ice shelf responds,» said Kelly Brunt, a glaciologist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the University of Maryland in College Park.

A major concern for long - duration space flight is how the microorganisms who hitch a ride with us will adapt to the loss of gravity.

A new simulation created by scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reveals just how far around the globe such aerosol particles can fly on the wind.

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.

«This possibility, combined with what we already know about how microgravity affects muscles and bones, paints a very bleak future for human space flight unless we start to develop effective countermeasures.»

Scientists are learning how to detect and recognize those waves by studying supercomputer models run at two NASA campuses, the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

X-ray and gamma - ray astronomers use the Crab Nebula as a standard, says astrophysicist Colleen Wilson - Hodge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, so «we need to rethink how we calibrate our instruments.»

«It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon,» said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Using this input, a sophisticated computer model developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, was used to determine which areas receive direct sunlight, how much solar radiation reaches the surface, and how the conditions change over the course of a year on Ceres.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule's mission to the space station includes a clever mouse cell experiment that investigates how years of space flight affects humans

«This is a major advance in our understanding of what processes can energize the solar atmosphere, and lays the foundation for investigations with even more detail to determine how big of a role spicules play,» said Adrian Daw, IRIS mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«It's anybody's guess how they are doing it,» says Reggie Edgerton, a physiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied muscle atrophy in humans during space flight.

«We think it's quite possible that the radio beam is narrower than the gamma - ray emission, but we don't yet know how gamma rays are produced in the pulsar,» says Fermi project scientist Steve Ritz of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«I think this substantiates that there is a reason to determine how much of a risk infection might prove to space flight,» says Janet Butel, a virologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, US.

«Right now it's too early in the season to say anything definitive about how [the 2001] hole will come out,» atmospheric physicist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center observes.

Nonetheless, a few years ago, Mauersberger took a two - day workshop from Marc Kuchner, astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and author of Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times.

«In theory, if you know how much energy is coming in from the sun, and how much is reflected or radiated away, the difference is how much is heating or cooling the planet,» says Adam Szabo, a heliophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«If you're spending your research time chatting with your friends or trying to impress people just for the sake of trying to impress people, you're probably not helping your career,» Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland in the United States and author of Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

How about using a tractor beam to simply steer future junk aside, says space - flight engineer John Sinko of Nagoya University, Japan.

«Our study provides a solid estimate of how much water Mars once had, by determining how much water was lost to space,» said Geronimo Villanueva, first author of the paper and scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryspace,» said Geronimo Villanueva, first author of the paper and scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MarySpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«We're seeing something that goes against how we think about how our solar system formed,» says lead study author Hannah Wakeford, a postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

It's the fast - moving ice that determines how the ice sheet responds to climate change on a short timescale,» said Robert Bindschadler, a NASA scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, one of the study's co-authors.

At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, scientists work to validate, host and improve such simulations, and this new information provides the most comprehensive look to date at how the speed of a CME evolves over time.

This tool really engages the parasympathetic nervous system, pulls me out of fight or flight and allows me the space to act how I want to instead of my frenzied default.

See how well critics are rating all PC video game releases at A space flight simulation game is a genre of flight simulator video games that lets players experience space flight to varying degrees of realism.

On my way to a recent flight, while I was frantically putting my shoes back on among a pushy crowd in that tiny space past the scanning machine, my mind began to wander from its immediate train of thought (which, at that moment, included a fantasy involving my shoe coming into contact with the person's head behind me) to one that was slightly more peaceful and productive: How can the process of flying be improved outside of the plane?

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In case you were wondering how such a name was formed, Firemint, the original developer of the first two Real Racing games and the criminally - addictive Flight control, was recently merged with Iron Monkey, who developed the mobile version of Dead Space.

Many today have forgotten just how alone the Earth is in space, as photos from early space flights showed us so vividly.

Perhaps more importantly, consider how much greenhouse gas is going to be dumped in the atmosphere, to the detriment of everyone and all life on Earth, by each of these space flights; all for a few minutes pleasure for one man.

The new ideas provoked a few scientists to take a look at how the upper atmosphere might be affected by another ambitious project — the hundreds of space shuttle flights that NASA hoped to launch.

So imagine how pleased I was to be invited to speak at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center this week — where the kindly, soft - spoken and brilliant Willy Wonka of the place, astrophysicistJohn Mather, and his team are building the James Webb Space Telescope — perhaps humanity's most ambitious engineering project — and where scientists use satellites to study climate change in incredible detail.

«The rain shaft -LSB-...] is any rain event, no matter how modest or foreboding, that can be seen stretching from the cloud to the ground,» wrote Huffman, a research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.