Sentences with phrase «human mission on»

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

Not exact matches

Willow and Taro Postin are on a mission to sell human - grade food for pets.

Only after the Falcon Heavy is rigorously tested and SpaceX manages to deliver on its promises of cheaper space launches, a return to the moon, and a mission to Mars (or fail to, for that matter) will we be able to say for sure which rocket was the true champion of human space exploration.

«Turning over low - Earth orbit transportation to private industry also will allow NASA to focus on an even more ambitious mission - sending humans to Mars.»

Mission controllers at Johnson Space Center in Houston also want to raise their «situational awareness» of the crew — another way of saying they want better ways to spy on their precious human cargo.

Months - long testing of the system began in November at the energy department's Nevada National Security Site, with an eye toward providing energy for future human and robotic missions in space and on the surface of Mars, the moon or other solar system destinations.

Abdalati said that losing half of NASA's mission would mean giving up on part of what makes us human.

Our mission is to help your business be more successful with our friendly human touch on every interaction via phone, email or online chat.

Two is precision: if you are looking to run on a daily basis a human can not fly a mission accurately ten times.

The proposals doesn't involve flying humans to the moon like SpaceX's plans do, but is instead more focused on facilitating a series of cargo missions.

IBM is on a mission to create a sustainable culture of design and to bring a human - centered focus to its products and services.

Shortlist is on a mission to unlock professional potential and combines technology, data and a human touch to source and screen great job - seekers for growing, purposeful companies across India and East Africa.

Farhan Thawar is a technologist - turned - entrepreneur on a mission to make communications more human.

«While most artificial intelligence approaches focus on replacing humans, our mission at CognitiveScale is to deliver breakthrough business outcomes by the pairing of people and machines,» said Akshay Sabhikhi, CEO, CognitiveScale.

Among its targets was an entity associated with the United Nations missions on sanctions and human rights.

Those questions involve the nature of the PRC regime; the doctrine and canon law of the Church; the impact of such an agreement on Vatican diplomacy in promoting human rights; and the Church's twenty - first - century mission in China.

Release International is an advocacy movement on behalf of the persecuted church, formerly known as Christian Mission to the Communist World which is part of the International Christian Association, a global alliance of fifty ministries working among the persecuted church These organisations will often urge readers to write to their MP or the appropriate ambassador to register concern at the way human rights are being flouted.

We know that its faceless agents are «out there» — though we do not know quite where even now — on missions that sacrifice persons to ideology, human relationships to «contacts» and «assets,» hearts and minds to the gears of the propaganda machine.

The founder of PayPal is on a mission to protect the human race from extinction.

U.N. experts in Geneva were at it again last week telling the Holy See that Catholic teaching on abortion is a human rights abuse, revealing a chasm between the Church's understanding of its mission and how U.N. officials perceive it.

We covered a lot of ground this week, and we told a lot of stories, but there are still many stories we didn't tell — stories of human trafficking and sex slavery, stories of men abused by women, stories of redemption and reconciliation, stories of abuse on the mission field.

All these spiritual reserves, guessed at and faintly apprehended, what are they but the sure evidence that creation is still on the move, but that we are not yet capable of expressing all the natural grandeur of the human mission?

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

As a meditation on human origins as somehow alien, Prometheus most closely compares to Brian De Palma's much maligned Mission to Mars, but in comparison to that movie the «engineers» in Prometheus have no care for mere human life or for life on the planet earth as a whole.

Fifthly, the Eucharist as action is given an imperative quality in that it results in a «sending out» or a mission received by the worshipers, which they are to carry on in their daily life of witness and work in the world of human affairs.

Why then should we insist on speaking of the human mission of «completing, through our work the work finished on the sixth day, as if God had created nature in such a way as to leave to humanity the margin, the risk, and the honor of this artifice?

It carries on mission work in most of the countries of the world, has hospitals, colleges, and other schools in many lands, and has done much for the amelioration of human suffering as well as for the propagation of its faith.

It would make more sense if Jesus, a compassionate human being, offered himself to the blood - thursty God as a self - sacrifice for the benefit of all mankind, but the Christian understanding of the mission God sent his son on, and its purpose, is just wonky.

Shaw's outstanding musicianship, deeply spiritual and human qualities and sense of mission have inspired those whose lives he has touched to carry on his legacy and his ministry with love, devotion and integrity.

[38] Animal Welfare Institute, Aims (Animal Welfare Institute, 2007, accessed April 14 2007); available from http://www.awionline.org/aims.htm. Their mission is ``... to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.»

The group's co-founder, Bas Landsorp, said that it was difficult, out of the 200,000 applicants, to tell between «those who we feel are physically and mentally adept to become human ambassadors on Mars from those who are obviously taking the mission much less seriously.»

HUMAN Healthy Vending's co-founders are on a mission to ensure that people have access to healthy foods everywhere, particularly in food deserts.

Because HUMAN Healthy Vending co-founders Sean Kelly and Andy Mackensen know that there is a link between low access to nutritious foods and childhood obesity, they are on a mission to place these machines in areas where people need access to healthful meals the most, including in areas designated as food deserts.

This website will be of interest to human rights organizations who are interested in partnering with scientific societies on specific activities, such as fact - finding missions or letterwriting campaigns.

While the One - Year Mission has concluded for retired astronaut Scott Kelly, NASA's Human Research Program is focusing on comparing previous six - month mission findings to One - Year Mission preliminary fiMission has concluded for retired astronaut Scott Kelly, NASA's Human Research Program is focusing on comparing previous six - month mission findings to One - Year Mission preliminary fimission findings to One - Year Mission preliminary fiMission preliminary findings.

On such missions, they assess treatment practices and human rights conditions in psychiatric institutions and other social service programs.

Thanks to the Apollo missions, 12 humans have walked on the moon's surface, but only two people have explored the deepest depths of our oceans.

, who chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee responsible for funding the Defense Department and who does not believe that warming is human - induced, has long complained that too much of DOE's budget is frittered away on programs to boost energy efficiency or alternative fuels — which he says have little to do with the military's mission.

The finding could help reduce health risks to humans on future missions into deep space.

Chamberland's first expedition, Atlantica 1, planned for the summer of 2014, aims to send three aquanauts on a 100 - day underwater mission, longer than any yet recorded, to test «systems intended for permanent human residence of the undersea world.»

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

Plants will play a critical role in the survival of human beings on long - duration space missions, such as a mission to Mars.

In the newly reconstituted Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program, the missions of the CSFR and NCLS continue to complement one another as staff pursue projects such as continuing seminars for judges on neuroscience and the law, personalized medicine, the state and future of clinical trials, advocacy in science, understanding responsible research practices in changing research environments, and joint AAAS - China Association of Science and Technology workshops on science and ethics.

If the plan comes to fruition, the first astronauts to step out of a Golden Spike lander could be the first human beings to set foot on the moon since the final Apollo mission in 1972.

Smaller missions, such as to Kenya (1988) to attend an inquest into the death of a man who had been tortured and document how the court applied the medical evidence, and to the Sudan (1990) to investigate the jailing of physicians and scientists, provided experiences for AAAS to contribute directly to individual human rights cases as well as learn lessons on the political and cultural complexities of human rights work.

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«A private - landed mission on Mars would already be a grand thing, even if there are no humans on board.

The meeting continued the following day with presentations, workshops, and working meetings on human rights issues central to the mission of the Coalition.

Researchers say the spacecraft fleet currently orbiting the Red Planet are aging and there are no replacements in the works, imperiling future Mars landers, rovers and even possible human missions that will depend on orbiters to talk to Earth.

If Congress votes to take Tito up on his offer, it could help return a sense of purpose to the US human space programme: despite talk of a NASA mission to the vicinity of Mars in the 2030s or sending crew to an asteroid, SLS currently has no firm destination.