Sentences with phrase «in flight missions»

An instant hit in the UK, this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight missions, and survived everything from crash - landings to parachute bailouts - ultimately saving the life of his owner and dearest friend.

Not exact matches

A Delta - operated flight from New York to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and back, made headlines for narrowly avoiding the storm in a mission to evacuate another plane - full of passengers from the area ahead of Irma's landfall.

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

The company, founded in 2002, has already had six missions in 2018, notably its February demonstration test flight of the Falcon Heavy, a powerful new rocket with three reusable side boosters designed to carry heavier payloads.

My goal was that when I got back, I wanted for the flight director that I had in the beginning of the flight to talk to the flight director at the end of the mission.

Saturday's flight marks the third successful launch - and - land for the rocket, with similar missions completed in January and November.

Although it's not clear whether this ability has already been translated into an operational capability, in 2015, a USAF EC - 130H Compass Call aircraft has also been involved in demos where it attacked networks from the air: a kind of in - flight hacking capability that could be particularly useful to conduct cyberwarfare missions where the Electronic Attack aircraft injects malware by air - gapping closed networks.

Maybe they had just intercepted it in a simulated VID mission, or they were simply shadowing or filming a test flight.

It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

Gonzalez said three are immigrants; jurors» occupations include flight attendant, software engineer, nurse, marketing accountant and health economist; and they live in a variety of neighborhoods, from Visitacion Valley, Bernal Heights and the Excelsior to the Mission District, Russian Hill and Nob Hill.

AirMap and Project Wing UTM systems successfully planned and de-conflicted flight plans within the same airspace using an open source, distributed, peer - to - peer system to perform a multitude of missions, including surveys and package delivery in close proximity.

Mission is making solidarity with poor people in their flight for justice.

Best Deep - Reading for a Long Flight: The Atlantic Monthly's November issue and Jon Lee Anderson's breathtaking feature article, «The Mission» in The New Yorker

Danchi, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is running simulations for the Fourier - Kelvin Stellar Interferometer, a proposed space mission that could lay the groundwork for the search for Earth - like worlds in the next decade.

Several other Canadians are working on concepts for future missions in general that have not yet been manifested for flight.

Following the April 1990 flight that deployed Hubble in orbit, which was piloted by current NASA administrator Charles Bolden, five servicing missions have traveled to the telescope.

«Having two very similar missions at the same time is not ideal,» says Colleen Wilson - Hodge, an astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and a member of the STROBE - X team.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the agency's New Frontiers Program for the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

When JSC became inaccessible due to dangerous road conditions and rising flood waters, the team at Marshall Space Flight Center's Payload Operations Integration Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who serve as «Mission Control» for all station research, worked to connect Wallace to Whitson using Wallace's personal cell phone.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the program for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Similarly, Gordon Chin, a project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, proposed a mission that would explain why the same chemical processes that destroy ozone in Earth's atmosphere stabilize carbon dioxide in Venus's.

«The presence of neon in the exosphere of the moon has been a subject of speculation since the Apollo missions, but no credible detections were made,» said Mehdi Benna of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Mega's decision to move in March to Google was one in a string of announcements by top - flight scientists and physicians who are enlisting in the mission, and pioneering a new type of career path in the process.

A few hours later, however, on - board safety systems turned the spacecraft toward Earth and re-established contact with mission control at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

He spent the next 10 years at JPL, participating in assembly, test, and launch operations for Mars missions and acting as flight director for Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity and surface mission manager for Mars lander Phoenix.

That mission turned out not to be ready in time, but a lot of people wanted to continue with solar sailing, as did I, but I didn't want to spend time on it unless I had a flight opportunity.

The first crewed flight for SLS and Orion would be in 2021 or 2022 as part of this mission, which the agency sees as a step towards a human mission to Mars in the 2030s.

NASA's Explorer Program at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., provides overall management of the IRIS mission.

Adding wings made of glass or other refractive materials in flight would allow astronomers to better steer future space missions, the team reports online today in Nature Photonics.

This mission was the fourth cargo flight to the station by a Dragon spacecraft, counting the first test flight in May 2012.

Dave Folta, a senior aerospace engineer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, says they are planning to use Howell's techniques — which he admiringly calls «highfalutin math» — for at least four missions over the next decade, including the Next Generation Space Telescope, scheduled to replace the Hubble Space Telescope in eight years.

Two of the space shuttle's 123 flights have ended in fatal catastrophe; the Columbia disaster happened just a year after the previous Hubble repair mission.

Back on Earth, the mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (which built the spacecraft and operates the mission for NASA) along with the Flight Software (FSW) and Radio Frequency (RF) Teams, have recently made some improvements in getting the science teams more data.

A preview of this type of mission capabilities occurred during the Orion Exploration Flight Test - 1 (EFT - 1) in December 2014.

«Finding and publicizing new supernova discoveries is often the weak link in obtaining rapid observations, but once we know about it, Swift frequently can observe a new object within hours,» said Neil Gehrels, the mission's principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

Pharmaceuticals are packed in compact flight kits during missions, not in the manufacturers» packaging.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will monitor the landing of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko from their Year in Space Mission.

Spending nearly a year in space, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his mission.

«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.

CIBER flew four missions in all; the paper includes results from the second and third of CIBER's flights, launched in 2010 and 2012 from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and recovered afterward by parachute.

Thereby, we will be able to reduce the size of systems based on terahertz quantum - cascade lasers in the future — an important point for flight missions such as SOFIA,» Wienold emphasizes.

«Over the next few years, major new astronomical facilities exploring other wavelengths will complement Fermi and give us our best look yet into the most powerful events in the universe,» said Julie McEnery, the mission's project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

Within 200 seconds, the satellite began collecting the first x-ray images of a burst's early stages, says mission director Neil Gehrels of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The next Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station is Orbital - 3 which is targeted to begin Oct. 14 when Orbital Sciences will launch its Cygnus spacecraft from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Ironically, the first mission in years that had much scientific research aboard was STS - 107, the final, tragic flight of Columbia.

Astronauts already provide blood and urine samples before and after flight so scientists can examine changes to their metabolism, but Dragon's cold stowage capability will allow scientists to examine samples returned in the middle of the crew's mission.

Today's inaugural flight of Europe's Vega rocket went off without a hitch as European Space Agency mission VV01 lit up the early morning sky above the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

Only one will be chosen for flight as the fourth mission in the planetary exploration program; the APL - led New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt was the first New Frontiers mission ever selected.

Researchers from the Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia will also be at the conference, highlighting unmanned aircraft for use in science missions.