Sentences with phrase «job as an astronaut»

But in reality, I didn't know how one might make the leap from rural North Carolina to a job as an astronaut.

Robots can do the same job as astronauts, says program manager Preston Burch.

Not exact matches

Until then, aspiring astronauts will have to make do with being rocket scientists (more prosaicly known as aerospace engineers), a job with healthy growth prospects.

Toward that end he works full - time as explorer - in - residence for the National Geographic Society, holding perhaps the only job - with - benefits on par with astronaut for pure adventure and thrill.

Astronaut is a new job title for her, but her experience includes work as an EE for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she contributed scientific instruments on several NASA missions.

These findings show that lengthy spaceflight indeed affects cardiovascular responses, but not as dramatically as the researchers predicted, suggesting that the intensive exercise routines astronauts on these long missions complete every day are doing their job.

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst will serve as commander of the International Space Station in 2018, making him the first German to hold the job.

Though the mumbo - jumbo opening voiceover left me confused as to what Bradley Cooper's job is (he seems to have been an astronaut and Air Force pilot who's now a private contractor designated to help Bill Murray build rocket - launching platforms in Hawaii), «Aloha» starts off pretty swell.