Sentences with phrase «many other astronauts»

He acknowledged being haunted by the deaths of the two shuttle crews and of close friend Grissom, killed with two other astronauts in the 1967 fire during a test countdown for what was to have been Apollo 1.

Everyone else — the other astronauts who spent the term of their mission aboard the ISS as something other than a launchpad for a public speaking career — will shake their heads, embarrassed at the display: mortifying, needy, totally typifying Hadfield's tour of duty as Canada's first - ever ISS commander.

Like Pogue (and no doubt many other astronauts after him), at some point they'll likely have to grit their teeth, swallow hard and get back to work.

He] was the other astronaut that I actually met while with a whole bunch of people on an eclipse — solar eclipse — expedition; and he was one of the speakers on this thing, and the question came up about what he took away from it personally.

In a new paper in Scientific Reports, FSU Dean of the College of Human Sciences and Professor Michael Delp explains that the men who traveled into deep space as part of the lunar missions were exposed to levels of galactic cosmic radiation that have not been experienced by any other astronauts or cosmonauts.

For more stories about some of the other astronauts currently in space, check out the August 31st episode of the daily SciAm podcast.

When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind - bending trek through space and time.

That's the main story, but you also have the other astronauts» points of view as well as NASA's back on Earth.

However, the helmet on Damon's spacesuit does seem to be bigger than other astronaut suits we've seen before, so I wonder what function that serves.

On the 18th day of their Ares III exploration of the red planet, Mark Watney and the five other astronauts get caught outside in a severe storm.

Dr. David Bowman (Keir Dullea), Dr. Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood), and three other astronauts, in a state of cyrogenic slumber, are on a secret mission guided by the ship's talking computer, HAL 9000 (voiced by Douglas Rain).

The other astronauts disappear completely for a chunk in the middle and it's kind of jarring when they show back up — there's not a ton of urgency in the space shuttle scenes, but it's not nearly as out of whack as the plot imbalance in Interstellar.

An education mission specialist is someone who, along with all her other astronaut jobs, gets to focus on education.

It could also be said by the many other astronauts who have been part of various space programs that have launched them into distances most of us can only imagine; that most of us look at in...

But while other astronaut animals have received memorials for their service, Félicette has gone unrecognized.

It's funny that the other astronauts who walked on the moon aren't household names.

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The reality of an astronaut's job is all about being on Earth and preparing and helping other people fly in space and supporting them and training each other.

Another one of Elon Musk's rockets may have recently blown up, depriving astronauts of much needed supplies, but at least he can be happy about one of his other transportation - related pursuits.

In 2016, Allstate created a #MarchMayhem hashtag on Twitter where they had former astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Dick Vitale square off against each other.

The latest backing came from a group which included Richard Branson's The Spaceship Company — the manufacturing arm of Virgin Galactic — as well as other «tech bosses, engineers, and astronauts,» according to The Daily Mail.

On the other we have the heaviest rocket created by the NewSpace industry, one that promises to deliver astronauts to Mars.

The Saturn V's size and payload surpassed that of all other previous rockets, reflecting its purpose of sending astronauts to the moon.

A host of other Suntory liquors and alcoholic beverages will also make the landmark journey to the intergalactic astronaut digs, which orbits some 220 miles above our big blue marble.

the astronaut theory comes about because every culture and every civilization speaks about «Chariots of fire» among many other things.for those that are non Christians this can be interesting and fascinating..

Those who didn't identify Jesus correctly, or think he was a Chelsea striker, answered the other options of» X factor contestant» or «astronaut».

Rock's other significance in relation to modernity, which David Bowie understood better than anyone, is that it sanctions a new type of heroism, that in contrast to, say, an astronaut's bit part in a space - flight that is essentially the military - industrial establishment's....

Joseph Smith ancestors are along with Eight U.S. presidents are known to be descended from Mayflower passengers, and a number of other famous people including astronauts, poets, politicians, actors and actresses, directors, inventors and others are descendants as well.

Whether it is simply rolling a ball back and forth with a sibling or putting on a costume and imagining she's an astronaut — she's developing important social skills such as learning to take turns, cooperation, and getting along with others.

Astronauts Mark Kelly and Scott Kelly, former U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., actors John Cleese and James Franco and others are part of the lineup at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series.

He studies the astronaut diets along with protein, vitamin, mineral, and other chemicals in blood and urine to look for indicators of disease or other physiological changes.

Parents, children and other relatives gather for a chance to explore interactive science exhibits, meet an astronaut and take a virtual reality trip inside the International Space Station during this weekend event open to the public beginning Saturday Feb. 17 during the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting.

«It also provides guidance on the use of existing NASA facilities and other resources to train for future missions, and supports the role and definition of the astronaut corps in connection with the full utilization of the International Space Station.»

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and other nearby outposts can survive on supplies shipped from Earth, but for any human settlement to persist farther out, the thin thread of an Earth - based supply chain will prove dangerously fragile.

The uncrewed Dragon capsule made its way to the ISS, where it was due to arrive on Wednesday carrying a selection of food, water and other supplies for the station's astronauts, along with more exotic cargo.

Other opportunities for budding astronauts such as Guerra have already sprung up in the private sector.

A firewall, on the other hand, would provide a pretty noticeable hint that the astronaut had reached the event horizon: He would fry instantly.

This Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth on May 11 carrying, among other things, science samples from the One - Year Mission, in which NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko stayed aboard the station from March 2015 until March of this year.

The ability to identify microbes in space could aid in the ability to diagnose and treat astronaut ailments in real time, as well as assisting in the identification of DNA - based life on other planets.

«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.»

However, as a paper published in Botany Letters shows, many challenges need to be addressed if astronauts are to successfully grow enough food on board spacecraft and on other planets.

The timing of the lunar reveal was notable in at least one other respect, arriving as it did one day before the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17, the last mission to deliver astronauts to the moon.

«As with other areas of personalized medicine, we would seek to create individual treatment and prevention plans for astronauts we believe would be more susceptible to cognitive deficits from radiation exposure,» she says.

The rats» heads were exposed to varying levels of radiation that astronauts would normally receive during long - duration missions, while other rats were given sham exposures.

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The other piece will still wipe us out, so the astronauts sacrifice themselves to destroy it, shattering it «into millions of pieces of ice and rock, which burned harmlessly in our atmosphere.»

Under such low gravity, astronauts find it hard to keep their feet on the ground as they move, making controlling their movement difficult — in other words, walking becomes harder than running.

Cohen and others think the cure could be hypergravity: a force stronger than Earth's gravitational field delivered to astronauts on a centrifuge.

Onion cell mutations could have ramifications for other organisms, including astronauts.

Oman thinks that centrifuges could help train the neurovestibular system to adapt more readily to weightlessness, allowing astronauts to move between Earth, space, and other planets without days of debilitating motion sickness.

Information from SEISS will help NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center provide early warning of these high flux events, so astronauts, satellite operators and others can take action to protect lives and equipment.