Sentences with phrase «new flight engineer»

A Russian Soyuz capsule slipped into a berthing port on the International Space Station on Friday to deliver a new flight engineer for the live - aboard crew and two guests who will spend a week aboard the orbital outpost.

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Safety - sensitive transportation workers — including flight crew, air traffic controllers, truck drivers and train engineers — will be screened for several common opioid painkillers starting next year, according to a new federal rule published Monday.

«These are the flights that invented this way of doing glaciology,» says Dustin Schroeder, a radar engineer at Stanford University in California who is leading the new project.

Right now, astronauts on board the ISS filter wastewater and then distill it to recover pure water, says Layne Carter, a systems engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who is in charge of the space station's water systems (and who is not involved in the new study).

Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev plan to exit the Pirs docking compartment at 10 am Monday to deploy a Peruvian CubeSat, retrieve old experiments and install new ones, among other external tasks.

Mastracchio and Flight Engineer Steve Swanson installed a new circuit board inside a spare multiplexer - demultiplexer (MDM) that they will carry with them outside the station to replace the backup MDM that failed during routine testing April 11.

By the summer of 2009, when Boeing expects its first new 787 Dreamliner to be delivered to Japan, engineers will be banking on a number of engine safety tests to assure a future filled with uneventful flights.

For these two shuttle flights, NASA engineers had started to follow a new procedure for assembling the cylindrical solid - fuel rockets, says Brewster Shaw, head of the shuttle programme.

NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a NASA F / A -18 aircraft recently to simulate a rocket in its early flight phase to test adaptive software for NASA's new rocket the Space Launch System (SLS), the largest, most powerful launch vehicle for deep space missions.

«Everything was new,» recalls engineer William Green, who joined NASA 5 years after its inception and continues to work there in the office of space flight.

That is why a team of engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, developed and proved out a new additive manufacturing technique for nozzle fabrication that can greatly reduce costs and development time.

While many people think it's pretty cool to see images of features like ice mountains on the most mysterious planet (even if it is a dwarf) in our solar system, imagine the excitement of the scientists that have made a career of studying Pluto having never seen it; or the engineers that built and programmed the craft, the instruments, and the flight path that had New Horizons travel the length of our solar system for nearly a decade.

The 30 new aircraft will support the ongoing growth at Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, which has seen the company launch its biggest ever flights and holidays programme for 2017, and recently announce almost 1,000 roles in pilot, cabin crew and engineering positions in support of this growth.

Thomas Homer - Dixon Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto Feng Hsu Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Mark Jacobson Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University David Keith Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, University of Calgary Geoffrey Landis Glenn Research Center, NASA Jane C. S. Long hydrogeologist and geotechnical engineer Michael MacCracken Climate Institute, Washington, DC John C. Mankins Sunsat Energy Council / Managed Energy Technologies Michael E. Mann Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University Gregg Marland International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Mark Nelson Institute of Ecotechnics, Santa Fe, NM Darel Preble Space Solar Power Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology Gregory H. Rau Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz Steve Rayner Said Business School, Oxford, UK Kim Stanley Robinson Author, «Forty Signs of Rain» Gregory Dennis Sachs Alternative Power Program, US Merchant Marine Academy Thomas Schelling (Nobel laureate) Department of Economics, University of Maryland Michael Schlesinger Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Steven E. Schwartz Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Energy John Turner National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy Tyler Volk Department of Biology, New York University Tom M. L. Wigley National Center for Atmospheric Research Steven C. Wofsy School of Engineering and Applied Science / Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University Lowell Wood Hoover Institution / Stanford University

This time of year many of us take the opportunity to spend time with family and take some vacation time, so the engineering team will be running at a slower pace and many of our key people who drive our flighting process will be out (including me) This means we won't be releasing any new builds to Windows Insiders until January, for both PC and mobile.

Flight Test Engineer Intern, September 2016 to Present Shadowed aerospace engineering and mechanical teams and helped prepare flight and advance fabrication reports, weight and balance forms and flight test safety checklists for new airFlight Test Engineer Intern, September 2016 to Present Shadowed aerospace engineering and mechanical teams and helped prepare flight and advance fabrication reports, weight and balance forms and flight test safety checklists for new airflight and advance fabrication reports, weight and balance forms and flight test safety checklists for new airflight test safety checklists for new aircraft.

Cubic Corporation (San Diego, CA) 1985 — 1986 Project Engineer • Managed the development of instrumentation devices for the B1B Bomber cockpit procedure trainer as well as its interface to the various mini-computer systems providing relevant control • Supported all efforts related to new technical quotations for other flight trainers • Assisted management and other engineering staff with various duties as assigned and as needed