Sentences with phrase «of another space station»

The company said it's «developed proprietary technology to drive a full order of magnitude of cost out of the design and manufacture of a space station.»

In October, NASA extended the two - year service period for the module — which is used for storage — to remain part of the space station until at least 2021.

When that happens, chunks of the space station are likely to rain down over our planet's surface.

Following on the massive indie success of «Gone Home,» the development team at Fullbright is focusing on another story - based first - person game in «Tacoma,» which follows one person's exploration of a space station named «Tacoma.»

The company is also collaborating with NASA to build the Archinaut, a prototype 3D printer combined with robotic arms that will perform in outer space, outside of any space station, which will enable additive manufacturing at a low cost and without the risk of having astronauts assemble the pieces.

So perhaps when he walked away, he was thinking of another space station in another time and simply knew — what would happen would happen.

Primary construction of the space station was completed earlier this year.

To demonstrate one - way XCOM, the team will install MXS on the experiment pallet where it will transmit data via X-rays to NICER's receivers positioned 166 feet away on the opposite side of the space station truss.

The grippers could one day help robots move dangerous space junk to safer orbits or climb around the outside of space stations.

The explorers will not only have to learn to live in reduced gravity in cramped spaces for prolonged periods, as in the carefully calibrated indoor environment of the space station, but they must also work outside for extended periods in potentially lethal environments they can not control.

As part of regular microbial monitoring, petri plates were touched to various surfaces of the space station.

In deference to the international character of the space station, NASA has raided menus (or food courts) from around the world.

In April, five post-doctoral fellowships were awarded for experiments using NASA's archive of more than a decade of microbes collected from the NASA modules of the space station.

«It threatened the lives of the crew members on board and the integrity of the space station.»

Decommissioned or damaged satellites, fragments of space stations and other remnants of space missions pose a potential threat of collisions with active satellites and spacecraft every day.

The re-entry of its space station is another looming drama, says Paul Marks

(We have a vicarious sense of this «zero - g» situation today from footage of space station astronauts, who are not outside of Earth's gravitational field, but actually in free fall as they orbit Earth.)

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).

He loved the feeling of weightlessness and learned to fly like a bird from one side of the space station to the other without touching down — a rare feat.

There was a Soyuz capsule Krikalev and his comrade, Ukrainian Aleksandr Volkov, could use for a hasty escape, but if they took the easy way out and left Mir, it could mean the end of the space station.

This wide range of subjects illustrates the diversity of the space station as a microgravity research laboratory.

In another, flights of the Space Station's astronaut emergency return vehicle offer a sense of adventure.

«From the heights of the space station, to the hospitals here on Earth, we are excited that this space technology is making its way to better the lives of our families,» said Gilles Leclerc, director general of Space Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency.

Then I entered the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility, a brightly lit, hangarlike building filled with full - scale models of space station modules and the cockpit of the Soyuz.

The fiery end of the space station provoked both fear (some thought Mir might arrive bearing mutant species of bacteria and fungi) and whimsy (Taco Bell floated a target in the ocean).

The Protein Crystal Optimization study is an investigation aiming to leverage the unique location of the space station to examine the internal structure of three medically important proteins.

The failed unit is one of the station's two external MDMs that provide commands to some of the space station's systems, including the external cooling system, solar alpha rotary joints and mobile transporter rail car.

The spacewalk will be the 179th in support of space station assembly and maintenance, the ninth in Mastracchio's career and the fifth for Swanson.

The emphasis on applied research is motivated in part by the limited lifetime of the space station, which is currently scheduled to operate until 2020, says Timothy Yeatman, who on 5 April was named interim chief scientist for CASIS and head of the review panel.

The maneuver offered some unique views of the space station, NASA officials said.

Over the past few years, Congress has grown increasingly unhappy about the spiralling costs of the space station programme and its lack of progress, and there have been several attempts to kill it off.

An onboard crew can react to problems and try to fix them before they threaten the health of the space station.

«Something that you could easily put inside the walls of the space station would free up the space for other equipment or experiments,» Velardo says.

The trouble is that this system is bulky and a lot of energy is required to power the moving stool, using up two of the space station's most limited resources.

The supernatural green hues of the Aurora Australis snake and shimmer across the atmosphere, their lights reflecting off the metallic hull of the space station.

There are plans to increase the number of space stations on orbit — via Bigelow Aerospace's commercial space station.

Researchers sent the hardy Earth bacteria up to the International Space Station for a real test of radiation resistance in the space experiment ADAPT, which was mounted on the EXPOSE - E platform of the space station's Columbus module.

The tentatively scheduled missions to be launched by the nation includes lunar probes, crewed space missions and the construction of a space station.

Both companies said they will be ready by the end of 2017, but CBS News adds that NASA still plans to use one seat on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft for the duration of the space station program and for Russians to fly on the U.S. systems.

«ECOSTRESS takes advantage of the space station's orbit to obtain measurements at different times of day, allowing us to see how plants respond to water stress throughout the day.»

Back in 1968 it must have blown its audience away (I was actually a member of that audience, but I was only five so I don't recall being blown in any direction at all — I just remember liking the monkeys) with its realistic shots of space stations gliding across the screen with a stark, cold beauty as Strauss's Blue Danube blared through the speakers.

The movie's opening scene, which is also the best action set piece in this Brad Peyton - directed picture, depicts the lone survivor of a space station catastrophe trying to return to Earth with her scientific samples intact.

A man breaks apart a model of a space station by beating it with a club.

If a walking simulator is what you're looking for, Tacoma is able to provide a few strong emotional moments searching for signs of the crew of the space station Tacoma, during their last days aboard.

In Rampage, the gene editing is being developed by an evil capitalist and her dim brother in an experiment that is being conducted in the safety of a space station, until it goes haywire, produces a giant rat and crashes to Earth where it infects a gorilla in a San Diego wildlife park.

Bruce Dern stars as the caretaker of a greenhouse located on a group of space stations that are sent into orbit.

Then a figure comes on a TV screen and talks about «the Cloverfield paradox,» which appears to have nothing to do with either Cloverfield or paradoxes but does involve the danger of the space station's technology opening up dimensional rifts and releasing «monsters, demons, beasts from the sea.»

The most interesting thing about the movie, I think, is its production design, which seems to have begun where the interiors of the space station in «2001: A Space Odyssey» left off.

The Cloverfield Paradox is an unholy mess... The characters here never feel like they could exist in a world outside of this space station, all of them barking in tech - speak at each other, rarely acting in what could be classified as recognizably human behavior... As the film bumbles from one confusingly mounted scene to the next, disappointment turns to boredom... The Cloverfield franchise is rumored to grow even more later this year with a second world war - set thriller potentially unspooling in October.

The first 20 pages or so of the screenplay by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick («Deadpool») provide a torrent of techno - jargon that establishes the close quarters of the space station and the scientific work therein.