Sentences with phrase «of space taxis»

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They'll need the bats to fend off the increasing number of rivals piling into the self - driving taxi space.

Gobs of venture capital money have been tossed at the taxi - app space in the past few years, as various companies try to make the process of ordering a cab more convenient and efficient.

These contracts are not only lucrative but historic, as Boeing and SpaceX will play a pivotal role in the future of manned space travel, by establishing what will essentially be a taxi service to and from low - Earth orbit and eliminating America's reliance on Russian Soyuz rockets.

Uber and Grab both offer similar motorbike taxi options in parts of Southeast Asia, while Grab has also ventured into the mobile payment space.

From another time and space come the faint noises of cars, taxis, buses.

I don't think an urgent care taxi stand is meaningful access to a hospital,» she said, referring to a walk - in center that will lease space on the site of the former hospital.

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

Boeing is working on a crew capsule of its own, called the CST - 100, with a view to winning space taxi business not only from NASA but from Las Vegas company Bigelow Aerospace too.

Over the next few years NASA is hoping for similar commercial success in taxiing astronauts — and many of these companies will likely offer private citizens trips to space as well.

NASA's future will depend on the involvement of private companies to develop space taxis and a new generation of vehicles for deep space exploration.

The Obama plan is to create a diverse industry of taxi fleets that will transport cargo and crew to low Earth orbit, both for NASA and for commercial enterprises such as satellite companies or space tourism.

After cancellation of the Sänger program, my task was to build up high - temperature test facilities for TPS and hot structures needed for the European «Hermes» space taxi.

NASA, facing the retirement of the shuttle fleet in 2011, is actively encouraging the development of private space taxis.

By the time they get these LEO taxi's flying it will be time to shut down the dying - of - old - age - space - station - to - nowhere.

The assignments will be to work with SpaceX and Boeing to serve as crewmembers on upcoming test flights of the new space taxis.

Well the director of photography for Scorsese's classic «Taxi Driver» was also DP (double penetrator) on Space Jam!!!! CRAZY RIGHT?!?!?!?

Songs include: Big Yellow Taxi (by Joni Mitchell) Indian Sunset (by Elton John) Ironic (by Alanis Morissette) Pompeii (by Bastille) Space Oddity (by David Bowie) The Trooper (by Iron Maiden) The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (by Gordon Lightfoot) Thriller (by Michael Jackson) What is Truth?

The ease of entry and exit provided by the gullwing doors, the ample and internally accessible luggage space, the almost taxi - tight turning circle and a full - sized spare wheel confirm that the thrust of the design is all about making the Fighter a practical day - to - day proposition.

Even with a CNG tank taking up some room, Ford says the Transit Connect Taxi will offer an impressive 60.5 cubic feet of cargo space behind the rear seats.

Selected over other global manufacturers for its combination of compact exterior and maximum interior space in a multi-year «Taxi of Tomorrow» competition, the all - new Nissan NV200 Taxi design reflects the input of hundreds of taxi owners and drivers, and thousands of passengers who shared their ideas and priorities with Nissan designers and engineTaxi of Tomorrow» competition, the all - new Nissan NV200 Taxi design reflects the input of hundreds of taxi owners and drivers, and thousands of passengers who shared their ideas and priorities with Nissan designers and engineTaxi design reflects the input of hundreds of taxi owners and drivers, and thousands of passengers who shared their ideas and priorities with Nissan designers and enginetaxi owners and drivers, and thousands of passengers who shared their ideas and priorities with Nissan designers and engineers.

I know I told you the story, how I was waiting for someone to pull out of a parking space, had my blinker on, and this taxi just plowed into me.

His apartment in Vedado — another white - walled, art - filled space — is packed with a motley assortment of edgy Cubans: a cool young photographer, a physical therapist, a taxi driver who also doubles as a pot dealer.

Conceal your valuables, watch your things, avoid deserted streets, walk purposefully, take taxis at nights, and be vigilant if somebody invades your personal space, or if there is a scene of commotion, either of which may be done to distract you.

Last month the men of the Albert Street Taxi Union were tangling with City Hall concerning their parking spaces on Albert Street in the wake of the renovation of Battlefield Park.

I'll believe it when I see new installments in such franchises as Ecco, Streets of Rage, Crazy Taxi, Space Channel, Jet Set Radio, Ristar, Alex Kidd, House of the Dead, Billy Hatcher, Golden Axe, etc..

Speaking of the Commodore 64, the graphics are somewhat reminiscent of early - 80s Commodore 64 games where the graphics were rendered using the PET - ASCII graphics characters set (think Space Taxi, among many others).

After releasing lacklustre ports of Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi on PSN and XBLA, SEGA released a Dreamcast compilation containing these two titles along with SEGA Bass Fishing and Space Channel 5 Part 2.

I enjoyed your port of Sonic Adventure, Sega Bass Fishing, Crazy Taxi and Space Channel 5 on Xbox 360 XBLA.

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The website states: «This project is about creating a space for designers to show off their ideas and talent, through the medium of Taxi Fabric.

2010 Art of The Eighties, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin Re-Seeing the Contemporary: Selected from the Collection, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since 1960, San Antonio Museum of Art, TX (catalogue); travelled to Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Art of the Eighties, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin Color and Form, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Once Removed, The Apartment, Athens Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY VaXiNation, Xippas Gallery, Athens Global Art Show, The Columns, Seoul Track and Traces, Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy Abstract Vision 2010, Art + Art Gallery, Moscow The 80s Revisited: The Bischofberger Collection, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (catalogue) Painting Panel Exhibition, in conjunction with the College Art Association Annual Conference, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL Personal Structures: Time — Space — Existence, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn and Taxis BV: BKV, Bregenz, Austria Pictures about Pictures: Discursive Painting from Albers to Zobernig, Daimler Art Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna España / America: The Redefined Abstraction, Galeria Max Estrella, Madrid (curated by Demetrio Paparoni)

«50 years young is what we say,» said the director, Anne Vierstraete, standing beside the red brick facade of the expo's space at Tour & Taxis.

It is the product of my working as a taxi - driver (rarely undertaken by women in Greece) for the purposes of the project and setting up scenes of encounters and interviews in this semi-private space of anonymous urban transport.

Concentrating on the random routes drawn daily by taxis on the map of the city, my research focused on this alternative and «intimate» space, thus inhabiting the modern landscape through the use of a taxi.

Boston's Logan Airport rewards hybrid drivers with preferred parking spaces and cleaner fuel taxis get front of the line privileges, a program also used at San Francisco International Airport.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.