Sentences with phrase «of spacesuits»

Michelle Rucker, an engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and her colleagues are testing a tool for astronauts to swab the outside of their spacesuits and the space station, and collect whatever microbes are already there.

Plus: the next generation of spacesuits, quantum computers» threat to online security, and how some people accomplish feats of extraordinary endurance.

They hop inside of a spacesuit, smile for the camera, then get back to their rigorous training.

Designers and engineers at Virgin are still working out aspects of the passenger experience, including whether some type of spacesuit or specialized headgear will be required, as well as protective ear covering during the rocket stage (after which there should be an eerie silence).

Per protocol, we each wore a kind of spacesuit, isolating us from the elements.

The astronauts also evaluated a version of the spacesuit that could be worn on an asteroid.

We've then got the Power Horse Armour — comprised of Giddyup Buttercup parts, mostly — as well as a replica of the spacesuit from Arkane Studios» recent outing, Prey.

Using the changeable colors of her spacesuit, you must activate the defense systems of an entire city.

The print advertisement showed a bottle of rum splashing its contents onto the image of Aldrin standing on the moon, the lower half of his spacesuit having turned into a pair of swimmer's legs in trunks and fins.

Not exact matches

From the silvery suits of the 1950s and 1960s Mercury program to future commercial and government designs, here's how astronauts» spacesuits have evolved over six decades.

NASA has yet to incorporate the suit into its plans, but it's a good representation of how spacesuits may continue to evolve to meet the intense needs of space exploration in the future.

On Tuesday, McClain (who is preparing to fly to the International Space Station in November) posted photos of herself in a spacesuit next to her young son.

With deadly climates (even in a spacesuit), colonists would likely live underground in windowless caves, where homesickness, anarchy, cannibalism or a whole host of other communal breakdowns could soon set in.

The cover layer option dubbed «Technology» won the spacesuit design challenge with 147,354 votes, or just over 63 percent of the total ballots cast, NASA officials said.

The Z - series spacesuit line is still in the prototype phase, seeking to advance and develop technologies that will allow astronauts to amble about on the surface of Mars someday.

As its payload, the test rocket carried Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and a dummy named «Starman» wearing one of SpaceX's spacesuits.

Cause of death: Rescues Peter Quill from Ego's planet, giving him the only spacesuit so that Quill can survive instead of himself.

Elon Musk has shared yet another photo of SpaceX's spacesuit, this time showing the full - body design.

With our old mate Robin out of action though, and with Radamel Falcao seemingly as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit at Old Trafford, Rooney will be playing up front against us on Monday.

A: Every couple of months, I get an email from someone who wants to design a spacesuit.

Star City also has a museum showcasing spacesuits, charred descent capsules and assorted Gagarin memorabilia, including the YG 1 number plate of the Rolls - Royce that drove him past ecstatic crowds in London three months after his first space flight.

Here's how this spacesuit of the future could fix the problems of the past.

And I believe the reason is that, because, I think this is grossly oversimplifying the problem, but, of course, if you have got a pressurized spacesuit, and you have it under vacuum circumstances, you don't want it to suddenly be that you are an astronaut and suddenly [it] is now like one of the big balloons in the Thanksgiving's Day Parade, you know — you've got [to] still be able to move.

Mastracchio will carry the designation of EV 1, wearing the spacesuit bearing red stripes.

Or, smaller arrays of coils could be placed in strategic locations within a spacesuit to produce localized tension and pressure, depending on where they are needed to maintain full body compression.

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Now MIT researchers are one step closer to engineering such an active, «second - skin» spacesuit: Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT, and her colleagues have engineered active compression garments that incorporate small, springlike coils that contract in response to heat.

This week NASA put the latest piece of hardware into place, awarding a preliminary six - year, $ 183.8 - million contract to Oceaneering International, Inc., of Houston to design and build a basic spacesuit (for launches, landings and emergencies) as well as a suit for astronauts to wear during their stays on the moon.

FORGET the complex choreography involved in putting on a spacesuit: astronauts will one day be able to get suited and booted in seconds by stepping through the neck of an overlarge, part - robotic spacesuit.

There are texts and meditations on the power and purpose of science fiction, both as art form and intellectual tool, but visitors are left to piece together their own ideas — difficult while being accosted by a real Darth Vader mask, Star Trek spacesuits and an enormous, loud, interactive NASA console.

The spacesuits used for ISS spacewalks are «unworkable» for Orion, ASAP said, and although NASA officials have indicated that they have no plans to develop new spacesuits for ARM, ASAP suggests otherwise: «design and development of new - design suits, while underway, are still preliminary and untested.»

Seriously, if NASA's looking for some new space - age material to build spacesuits out of, velour is the ticket man.

Much of the film is in dead silence (accurately depicting the absence of sound in space), or with the sound of human breathing within a spacesuit.

But there are also pics of John Cho (Sulu) drinking coffee in some kind of battlesuit / spacesuit with...

For a big budget movie about a lone astronaut who gets stranded on Mars, the spacesuits in The Martian are surprisingly sober in terms of design.

(Indicative of this movie's cluelessness about women in particular, at one point Lawrence declares that she can't go for a romantic jaunt outside the ship wearing her date - night dress, so she goes commando under her spacesuit — but leaves her high heels on.)

Those hurtling toward mid-life crises will know that I am, of course, babbling about the spacesuit - clad star of Nodes Of Yesod, one of the finest games ever to grace the 8 - bit scene, and seemingly the core inspiration for Alientrap's exploratory platformeof course, babbling about the spacesuit - clad star of Nodes Of Yesod, one of the finest games ever to grace the 8 - bit scene, and seemingly the core inspiration for Alientrap's exploratory platformeof Nodes Of Yesod, one of the finest games ever to grace the 8 - bit scene, and seemingly the core inspiration for Alientrap's exploratory platformeOf Yesod, one of the finest games ever to grace the 8 - bit scene, and seemingly the core inspiration for Alientrap's exploratory platformeof the finest games ever to grace the 8 - bit scene, and seemingly the core inspiration for Alientrap's exploratory platformer.

Putting gothic horror into a spacesuit and blasting it off into the depths of outer space, Planet of the Vampires paved the way for everything from Alien to Event Horizon and beyond.

Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection pays homage to the aesthetics of these personal life support systems through Mark Avino's gorgeous photographs of mission suits, prototypes and training gear.

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Combining their choices (subtly designated with a cutline and a tiny red square) with other images, the editors also include particulars about each mission, including any firsts (live TV broadcast, flights of spacecrafts, use of special spacesuits).

Ludens is a spacesuit - wearing figure who hides the face of Hideo Kojima, which was confirmed during an interview with Polygon at last year's San Diego Comic - Con.

While it's hard to tell where the homage ends and genuine cultural absorption begins with the Japanese and their (perfectly reasonable) obsession with Mobile Suit Gundam, I do find the use of Gundam as a reference point interesting, because much as the mobile suit's use in Gundam is to provide a vehicle that can operate equally well in space, under Earth's gravity, and in the artificial «gravity» of O'Neill cylinders, Vanquish is taking the commonly used Western term «space marine» quite literally, as Vanquish's power armor seems to be designed both as a spacesuit and as body armor, used to infiltrate a structure floating in space.

In the new trailer, you'll be able to see how the resources gather from various different planets can be used not only to directly upgrade your spaceship, spacesuit, and laser weapon, but also to negotiate trades with the wide variety of alien races that you will inevitably encounter in the game.

The game's premise is fairly simple: You're a person with a spacesuit, a crashed spaceship, and a set of tools and blueprints.

Your goal is to get better versions of all of them, mainly so you can have more pockets to carry more stuff, which then lets you get better ships, guns, and spacesuits.

Steve Tananbaum has kept a portion of the couple's collection at his Midtown New York office — including two spacesuits by Tom Sachs.

Maine - based artist Randy Regier has also riffed on macho themes in his works, particularly in a series of «toys» that show superheroes stripped to their Skivvies or goony astronauts looking helpless and overloaded in comical spacesuits.

Anaïs Duplan, RU curator - in - residence, curator and Director of a performance collective The Spacesuits and artist residency The Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Iowa City

, RU curator - in - residence, curator and Director of a performance collective The Spacesuits and artist residency The Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Iowa City