Sentences with phrase «of station crew»

Solicitations for research, planned for June, will offer $ 3 million of CASIS's own seed money to researchers, although the centre hopes that the attraction of free flights and free space on the station, along with the free labor of station crew members, will be so enticing that proposers will bring their own grant money to the table.

Not exact matches

You were part of the station's first permanent crew of six.

«We're pretty close to sending crew up to the Space Station - that's currently scheduled for the end of next year,» he said, referencing the upcoming Dragon 2 vehicle that SpaceX is testing.

SpaceX, along with Boeing (ba), also has a contract with NASA to fly astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the «Commercial Crew» program, with the first crucial test flight slated for the second quarter.

The Dragon is scheduled to depart the station in May and return to Earth with more than 3,500 pounds of research, hardware, and crew supplies, according to SpaceX.

Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia, which also makes unmanned space station shipments, did not vie for crew - carrying privileges.

In addition to the tasting station in the back of the store, you can ask crew members to taste anything in the store, within reason — even packaged foods.

Musk has also said the cost would be comparable or a little higher than the cost of a crewed mission to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz rocket.

The Dragon spacecraft for CRS - 14 is stocked with nearly 3 tons of supplies and experiments for the space station's crew.

Dragon 2, in spite of several delays, is a key part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program — in which the agency will contract private companies (SpaceX and Boeing so far) to send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.

NASA reports it is maturing the Veggie technology aboard the space station to provide future crews with a sustainable food supplement, which is a critical part of NASA's journey to Mars.

In the summer of 1984, Jimmy Fadden and crew sawed the station in half and moved it to its present location.

He left the chipping practice area with a thumbs - up as he passed Jordan Spieth and his crew stationed on the far left end of the driving range.

It was then presented over video link by a crew of three Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station.

After graduatingfrom Rockford's Jefferson High in 1989, Knaus put his TV and a suitcase full ofclothes in the back of his uncle's station wagon and moved to Charlotte inhopes of catching on with a NASCAR pit crew.

Drivers on 143rd Street near the Orland Park Metra station can expect delays during the next month as crews work to relocate railroad tracks in the area, according to a news release from the Village of Orland Park.

News Editor of the Station Okyeremaba revealed that it started at about 5 am when the morning crew was set for the morning show prompting them to place an emergency call to fire firefighters who arrived an hour later to help put out the inferno.

Today debris threatens hundreds of spacecraft and satellites; in fact, last June a space - station crew scrambled into a Soyuz escape capsule because of passing trash.

During Atlantis's 12 - day mission the crew will deliver the Italian Space Agency's reusable Raffaello Multipurpose Logistics Module loaded with around 3,500 kilograms of science experiments, supplies, logistics and spare parts to the International Space Station.

Then there are space station spacewalk repairs to train for, software systems to learn and docking procedures for the international fleet of robotic and crewed spaceships that visit the orbiting lab.

Fager's photo and the other artwork ferried to and from the station was later auctioned off to benefit the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, founded in 1986 just three months after the post-liftoff accident that claimed the lives of seven NASA crew members.

A mock - up of the Crew Exploration Vehicle, including, from top, the pilot's seat, the exterior, and an interior configured to carry either four astronauts to the moon or up to six to Mars or the International Space Station.

The six crew members of the International Space Station prepared to abandon ship when NASA spotted a piece of space junk hurtling toward them at 29,000 miles per hour.

The moon flight is scheduled to launch afterSpaceX flies NASA astronautsto the International Space Station as a part of the Commercial Crew Program.

It hosted three space crews whose members performed science experiments, including one group of astronauts who remained on the station for a then - record 84 days.

«When a tool breaks, at the very worst the space - station crew calls Houston and says, «Send us a CAD (computer - aided design) file of that tool,» and they'll be able to 3D - print it,» said Jason Dunn, chief technology officer and cofounder of Made in Space, Inc. «Ideally, one day they'll be able to design it themselves.»

«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.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.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.»

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

An eruption of fire and smoke sent a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft skyward laden with 5,000 pounds of scientific equipment and supplies destined for use by the crew of the International Space Station.

«This launch kicks off a very busy time for the space station,» said NASA's Sam Scimemi, director of the International Space Station, noting upcoming launches of a Soyuz carrying the next crew of the station and launches of cargo spacecraft within astation,» said NASA's Sam Scimemi, director of the International Space Station, noting upcoming launches of a Soyuz carrying the next crew of the station and launches of cargo spacecraft within aStation, noting upcoming launches of a Soyuz carrying the next crew of the station and launches of cargo spacecraft within astation and launches of cargo spacecraft within a month.

(In 1973, the crew of the first American space station, Skylab, went on strike to protest their working conditions.)

NASA has subsequently shifted its long - term focus away from the space shuttle and the International Space Station toward the creation of a crew - carrying vehicle to fulfill its new mandate, and engineers at the agency are supremely confident that they have the technical know - how to build such a spacecraft.

These roomier dimensions can house between two and six crew members for missions of 21 days — longer than any previous vehicle except space stations.

The station would need supplies, and NASA was laying the groundwork for a new way of moving cargo and crew.

«China is clearly moving closer and closer to being able to achieve the long - planned culmination of «Project 921,» a large, permanently crewed space station,» says Joan Johnson - Freese, a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.

Once he has reached the Rothera Research Station of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) on an island off the Antarctic Peninsula, he and his science crew will fly about 1,000 kilometers into western Antarctica.

The manifest for the uncrewed Dragon includes almost 5,000 pounds of material including a spacewalking suit for astronauts plus related hardware and supplies for more than 150 science investigations to be conducted by the space station crews.

Bolden answered that if Congress were to grant the $ 858 million that NASA requested in the 2015 budget for the development of a commercial crew vehicle, the agency would expect to have access to the space station without reliance on the Russians by 2017.

Obama now wants NASA to develop a stripped - down version of the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle — which was part of Constellation — as a lifeboat for the international space station.

The crew will spend much of the remainder of their workday pressurizing the vestibule between Dragon and the station and setting up power and data cables to prepare for the opening of Dragon's hatch on Monday.

Meanwhile aboard the International Space Station, the Expedition 39 crew is in the homestretch of preparations for a spacewalk to replace a failed backup computer relay box in the S0 truss.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon spacecraft loaded with nearly 2.5 tons of supplies and experiment hardware for the International Space Station's Expedition 39 crew, lifted off at 3:25 p.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Hooking up Columbus will occupy most of the shuttle crew's schedule during their week - long stay at the space station.

Today, I am the project manager for the TPS nose development of the Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) for the International Space Station.

Yet later in the same document, Goldin, says that one of the project's goals is to bring forward the date when the space station can be permanently crewed.

The space station can be flown without a crew, although this increases the risk of problems developing on board, Suffredini said.

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

A slightly different version of the Soyuz rocket is used to carry Soyuz crew capsules to the space station.

The goal of this first mission is to validate system and hardware performance and for the station crew to demonstrate critical research operations.

Not that you could shave much of anything in the tiny cabins of the Desert Research Station, I observe as the crew readies dinner.