Sentences with phrase «on space missions»

Or when they go on a space mission through the garden to the climbing frame rocket with football helmets under their arms.

In more than 25 years of reporting on space missions I've had the privilege of joining in on some of the best «rides» into the solar system's depths.

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

5 In 1967 Vladimir M. Komarov became the first person to die on a space mission when parachutes on his Soyuz 1 capsule failed to open during descent.

But, unlike the Galaxy Far Away, the universe of STO is less «down to earth» and concentrates on space missions, featuring a very dynamic starship battles and more detailed customization options.

That could encourage the production of medicines used too rarely to justify conventional commercial production, as well as use in remote settings, such as on space missions, Hornung adds.

First, Abovitz encouraged a comparison of Magic Leap's ambitions to those of explorers on a space mission.

Take a spin on the Sunny Day Carousel, or hop in a trash can rocketship and join Oscar on a space mission that is sure to make your kiddos giggle.

Still, the sky may not be the limit for 3 - D printing — Kiran envisions that the technology could build replacement parts and unplanned - for devices on space missions.

He wondered why NASA should not focus on its space mission and let the other 12 study climate change.

Astronaut Scott Kelly, will leave on a space mission lasting one year at the International Space Station.

You were on a space mission collecting ether from a nearby nebula to replenish your colonies fuel supplies when all of the sudden... Acky appeared in his saucer and started collecting the same ether as you!

A person's lifetime risk of being hit by reentering space debris is about one in a trillion, according to the Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit research organization that provides guidance on space missions.

Eighteen people have died on space missions, but never in space — always on the way up or the way down.

He told NASA that he wanted it to concentrate on space missions, not on climate and weather.

By college, Jackman knew she wanted to work on a space mission.

The spread at one of the «launch party» dinners the wives would throw each time one of their husbands went off on a space mission.

Shape - shifting robots could also be useful in other situations where they must perform a wide range of tasks without packing lots of spare parts, like during natural disaster emergency response operations or on space missions.

Although scientists from the Whirlpool Corporation developed freeze - dried ice cream, or «astronaut ice cream» for NASA in response to astronaut requests, it proved unpopular and has never actually been taken along on a space mission.