Sentences with phrase «on the space station spend»

Those working on the space station spend a lot of time being glorified construction workers, bolting this, duct - taping that, yanking on the other, sometimes a good kick or two.

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If anyone is going to know it'll be Tim Peake, the ESA astronaut who spent six months on the International Space Station.

Seidler and colleagues examined structural MRIs in 12 astronauts who spent two weeks as shuttle crew members, and 14 who spent six months on the International Space Station.

But protecting humans in space may be the greatest benefit, says solar physicist William Wagner of NASA, especially with astronauts due to spend thousands of hours on space walks during the next decade to assemble the international space station.

NASA should consider extending space shuttle launches into 2011 rather than ending the program next fall, flying the international space station at least until 2020, and boosting spending on its flagging technology programs.

The candidates also spend weeks at a stretch overseas, training in countries, like Japan and Russia, that are partners on the International Space Station.

And the bill provides only $ 150 million over the next 3 years to enable commercial flights to carry astronauts to the international space station and back, just a fraction of the $ 3.3 billion the Administration wants to spend on promoting commercial space flight.

His 4 - year tenure was marked by a businesslike approach to legislating, support for modest increases in science spending at a time when House Republicans were focused on budget - cutting, and dogged and often highly critical oversight of Clinton administration efforts to involve Russia in building the International Space Station.

Comparing volume and activity of the cells that break down bone density in the upper and lower jaw bones of Medaka fish after 56 days spent aboard the International Space Station with those on the ground.

A Russian Soyuz capsule slipped into a berthing port on the International Space Station on Friday to deliver a new flight engineer for the live - aboard crew and two guests who will spend a week aboard the orbital outpost.

In March, Scott Kelly will head to the International Space Station on a mission that will make him the first American astronaut to spend a full year in orbit.

Noting that astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) must spend two hours per day exercising to counteract the effects of life in microgravity, Weir argued that instead of trying to ameliorate those effects «we should concentrate on inventing artificial gravity.»

Burps, pops and hops A mission to send humans to the Red Planet is well - within NASA's long - range plans, said Anderson, who is a veteran of two space missions, including spending 152 days on the space station.

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Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station including 5,440 orbits around the earth.

Spend some time trading with Gek on a space station, taking advantage of the insane price you can get for Emeril at the Galactic Trade Terminal.

Outside of the fifteen storyline planets, you spend time on space stations and some procedurally generated planets.

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