Sentences with phrase «orbiting laboratory»

With access to our nation's only orbiting laboratory, CASIS works with new and non-traditional users to take advantage of this resource.

The map was compiled from data collected by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, a NASA orbiting laboratory that was launched June 30, 2001.

Using a stepping stone approach that builds on the capabilities of our unique orbiting laboratory — the International Space Station — the growing abilities of commercial providers to reach space, and a new rocket and crew vehicle to travel to deep space, NASA is extending human reach into the solar system even as its amazing science missions are rewriting textbooks about our universe and inspiring the next generation of explorers.

NASA's space station astronauts face a daunting training regime that has been streamlined in recent years, but still includes years of preparation for the typical six - month stays on the orbiting laboratory, the report states.

It could also benefit other experiments aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Related space biology research continues aboard the space station, including recently selected studies that are planned for future launch to the orbiting laboratory.

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson conducted the experiment aboard the orbiting laboratory, with NASA microbiologist and the project's Principal Investigator Sarah Wallace and her team watching and guiding her from Houston.

White House Science and Technology Director John Holdren discussed the announcement by the White House that it approved an extension of the International Space Station until at least 2024 to enable the continuation of research in the orbiting laboratory.

Not long after, the U.S. and Russia combined their orbiting laboratory efforts toward the ISS.

Astronauts on the orbiting laboratory will test the yeast growth on monocytes in an enclosed and controlled facility called the Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA).

So, while we don't want to eliminate all of the bacteria and yeast microbes from our system, scientists are using the orbiting laboratory to discover ways to keep them in check on Earth and in space.

They now are critical for maintaining the space station and docking other spacecraft with the orbiting laboratory.

The investigation on the orbiting laboratory will allow scientists to better understand the growth and development of these microbes, which, in turn, can help develop treatment for infections both in space and on Earth.

A second contracted flight for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station will be twice as nice for researchers working with investigations on the orbiting laboratory.

It will be the fifth trip by a Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory.

Also being delivered is a set of high - tech legs for Robonaut 2, which can provide the humanoid robot torso already aboard the orbiting laboratory with the mobility it needs to help with regular and repetitive tasks inside the space station.

Pike believes that NASA may choose an orbiting laboratory more like Russia's Mir station, and that it will not have a permanent crew.

The space shuttle itself, or free - flying experiments can also be used as orbiting laboratories to evaluate mechanisms such as deployable masts.

For the six months before Eureca is recovered by the shuttle, the carrier will be an orbiting laboratory for experiments in the growth of large crystals of proteins, semiconductors and zeolites.

After six months aboard the orbiting laboratory, Padalka will return, along with recording artist and spaceflight participant Sarah Brightman and European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen.

«The goal of their year - long expedition aboard the orbiting laboratory is to understand better how the human body reacts and adapts to the harsh environment of space,» says NASA.

«The goal of their year - long expedition aboard the orbiting laboratory is to understand better how the human body reacts and adapts to the harsh environment of space,»

Under the $ 4.2 billion Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract NASA has awarded to Boeing, the company is required to ferry crews to and from the orbiting laboratory, something that the United States has been incapable of doing since the -LSB-...]

Under the $ 4.2 billion Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract NASA has awarded to Boeing, the company is required to ferry crews to and from the orbiting laboratory, something that the United States has been incapable of doing since the close of the shuttle era in 2011.

They found that a particular species of algae, which was placed on the exterior of the orbiting laboratory, survived the extreme temperature fluctuations, vacuum, as well as cosmic and UV radiation in space for a period of 16 months.

On Monday, Sept. 7, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (ESA) controlled a rover located at ESA's technical center in the Netherlands while onboard the orbiting laboratory placing a rounded peg into a hole using the robot's arm.

The 14th contracted commercial resupply mission from SpaceX (CRS - 14) delivered about 5,800 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware to the orbiting laboratory.

Nearly all of the samples that returned from the orbiting laboratory developed into new populations.

It will be refurbished and later relaunched to the orbiting laboratory as a spare.

Crew members will fly to the orbiting laboratory and stay there for a few days while the spacecraft's systems are evaluated for their performance.

Even though the orbiting laboratory is regularly resupplied, crew members must consume fresh deliveries quickly.

It's a new day in space aboard the International Space Station, and three Expedition 55 crew members are prepping for an upcoming spacewalk and cargo - transfer activities while also sharing the wonders of our orbiting laboratory.

The spacecraft Bolden will see are the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, scheduled to launch in October 2014, and the International Space Station (ISS)- RapidScat instrument, which is set for launch to the orbiting laboratory in April 2014.

Three of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft have thundered into orbit atop the Falcon 9 with two of those traveling to the International Space Station and delivering cargo to the orbiting laboratory.

The mutant fuel literally drops out of the sky, raining down from the fiery remains of an orbiting laboratory.

The crew made a careful visual and photographic inspection of the orbiting laboratory that showed the golden - colored parasol sunshade deployed by the crew to protect the workshop from solar heating.