Sentences with phrase «other crewed missions»

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Russian Trolls» Post-Election Task: Disrupt Florida and Other U.S. Energy Pipelines Greg Gordan McClatchy DC Bureau May 1, 2018 WASHINGTON — A television crew from Russia's largest state - backed network swooped into downtown Miami two days before New Year's Eve, 2016, on a curious mission.

Christopher Columbus and his son Ferdinand encountered the cacao bean on Columbus's fourth mission to the Americas on 15 August 1502, when he and his crew seized a large native canoe that proved to contain cacao beans among other goods for trade.

That event will feature NASA officials and crew members aboard the International Space Station as they observe the rover anniversary and discuss how its activities and other robotic projects are helping prepare for a human mission to Mars and an asteroid.

«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.»

I am all in favour of other nations getting into the race for Mars, but I have concerns for the Dutch programme mentioned in your brief look at possible crewed missions (4 August, p 6).

Physicist Christiane Heinicke spent 365 days sequestered with five others in a geodesic dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano to test what isolation might do to the psyches of the crew on a Mars mission

Although the price tag is a whopping $ 1.4 billion for a two - person flight, the first mission is expected to cost the company up to $ 8 billion, in part because it will need to purchase rockets and a crew capsule from other private spaceflight ventures.

A longer mission and a third crew member would allow the space agency to fly additional microgravity research, maintenance and other activities while docked to the outpost.

Lockheed Martin plans to reduce the production cost of the Orion crew capsule for future missions through reuse of the vehicle structure and other components of the spacecraft, SpaceNews reported Friday.

The crew — Spock, Bones (Karl Urban, «Dredd»), Sulu, Uhura (Zoe Saldana, «Colombiana»), Chekov (Anton Yelchin, «Fright Night»), Scotty (Simon Pegg, «Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol»), among others — encounters debris fields, technical malfunctions, betrayal and bona fide drama as they pursue their crafty adversary, but who will be double - crossed and fooled as tensions build?

Unlike Saints Row IV's brilliantly heartfelt, personality - packed loyalty missions — each of which focused on a crew member's greatest fear or fantasy or whatever that thing with the giant soda can was — Gat Out Of Hell's quests are just side missions standing on each other's shoulders to impersonate something Big and Important.

The full scene has arrived online and it introduces us to the crew of the colony ship Covenant, which is venturing deep into space on a mission to establish human outposts on other planets.

The other crew members, led by mission commander Lewis (played by Jessica Chastain), can't locate Mark and presume he's dead.

Players can receive invites or seamlessly dive into chase missions if they happen to be close to another pursuit in progress, which is a welcome addition in an MMO where interaction with other players is surprisingly rare unless you're in a crew with like - minded players.

Before the first set of missions is out, you'll have learned how to move, interact with nonplayer characters, equip items, shoot at enemies, use special skills, assemble an away team, pilot a starship, hail other vessels, allocate shields, prioritize different ship systems, issue orders to your crew and collect the spoils of war, among other things.

You start your adventure recruiting some heroes in the city (you can always recruit more between missions) from classes like knights, clerics, thieves, archers and others not so common like aberrations, occultists and leprous (each one with a set of skills, strengths and weakness), select a group of four fearless members from these heroes in your crew, buy some provisions (like food and medicines) and start your adventure by selecting one of the available missions (that can be played in any order that better suits you).

Build a ship, complete a mission and wave it goodbye when your crew defect to the other side.

According to Rockstar, the Heists update for Grand Theft Auto Online will allow players to «team up» with «trusted crew members or with random other mercenaries» in cooperative online heists missions.

For example, if you're a sod who plans to ruin a co-op mission from the outside, tough; Ubisoft says that the moment the players activate a co-op mission, they're effectively locked off from any other player running rampant through The Crew's persistent world.

The station played host to two crewed missions and served as a test platform for perfecting docking procedures and other operations.

Responsible for scheduling work, training and vacation, as well as ensuring a fair, equitable system for the crew and coordinating with other departments to ensure completion of assigned missions.

Construction Worker, Mission Renovation2015 — Present • Read blueprints and assign responsibilities to work crew accordingly • Prepare construction sites before crew comes out to make sure all hazards are removed • Measures distances to ensure remodeling and installations will fit perfectly • Erect scaffolding and other safety structures to reduce the number of workplace injuries by 80 percentConstruction Worker, Rose Falls Remodeling2013 — 2015 • Operated jackhammers to break up concrete to install pipes under the earth • Assisted masons, plasterers, and carpenters with specialty work • Cleaned surfaces before and after material was to be applied, which included hosing water, sand, or steam based on the material being worked on • Installed over 60 new roofs on residential houses throughout the city