Sentences with phrase «own golden spike»

Now, according to the company mission, «Golden Spike will exploit these advances, and others in the late stages of development, for commercial use, to offer human expeditions to the Moon at prices comparable to robotic flagship missions.»

«We can give countries an expedition to surface of the moon for two people,» Alan Stern, the co-founder of Golden Spike and NASA's former chief scientists told Wired.

Unlike more consumer - focused space exploration missions, like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — which will take passengers into sub-orbital spaceflight for $ 200,000 — Golden Spike's founder says its company's clientele will be comprised mainly of governments and corporations.

Leland Stanford drove the ceremonial Golden Spike in and the first Transcontinental Railroad was completed.

Golden Spike Rail Cart was there, selling vegan food, and from what I saw, it looked pretty good (From what I understand, that was their last weekend selling food from the cart.

Although the golden spike of the transcontinental railroad uniting the western United States with the East was driven at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, in 1869, the state still is not in touch with all the trends back East, teases Reid Steenblik, president of family owned Restaurant & Store Equipment Co..

being selected All SEC and College WS most outstanding player in 2014, then being a finalist for the golden spikes award in 2015 isn't much of an accomplishment.

As a senior at Wichita State in 1993, playing in his hometown, at the school where his father, John, was and still is a professor of history, Darren went 11 - 1 with a 2.48 ERA and, as the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur player.

Hurdler sets personal best to join likes of Allyson Felix and Bohdan Bondarenko in claiming victory at Golden Spike meeting

Next, the researchers need to find a «golden spike,» a unique boundary point in the rock strata that signifies the epoch's beginning.

There is a golden spike hiding in a rock face outside the village of Moffat in Scotland that marks the end of the Ordovician, denoted by the appearance of these graptolite survivors — Akidograptus ascensus and Parakidograptus acuminatus, to give them their scientific names.

Biology, magnetism and the chemistry of isotopes are the markers geologists typically use to tell the tale of changeovers in deep time, whether the Ordovician period or the Anthropocene epoch (the latter just a small slice of the Quaternary period that began more than 2.5 million years ago and has its own golden spike in Sicily).

Swindles even has a spot that might make for a good location to host a golden spike in the geologic timescale: Malham Tarn, the highest glacial lake in England situated in the Yorkshire Dales.

Golden Spike needs to raise $ 8 billion before its first rocket lifts off.

Gerry Griffin, chair of the Golden Spike board and former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, concurred.

That's why Zalasiewicz, among others, thinks the Anthropocene should date from this «golden spike» — a clear record in the rock that can be found everywhere in the world.

The scientists who found it hammered a golden spike into a hillside to mark the boundary.

If the plan comes to fruition, the first astronauts to step out of a Golden Spike lander could be the first human beings to set foot on the moon since the final Apollo mission in 1972.

The Golden Spike announcement came just a day after a National Research Council report concluded that NASA lacked direction and in fact had a mission statement so «generic» it could apply to any government research agency.

In addition to Stern and Griffin, Golden Spike counts among its advisers politician Newt Gingrich, former House Science Committee Chair Bob Walker, former Space Shuttle Program Chief Wayne Hale, a Star Trek set designer, and Nancy Conrad, founder of the Conrad Foundation and widow of Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad.

Golden Spike's plans rank among the most audacious privately funded space exploration missions ever proposed.

It's not a real golden spike but a line of darker shale and a marker of these graptolites» significance as what's called an index fossil: Wherever such a fossil is found a geologist can be sure those rocks are of a certain age.

In a statement responding to Golden Spike's announcement, a NASA spokesperson said: «This type of private sector effort is further evidence of the timeliness and wisdom of the Obama administration's overall space policy — to create an environment where commercial space companies can build upon NASA's past successes, allowing the agency to focus on the new challenges of sending humans to an asteroid and eventually Mars.»

As NASA targets other destinations, the potential benefits for lunar science — if Golden Spike can realize its lofty ambitions — are huge.

That approach makes Golden Spike most like NASA, since the company will be buying off - the - shelf hardware and creating missions for large government agencies.

The team's long - standing collaboration with HLRS has resulted in winning 2016 and 2017 Golden Spike awards, which are given to outstanding user projects during HLRS» annual Results and Review Workshop.

Nowhere is that more evident than at Golden Spike, established by Alan Stern, principal investigator on the New Horizons mission currently en route to Pluto and a former NASA administrator.

The Golden Spike Company, based in Colorado, announced on 6 December that it will start sending people to the moon for scientific purposes, to mine for resources or for bragging rights by 2020.

Golden Spike now has several experienced directors and advisors, including Gerry Griffin, former director of NASA's Johnson Spaceflight Center, and Wayne Hale, former chief of NASA's space shuttle programme.

Although several of the firm's directors have NASA experience, Golden Spike will be a purely private enterprise that will not seek government funding, Stern says.

No corporate sponsors have stepped up yet, but preliminary talks are under way to sell seats to space agencies in Asia and Europe, says Golden Spike CEO and former NASA science chief Alan Stern.

Named for the final spike driven into the first US transcontinental railroad line, Golden Spike plans to market to governments, corporations and individuals to routinely send people to the moon for scientific purposes, to mine for resources or simply for prestige.

Today's announcement, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC backs up recent rumours that Alan Stern, a former administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, had founded a company called Golden Spike in Colorado to run commercial moon trips.

Those are the signature products of Golden Spike and Uwingu, two of his companies.

Golden Spike plans to send a two - seat lander to the moon, staging material in Earth orbit using commercial rockets.

Scientists within the Anthropocene Working Group are working towards developing a proposal, based upon finding a «golden spike», more technically known as a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP).

Professor Colin Waters, who led the study, said: «Of the 65 «golden spikes» of the Geological Time Scale currently ratified, all but one are located in strata that accumulated on the sea floor, the one exception being the ice core used to define the base of the Holocene Epoch.

Continuous annually layered strata provide the best kind of geological archive in which to search for a «golden spike» — these form on the floors of oxygen - starved seas and lakes, in glacial ice, and in corals and trees with seasonal growth rings

The study considered a range of arguments in support of and against hosting a «golden spike» in a range of potentially suitable environments across the globe.

Alan Stern is back to tell us about Golden Spike, his new company that plans to put human clients on the surface of the moon by the end of this decade.

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It boasts remarks from Sadler, Bagley, McGrath, Golden Spike National Historic Site's Martin Soholt and historian W. Paul Reed.

On May 10, 1869, rail workers drove a golden spike into the ground of Promontory Point, Utah.

American schoolchildren are taught that the nation's first transcontinental railroad was completed when the golden spike was driven on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah.

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Gambitious Digital Entertainment and developer Urban Games have driven the golden spike into the new transport simulation game Transport Fever, out today on Windows PC, Mac and Linux.

Felix Melia: Golden Spike, Magic Hour, takes place on Thursday 7 April at 7 pm as part of Electronic Superhighway Season at the Whitechapel Gallery.

Laramée's upcoming exhibitions include: The Brain: Science, Art, Convergence at The Daejeon Art Museum and the National Museum of Science in Daejeon, Korea; Arc Across the Vortex at Art 101 in Brooklyn; Tracking the Cosmos at The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Art Gallery, SUNY Stonybrook University in Stonybrook, New York.; Timing Place: Siting The Golden Spike at the Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Art Collision at the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

But if you want to head out there, more power to you,» said Nickie Smith, an employee of the Golden Spike National Historic Site visitor center, as she handed over a...

But there's still a high hurdle to cross just in convincing the broader geology community to give a thumbs up to the basic idea of «human geology,» as they put it, no matter where the stratigraphers propose putting the Anthropocene «golden spike.»