Sentences with phrase «recent space flights»

Not exact matches

Space flight is nothing like golf, but if it were, SpaceX's recent headlines would look like a pro who'd fallen off.

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

Another model predicted that cycle 24 would be weaker than recent cycles, but the present model's accuracy in predicting past events and scientists» deeper understanding of the underlying solar physics may give it an edge, according to David Hathaway, a solar astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

«About a third of the gamma - ray objects seen by Fermi remained unknown in the most recent catalog, and this result represents an important advance in understanding their natures,» said David Thompson, a Fermi deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Chakrabarti's suborbital rocket flights were made possible through NASA funding, as was the bulk of recent progress in high - performance coronagraphs for space telescopes.

«Recent Hubble Space Telescope observations confirm that the Great Red Spot (GRS) is now approximately 10,250 miles across, the smallest diameter we've ever measured,» said Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are using already available satellite measurements of sulfur dioxide (SO2), a main components of volcanic emissions, along with the more recent ability to map the location and vertical profiles of volcanic aerosols.

«We've looked for the usual suspects in the usual places and found no solid signals, so we've started searching in some creative new ways,» Julie McEnery, Fermi project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement outlining the findings of three recent studies.

The first black holes in the universe had dramatic effects on their surroundings despite the fact that they were small and grew very slowly, according to recent supercomputer simulations carried out by astrophysicists Marcelo Alvarez and Tom Abel of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, jointly located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, and John Wise, formerly of KIPAC and now of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Adding to the recent spate of planetary finds, astronomers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and San Diego State University (SDSU) announced yesterday they've discovery the largest - known planet to orbit two stars, confirming theories about large planets around binary systems.

However, until 2006, scientists believed the Milky Way's most recent supernova occurred in the late 1600s [source: Goddard Space Flight Center].

The recent test flight of SpaceX's reusable super heavy - lift launch vehicle, Falcon Heavy, garnered international attention and countless Internet viewers... not only because of the promise it holds for the future of space travel, but also due to...

On my way to a recent flight, while I was frantically putting my shoes back on among a pushy crowd in that tiny space past the scanning machine, my mind began to wander from its immediate train of thought (which, at that moment, included a fantasy involving my shoe coming into contact with the person's head behind me) to one that was slightly more peaceful and productive: How can the process of flying be improved outside of the plane?

Recent example, I was searching LAN availability on BA and got no availability for months because no flights were bookable with avios, but award space was wide open on LAN searching directly on their website.

Then, there are of course references to space and space exploration, from the most recent examples including the aforementioned Struth photographs, to the ones representing more distant dreams of Moon flight, such Loewy and Puiseux's vintage photographs of the Moon's surface from the 1890s at the savvy Fraenkel Gallery.

In its recent contemporary redux, it has appeared as a private space or withdrawal to the imagination, an illusion or a flight of fantasy.

Stainless steel body panels, aluminum V6 engine, leather interior, and gull - wing doors that lift like an eagle taking flight, the ill - fated DeLorean DMC - 12 achieves a mythological presence in Make it new John, Duncan Campbell's recent film and corresponding installation at Artists Space.

«The winter maximum gives you a head start, but the minimum is so much more dependent on what happens in the summer that it seems to wash out anything that happens in the winter,» Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, explained in a recent statement.

Scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center have also reported that satellite measurements show that sea ice now covers about 2 percent more area around Antarctica than it did two decades ago, another suggestion of recent cooling.

A recent Hawaiian Airlines flight broke the laws of time and space, sort of.