Sentences with phrase «run the space agency»

WASHINGTON — Led by Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA chief came under a steady attack by Democrats on Wednesday, even as he promised to run the space agency on a consensus agenda driven by science.

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To prevent Cassini from crashing into and contaminating any of those hidden oceans, the space agency has directed the craft, which is running out of fuel, onto a crash course with Saturn.

It also gives the federal Department of Transportation regulatory power over space mining flights — yes, the same agency that keeps the airline industry running on time.

The data comes from the space agency's long - running Kepler exoplanet - hunting mission.

Of the 90 similar programs in the state in the 1989 - 90 school year, 29 were run by school districts and 61 by outside agencies in space provided by local schools, according to Illinois Board of Education records.

The plans would see 800,000 children allocated credits to pay for evening or weekend classes run by universities, or even online courses run by US space agency Nasa.

ESA and the Chinese space agency are running daily updates on the station's location, so check back to see if it will be visible where you are.

And science has progressively become a bigger part of missions run by both the China National Space Administration (CNSA), which governs lunar and planetary exploration, and the China Manned Space Agency.

As the spacecraft plunged through these orbits, a radio telescope in Argentina, run by the European Space Agency, NASA's partner on the mission, listened for tiny Doppler shifts in Cassini's signal.

Yet the space agency is running out of time.

(There's also an Office of Education at NASA headquarters that runs agency - wide programs such as scholarships and research opportunities for students and efforts to attract more minority students into space science.)

But many space analysts warn that the agency's problems run much deeper than the loss of a few probes.

Now a team has used data from the Integral satellite, run by the European Space Agency (ESA), to study an entirely different effect: the polarisation of light of different energies from a GRB.

Nevertheless, Steven Running, chair of a NASA earth science advisory committee meeting, was pleased both with the funding request, as well as with a year that had seen the launch of three major missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, joint with the Japanese Space Agency; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 mission; and the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, which just launched on 31 January.

The NPL's signal will run on high - speed optical fibre, leased as part of plans by the European Space Agency to put atomic clocks on the International Space Station.

Steven Running, chair of a NASA earth science advisory committee meeting, was pleased both with the request, as well as with a year that had seen the launch of three major missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, joint with the Japanese Space Agency; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 mission; and the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, which just launched on 31 January.

Houston, we have a problem: NASA is running low on functional space suits, and while the US space agency has reportedly invested approximately $ 200 million to develop next - gen ones to be used on deep - space missions, they are still said to...

• IRIS has launched over 10 projects this year, including TimPix, a project run in association with the UK Space Agency that was recently promoted by NASA to schools in the US

The STEM in Schools event, run by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, forms part of National Science Week and will see classrooms across the country come alive with science as students participate in a virtual classroom discussion with STEM professionals working in the international space industry.

Leaders of the Recovery School District organized the meetings, originally invitation - only, as that state agency decides which groups will land space in the seven schools RSD runs in north Baton Rouge.

The two partner agencies that run the Pre-K programs would be forced to find — and likely pay for — new classroom space, which is not a guarantee.

A travel entrepreneur passionate about storytelling and social good, Kelley Louise runs two sister organizations: The Culture Collective, a creative agency for brands in the travel and impact space, and a nonprofit, Travel + SocialGood, which is aimed at solving like poverty or inequality through business and leisure travel.

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«Jamaica Sweethearts,» Reyna's recent pop - up installation at Julius Caesar, a prominent Chicago artist - run project space, examined art's social agency in an apparent endeavor to demonstrate Willats's cool polemics.

Chandra is the co-founder of Temporary Agency, an artist - run, alternative space.

On June 12 another cultural institution was shut down by local authorities: the artist - run space Red Square, located in the Elektrozavod, a dismantled factory complex that has been taken over by artist studios and creative agencies over the last decade.

Data centers — large facilities that house electronic equipment to run websites, monitor Internet traffic, and store and process data — can consume more than 40 times the energy of similarly sized office spaces, according to a new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).