Sentences with phrase «same space flight»

It gets less tedious once you upgrade your fuel reserves, but you're still forced to watch the same space flight animation over and over.

Not exact matches

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.

Several months after that meeting, Peter Diamandis, a space - travel fanatic in St. Louis, announced a new competition, the X-Prize (later named the Ansari X-Prize), for the first manned, non-government-funded flight to reach an altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, and then repeat the feat with the same vehicle within two weeks.

Multiple live animals from the same family are permitted on the same aircraft; however it is possible that, due to space or weight constraints, the passenger and pets may not be able to be accommodated on any particular flight.

«Having two very similar missions at the same time is not ideal,» says Colleen Wilson - Hodge, an astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and a member of the STROBE - X team.

Similarly, Gordon Chin, a project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, proposed a mission that would explain why the same chemical processes that destroy ozone in Earth's atmosphere stabilize carbon dioxide in Venus's.

«We estimate that the peak activity for the volcanic field at the summit of Arsia Mons probably occurred approximately 150 million years ago — the late Jurassic period on Earth — and then died out around the same time as Earth's dinosaurs,» said Jacob Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

At the same time, NASA is gearing up for the first test flight of the Space Launch System in 2017.

The skull went first to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's PaleoLab in Pittsburgh, then made a brief trip to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuspace shuttle.

Dust will affect climate and, at the same time, climate change will affect dust,» said lead author Hongbin Yu, an associate research scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

A russian rocket of the same model used to carry cosmonauts into space apparently exploded during flight last month.

But when Demos Kazanas at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues looked at 18 years» worth of X-ray observations of neutron stars in binary systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud, they found that half were slowing down — at the same rate as the others were accelerating.

These so - called Red Dragon missions would adapt the same crewed capsule that SpaceX is developing to help NASA send astronauts to the International Space Station, and place it on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket — whose maiden test flight is scheduled for 2017.

Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada Corporation are hoping to see the first flights of these spacecraft in 2017 — the same year that NASA plans to launch their new heavy - lift booster, the Space Launch System (SLS).

And for good reason: the genius that enabled space flight fifty years ago can be the same genius that enables teachers to reimagine classes to conform to each student's needs.

Availability of space on flights for frequent flyers is often treated in the same manner with many of the same conditions as deeply discounted air fares.

Then when you're done with that, consider the Delta SkyMiles Gold Amex, which has the same deal — at least 30k points, which is enough for a one way ticket to Europe on flights where «Saver» space is available.

While there is no limit on the number of flights that can be taken, pass winners can't book two flights out of the same city in one day, and the pass does not apply to Mint and Even More Space seats, or JetBlue's vacation packages.

Qantas doesn't have the same flash of Emirates first class or the amazing amount of space that you'll find flying The Apartments on Etihad, but what you will get is an amazingly comfortable flight.

By earning miles with these loyalty programs I have access to more award space on their flights, as well as the same saver - level award space that exists on United and other Star Alliance partners.

We're co-located at Heathrow Terminal 3, so all Virgin Atlantic and Delta flights from London Heathrow arrive and depart from the same shared space.

This is the same window when most airlines capitulate, realize they won't be able to sell the seat, and open up award space on hard - to - get flights.

The idea is that you are better off using Singapore miles than United miles to book the United flights because both can access the same award space, but Singapore charges fewer miles, and its miles are easier to get.

With MileagePlus you can then take Air New Zealand flights from Sydney to New Zealand on the same award ticket, though there's often no Business Class space on the short 3 hour Sydney to New Zealand flight, so you may have to suck it up in coach for that leg.

If I were to book a 1st class CP flight from HKG to JFK with aadvantage miles as soon as that award space is released on ba.com, and if I then wanted to go from JFK to AUS on the same award ticket, then that award space for AA wouldn't yet be available, correct?

United charges more miles for the exact same flights, which is exactly why we'll use Singapore miles to book the space.

Once your credit card earns you a suborbital space flight, those airline miles no longer have the same cachet.

Arthur Hou works three floors below me in the same wing (the «C» wing) of the large Earth Sciences building (affectionately known as «building 33») at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.