Sentences with phrase «space as a crew member»

In 1992, she became the first African American woman to travel to space as a crew member on board the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

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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.

Veteran astronaut Andy Thomas, a crew member on this year's inaugural flight of the reengineered space shuttle, says that stars from dry, unpolluted earthly locations look as good as or better than they do through the shuttle's glass view port.

Seidler and colleagues examined structural MRIs in 12 astronauts who spent two weeks as shuttle crew members, and 14 who spent six months on the International Space Station.

For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.

NASA announced that a crew member will be swung out within reach of the damaged panel on a 50 - foot boom attached to the space station's robotic arm as early as Saturday to attempt a fix, to reduce the risk of further damage that would require the panel to be jettisoned, thereby reducing the growing station's power supply.

Closer to home comes this ethereal image of the Southern Lights, as captured by a crew member of Expedition 52 on the International Space Station.

Kornienko was selected as an Energia test cosmonaut candidate in 1998 and trained as an International Space Station Expedition 8 backup crew member.

The sun is captured in a «starburst» mode over Earth's horizon by one of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station, as the orbital outpost was above a point in southwestern Minnesota on May 21, 2013.

Life stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya, and Hiroyuki Sanada and it revolves around the six - member crew of the International Space Station as they come into contact with the very first evidence of biological life on Mars: a small, single - celled organism.

Attacked by a mysterious swarm of mechanical space bees, the crew becomes marooned separately, the better to give each member their own special screen time, Kirk engaging in his patented brands of derring - do with an adoring Chekov (Anton Yelchin) by his side, Spock and McCoy bonding in their uniquely prickly way as they argue over emotion versus logic, and Scotty (Pegg) confronted with a plucky alien woman (Sofia Boutella, triumphing over the stylized makeup and pert ponytail) who is just as mechanically inclined as he is.

The studios send the film to NASA Mission Control in Houston and then the team there digitally beams it 220 miles away to the six crew members stationed there working on Expedition 31 as well as 2 NASA astronauts, one person from the European Space Agency and three Russian Cosmonauts.

Cornish stars as Secret Service agent Sarah Wilson; Lara as Ute Fassbinder, the ISS astronaut who runs the space station; Wu as Cheng, the Hong Kong - based supervisor for the Dutch Boy Program; Derbez as space station crew member Hernandez; with Garcia as U.S. President Andrew Palma; and Harris as Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom.

Matt Damon is starring as an astronaut who gets left behind on Mars when the other members of his space - crew are forced to leave the planet during a space - storm.

Ziyi Zhang, left, and Daniel Bruhl as crew members of the Cloverfield Space Station.

Written by Deadpool and Zombieland scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film revolves around the six - member crew of the International Space Station as they come into contact with the very first evidence of biological life on Mars — a small, single - celled organism.

The Terror from Beyond Space, this instant classic set a tone of its own, offering richly detailed sets, ominous atmosphere, relentless suspense, and a flawless ensemble cast as the crew of the space freighter Nostromo fall prey to a vicious creature (designed by Swiss artist H.R. Giger) that had gestated inside one of the ill - fated crew memSpace, this instant classic set a tone of its own, offering richly detailed sets, ominous atmosphere, relentless suspense, and a flawless ensemble cast as the crew of the space freighter Nostromo fall prey to a vicious creature (designed by Swiss artist H.R. Giger) that had gestated inside one of the ill - fated crew memspace freighter Nostromo fall prey to a vicious creature (designed by Swiss artist H.R. Giger) that had gestated inside one of the ill - fated crew members.

Outside of the AR conversations, players can have Amy explore each crew member's work space and living quarters, as well as snoop through their email and direct messages to one another.

The Advanced Suit comes equipped with a standard duty 211 - V Plasma Cutter, normally used by engineers as a mining tool, but it can also be used by resourceful crew members looking to keep nasty space meanies away!

In the powerful new trailer we get introduced to a bunch of pretty unlucky crew members as well as the not so friendly inhabitants on - board the space station.

As a relatively new member of the Born Ready crew, I haven't been involved in the development of the Strike Suit games, but these were the space gaming experiences that will shape the way I approach our future work.

For those wondering what might connect a tea ceremony to a fictive Mars expedition, as seen in the video A Space Program, or why the artist would choose to meditate on chanoyu again, let's just say that it's a long trip to the lonely red planet, and a tea ceremony is an ideal way to resolve tensions between anxious crew members.

Members of the House Subcommittee on Space held a hearing today in which they grilled representatives from NASA and its commercial partners about the program, known as Commercial Crew.