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Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, says the space agency already uses virtual reality technology in astronaut training and spacecraft simulations, so it was logical to extend that successful model to inspire and educate the next generation of space explorers and scientists.

«It is so important to find exciting new ways to inspire our next generation of space explorers,» NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, who serves on the project's advisory board, said in a statement.

In order to continue pushing boundaries, there must be a sustained effort to instill in young people the realization that yes, they can grow up to be space explorers — and that pursuing a career in aerospace, astronomy, or STEM - related disciplines can have very real and practical applications in today's commercial space industrIn order to continue pushing boundaries, there must be a sustained effort to instill in young people the realization that yes, they can grow up to be space explorers — and that pursuing a career in aerospace, astronomy, or STEM - related disciplines can have very real and practical applications in today's commercial space industrin young people the realization that yes, they can grow up to be space explorers — and that pursuing a career in aerospace, astronomy, or STEM - related disciplines can have very real and practical applications in today's commercial space industrin aerospace, astronomy, or STEM - related disciplines can have very real and practical applications in today's commercial space industrin today's commercial space industry.

Christian actor David Gyasi stars as space explorer Romilly in science fiction film Interstellar.

Babies and young children should be raised in safe spaces protected by adults, but they are wired to be «explorers» of information and their environment in order to become efficient and innovative in adulthood.

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

It was developed as a testbed to validate NASA's Neutron - star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, which primarily will study neutron stars and their rapidly spinning next - of - kin, pulsars, when it launches as an attached space station payload in 2017.

«This research is also of interest to researchers in the European space program on the Mars Explorer, since another investigator on the ARC grant, although not working on this aspect, was Howell Edwards, who was involved in instrumentation for the Mars Explorer.»

«It thrills me to no end that people all over the world took a break from their normal activities to go outside and celebrate the interplanetary salute between robot and maker that these images represent,» said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. «The whole event underscores for me our «coming of age» as planetary explorers.»

The explorers will not only have to learn to live in reduced gravity in cramped spaces for prolonged periods, as in the carefully calibrated indoor environment of the space station, but they must also work outside for extended periods in potentially lethal environments they can not control.

Besides a tongue - twisting name, it has the distinction of being the first space mission in NASA's Explorer program to be operated solely by a university.

It is a place human explorers will not visit in the foreseeable future, although the data on the flux of cosmic rays (energetic particles from deep space) into the solar system will allow engineers to better gauge the risk to both spacecraft and humans during extended space voyages.

The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.

NASA's Explorer Program at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., provides overall management of the IRIS mission.

Farquhar was the first to employ halo orbits for a space mission, designing them into the trajectories for the International Sun Earth Explorer - 3, launched in 1978.

«New investments in space technology provide the transformative capabilities to enable new missions, stimulate the economy, contribute to the nation's global competitiveness, and inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers,» concluded Gazarik.

Space explorers will need to recycle as much breathable oxygen in their spacecraft environments as possible during long - duration missions.

The fate of the Hubble Space Telescope and the destiny of the next generation of space explorers lie in their hSpace Telescope and the destiny of the next generation of space explorers lie in their hspace explorers lie in their hands.

Then in 2011, Goddard engineer Donald Dichmann, who at the time worked for Applied Defense Solutions in Columbia, Md., and his co-authors began work on a paper reviewing the trade studies NASA made when it decided to move its Interstellar Boundary Explorer from its original orbit to a more stable position at another lunar - resonant orbit — P / 3 — where it's mapping the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.

Missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Cosmic Background Explorer are all answering some of the fundamental questions in astrophysics, cosmology and planetary science: how did the Solar System form?

But in archival Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data from the 1996 outburst, Goddard Space Flight Center astronomer Tod Strohmayer noticed winks at 450 Hz.

Astronaut explorers can perform science in space that robots can not.

Sirangelo hopes that the Dream Chaser will live up to its name, inspiring a new generation of explorers let down by the years of drift in NASA's human space program.

On 21 May, NASA said it would allow the group to contact the International Sun - Earth Explorer - 3 (ISEE - 3), which studied space weather after its launch in 1978 and went on to study two comets.

Researchers are continuing that tradition by designing robots to work in a deep - space habitat, tending gardens and growing food for astronaut explorers.

Last September, an Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., with a 4,650 - pound space probe in its nose known as the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer — or just OSIRIS - REx.

With a weightless Oscar floating in front of him, shuttle commander Charles Bolden described Lucas as «an explorer inhis own right», and added: «The imagination and ingenuitythat have turned dreams into the reality of space flight are no different than those which turn ideas and inspiration into motion pictures.»

This work is based on observations made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), managed and controlled by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

WFIRST's data should complement the observations of several other dark - energy explorers set to come online in the early 2020s, such as the European Space Agency's Euclid probe, says Rachel Mandelbaum, an astrophysicist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Eight of the newly discovered clouds were more energetic than would be expected given the amount of radiation coming from the host quasar, even when observed in infrared light by NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope.

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Herbert Funsten is recognized as a world - renowned experimental space scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missspace scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missSpace and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missSpace 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missions.

Orion will use an advanced crew capsule design utilizing state of the art technology and is a key element of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and will succeed the Space Shuttle in transporting a new generation of human explorers to and from the International Space Station, the Moon and eventually to Mars and beyond.

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The FUSE Space Telescope (FUSE: Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer) was sent into orbit in 1999.

These are recent discoveries, made possible in the past two decades by improved ground and space - based instruments such as NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Galaxy Evolution Explorer, and the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observaspace - based instruments such as NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Galaxy Evolution Explorer, and the European Space Agency's Herschel Space ObservaSpace Agency's Herschel Space ObservaSpace Observatory.

«The Explorer Program has a long and stellar history of deploying truly innovative missions to study some of the most exciting questions in space science,» John Grunsfeld, NASA's associate administrator for science, said in the space agency's statement today.

Each animation in this «Backyard Worlds: Planet 9» project, launched Feb. 15, is composed of four infrared images taken of the same patch of sky over the course of the past five years by NASA's WISE (Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer) space telescope.

The report also found that its Explorer program that has supported small - and medium - sized missions such as NASA's Wide - Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) ranked second in priority for large - cost space projects.

A space mission called the Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE), now in development, could look for these spectral distortions.

LADEE is (the name is short for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer andpronounced «laddie») is an 844 - pound (383 kilograms) spacecraft that launched from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sept. 7 and arrived in orbit around the moon last month.

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People are becoming more aware of how things are made and how they could be done differently,» she says, naming outdoor adventurer David De Rothschild's clothing line, The Lost Explorer, as another company she admires in the sustainability space.

The Glenna Jean Cape Town Faux Leather Square Throw Pillow transcends any space in your little explorer's room into a stylish safari.

(An unnecessary scene of him having post-ComicCon sex with a «furry» while he's in a space - explorer costume is less his fault than it is Braff's.)

In Mario Party 2, aside from her traditional pink dress that she wears on Rules Land / Bowser Land, as well as the opening and ending of the game, she also wore five distinct outfits fitting into the five themes for Mario Land (a female pirate, a cowgirl, a space cadet, an explorer, and a witch for Pirate Land, Western Land, Space Land, Mystery Land and Horror Land, respectivspace cadet, an explorer, and a witch for Pirate Land, Western Land, Space Land, Mystery Land and Horror Land, respectivSpace Land, Mystery Land and Horror Land, respectively).

Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, and Ernest Borgnine starred in this sci - fi thriller about a group of space explorers who find a ship dubbed the USS Cygnus right outside of a black hole.

A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Michael Caine star in «Interstellar,» which follows a group explorers who find a «wormhole» in space which opens up new worlds.

It isn't often that the landscape of a motion picture becomes as integral as the acting, writing or direction, but in the newest Ridley Scott («Prometheus») outer space adventure, The Martian, the planet's crimson hues, frozen nights and horrifying sand / dust storms bring the story of an explorer stranded there with little help of survival to full life.