Sentences with phrase «space flight by»

The announcement will take place at One World Observatory in New York at 12 pm EDT, a day that also marks the 55th anniversary of the first ever human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Like its rival SpaceX, Blue Origins is aiming to reduce the cost of space flight by reusing rocket components.

Not exact matches

Inspired by the competition that eventually led to Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, Diamandis launched the contest with the goal of jumpstarting the commercial space industry.

Micra, a device which manufacturer and medical device giant Medtronic calls the world's smallest pacemaker (it's a one - inch long product that doesn't contain any leads), is being sent to the final frontier to examine how it's affected by high radiation and low temperatures during space flight.

The Saturn V was principally designed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, while numerous subsystems were developed by subcontractors.

His earliest voyage into space was on Gemini 3, the agency's first two - man flight, commanded by Virgil «Gus» Grissom, in 1965.

From 1960 to 1962, the Marshall Space Flight Center began designing the rockets that would eventually be used by the Apollo Program.

The Air Force said that Thursday's launch was the X-37B program's fifth space flight and the first to be sent aloft on a rocket by Elon Musk's private space cargo company SpaceX.

Giggling employees pass through a mock security entrance manned by «flight attendants» into a cavernous space filled with music, beer, food and versions of the airport's screens, with all their movies running at full tilt.

With a rocket - powered test flight, the billionaire's space transportation company moves closer to its goal of shuttling tourists into space by 2014.

«Hurricanes live and die by the amount of rainfall they make out of moisture,» said George Huffman, a research meteorologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

The successful solo flight of the world's most powerful rocket ushered in a new space exploration era driven by the private sector.

The report, which was first made by Sky News, says that Google is in «advanced talks» to place a minority $ 30 million stake in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and invest an undisclosed amount that is somewhere in the range of «hundreds of millions of dollars» in Sir Richard Branson's ambitious space tourism venture, which aims to take well - heeled clients who can pay $ 200,000 for a ticket to an orbital space flight around the Earth.

As SpaceX and Boeing race to begin test flights of their crew - rated vehicles by year - end 2018, all eyes are on the commercial launch providers ---- and what their success will mean for the American entrepreneurial space industry.

Should a passenger with previously booked space for his / her Service Animal or pet be confirmed on a flight and another passenger with a Service Animal as defined by this section desire to be boarded, Cape Air will seek out all alternatives available including offering the passenger with the pet confirmed space on the next available flight.

Yet, the universe is so accurate that we set our clocks by it, space flights are formulated according to it's preciseness.

It's Gladiator meets Lost In Space by way of Flight of the Conchords.

We know that sea levels are increasing thanks to the satellite observations, collated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as coastal tide gauge records monitored by Australia's leading science body, the CSIRO.

It was further reinforced by spirituality's flight from science (again, partially justified since Newton's absolute space and absolute time concepts were once again too objective for the mystic's intuitive life — an insight that Einstein has since confirmed).

This question was answered in 1983 by the lunar calculations of Colin J Humphreys and W Graeme Waddington, Oxford University, and refined and confirmed in 1989 by Bradley E Schaefer of NASA / Goddard Space Flight Centre, now Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Louisiana State University.

It was proposed by NASA to be an ideal food for long duration space flights.

The Veggie system was developed by Madison, Wis. - based Orbital Technologies Corp. and tested at the Kennedy Space Centre before flight.

Mr Conomos said the strong growth in private label groceries at Woolworths was driven by a flight to value by consumers as living costs rose, increased shelf space and more awareness of private label as qualify improved.

Sure, there was a lot of space afforded by both teams — but bad defending exists in the top flight too, as Wednesday's comedy at Villa Park demonstrated.

The trip going there was better planned: we had a four - hour flight, followed by a nice break in the Seattle area (including lunch at the Space Needle) and then a 2.5 hour drive to Canada.

But he said this could be achieved by diverting thousands of flights to London's three other airports to free up space for «hub» flights into Heathrow.

That decision was followed by regular Congressional battles over next - generation space flight capabilities, the asteroid redirect mission, and industrial collaboration.

The first suggestion that the flow existed came in 2008, when a group led by Alexander Kashlinsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, scrutinised what was then the best map of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the big bang's afterglow.

The team, led by Alan Kogut of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, took measurements with a radio antenna named ARCADE that dangled from a high - altitude balloon over eastern Texas in July 2006.

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).

OSIRIS - REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS)-- An instrument provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and designed to measure visible and infrared light from Bennu to identify mineral and organic material.

Using these new data, a research team led by Charles L. Bennett of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and David Spergel of Princeton University compiled a full sky map that reveals our universe in its earliest stages.

Last year, using ground - based telescopes, a team led by Michael Mumma of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center reported that Mars's methane is concentrated in vast plumes.

Now a team led by William Farrell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has modelled how dust could be thrown up at the moon's poles, where the solar wind blows horizontally over crater rims.

My brief flight through space and time inspired me to think about this sort of alarmingly frequent stupid driving trick — specifically, how things like this should by now have been rendered obsolete by automation.

«The ice cores obtained through international collaborations were critical to the success of this study in that they allowed us to develop records from parts of Antarctica not often visited by U.S. - based scientists,» said co-author Tom Neumann of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who participated in a Norway - U.S. traverse that collected several of the cores used in this study.

In my world, it was typical to be still at it at 3:00 a.m. the day before the conference — struggling with glossy 8 - by - 10s and the formatting of the bulleted list of conclusions that had to fit in the miniscule space available just a few hours before the flight left.»

«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.

A team led by astronomer Kenji Hamaguchi of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, used the XMM - Newton and Chandra x-ray satellites to study a stellar nursery just 550 light - years from Earth.

In Obama's budget the private sector would fill the void left by the cancellation of Ares 1, and a heavy - lift research and development program at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., would provide similar cover for the scrapped Ares 5.

Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

«With this record we have more biological data today than has been collected by all previous field surveys and ship cruises,» says Gene Carl Feldman, SeaWiFS project manager at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

There is no doubt that the 2015 study, led by Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, flew in the face of previous research and even assertions made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Carrie Anderson, who is trying to pin down the composition of these compounds by reproducing them at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, calls them «gunk».

The agency plans to start sending astronauts to the International Space Station on private flights by 2015.

Prompted by Webb's damaged thrusters and sunshield, the latest delay to May 2020 is based on the findings of another independent review helmed by NASA's Paul McConnaughey, an associate director of the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center.

A rocket built by a group of Danish space enthusiasts reached an altitude of 2 kilometres on its maiden flight last week from its base in the Baltic Sea.

A new simulation created by scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reveals just how far around the globe such aerosol particles can fly on the wind.

«This is the first time the amount and distribution of heat produced by fluid tides in a subterranean magma ocean on Io has been studied in detail,» said Robert Tyler of the University of Maryland, College Park and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Northrop Grumman now reportedly has teams working on the telescope 24 hours a day, and they will soon be joined by additional personnel from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which manages the Webb project.