Sentences with phrase «space flight missions»

Examples include Algodoo, a platform where students can design, make, and test Rube Goldberg — style contraptions, and Kerbal Space Program — available to schools as KerbalEdu — a virtual rocket launcher game where students can mess around and experiment with space flight missions.

Other findings were that heart rate and the weight loss on early space flight missions related more to time spent in a space suit, as opposed to time spent in weightlessness,» said Wotring, who also is chief scientist and deputy director of the Translational Research Institute for Space Health.

Not exact matches

Movie Budgets «Courage under Fire»: $ 46m «Saving Private Ryan»: $ 70m «Titan AE»: $ 75m «Syriana»: $ 50m «Green Zone»: $ 100m «Elysium»: $ 115m «Interstellar»: $ 165m «The Martian»: $ 108m TOTAL: $ 729m Fictional Costs of Saving Matt Damon (costs are in 2015 currency) «Courage Under Fire» (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue): $ 300k «Saving Private Ryan» (WW2 Europe search party): $ 100k «Titan AE» (Earth evacuation spaceship): $ 200B «Syriana» (Middle East private security return flight): $ 50k «Green Zone» (US Army transport from Middle East): $ 50k «Elysium» (Space station security deployment and damages): $ 100m «Interstellar» (Interstellar spaceship): $ 500B «The Martian» (Mars mission): $ 200B TOTAL: $ 900B plus change

It also means that Virgin Galactic's mission won't be completed when our first space tourism flights blast off.

Still, while other companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are planning much of their business around space flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space Staspace flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space StaSpace Station.

His experience spanned 18 years 6 months from September 1997 — February 2016 at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland as a Telecommunications Service Manager — Mission Routed Data Network (NASA Integrated Services Network).

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

Space and Flight Support ($ 370 million) covers astronaut health and safety and Earth - based communications with missions.

«Swift is always watching the sky for bursts of X-rays and gamma - rays,» said Neil Gehrels, the mission's Principal Investigator and chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Danchi, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is running simulations for the Fourier - Kelvin Stellar Interferometer, a proposed space mission that could lay the groundwork for the search for Earth - like worlds in the next deSpace Flight Center, is running simulations for the Fourier - Kelvin Stellar Interferometer, a proposed space mission that could lay the groundwork for the search for Earth - like worlds in the next despace mission that could lay the groundwork for the search for Earth - like worlds in the next decade.

Astrophysicist Fred Espenak of the Goddard Space Flight Center speaks for many of his colleagues: «With the current state of technology, planetary science can be done much more inexpensively with robot missions than with manned ones.»

«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.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the agency's New Frontiers Program for the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

When JSC became inaccessible due to dangerous road conditions and rising flood waters, the team at Marshall Space Flight Center's Payload Operations Integration Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who serve as «Mission Control» for all station research, worked to connect Wallace to Whitson using Wallace's personal cell phone.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the program for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

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.

«The presence of neon in the exosphere of the moon has been a subject of speculation since the Apollo missions, but no credible detections were made,» said Mehdi Benna of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center provides overall mission management, systems engineering and the safety and mission assurance for OSIRIS - REx.

A few hours later, however, on - board safety systems turned the spacecraft toward Earth and re-established contact with mission control at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Barbara Thompson, an astrophysicist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center, works on space missions observing theSpace Administration's (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center, works on space missions observing theSpace Flight Center, works on space missions observing thespace missions observing the Sun.

Bigelow recently ran a help - wanted ad for «professional astronauts» with «flight experience on a recognized space mission.»

NICER is an Astrophysics Mission of Opportunity within NASA's Explorers program, which provides frequent flight opportunities for world - class scientific investigations from space utilizing innovative, streamlined and efficient management approaches within the heliophysics and astrophysics science areas.

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

Gripping, detailed stuff for the true space fanatic, penned by someone who was actually at Mission Control during the flight.

Adding wings made of glass or other refractive materials in flight would allow astronomers to better steer future space missions, the team reports online today in Nature Photonics.

Dave Folta, a senior aerospace engineer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, says they are planning to use Howell's techniques — which he admiringly calls «highfalutin math» — for at least four missions over the next decade, including the Next Generation Space Telescope, scheduled to replace the Hubble Space Telescope in eight years.

Two of the space shuttle's 123 flights have ended in fatal catastrophe; the Columbia disaster happened just a year after the previous Hubble repair mission.

The NIC Human Space Flight team at Goddard is already planning the communications for Exploration Mission - 1, the first flight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed fFlight team at Goddard is already planning the communications for Exploration Mission - 1, the first flight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed fflight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed flightflight.

«Finding and publicizing new supernova discoveries is often the weak link in obtaining rapid observations, but once we know about it, Swift frequently can observe a new object within hours,» said Neil Gehrels, the mission's principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

Engineers on the project say the technology is perfect for such a mission, where storage space on the flight to the planet is a scarce commodity.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will monitor the landing of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko from their Year in Space Mission.

Sporting new instruments, as well as refurbished versions of detectors originally used on balloon flights over Antarctica, the refrigerator - sized, 1.4 - ton (1,300 kilogram) ISS - CREAM experiment will be delivered to the space station as part of the 12th SpaceX commercial resupply service mission.

Spending nearly a year in space, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his misspace, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his misSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his mission.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule's mission to the space station includes a clever mouse cell experiment that investigates how years of space flight affects humans

«This is a major advance in our understanding of what processes can energize the solar atmosphere, and lays the foundation for investigations with even more detail to determine how big of a role spicules play,» said Adrian Daw, IRIS mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«Over the next few years, major new astronomical facilities exploring other wavelengths will complement Fermi and give us our best look yet into the most powerful events in the universe,» said Julie McEnery, the mission's project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

Within 200 seconds, the satellite began collecting the first x-ray images of a burst's early stages, says mission director Neil Gehrels of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Ricker's winning team also includes NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., which is managing the mission; MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Mass.; Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), Dulles, Va.; NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.; The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, Calif.; and the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md..

The next Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station is Orbital - 3 which is targeted to begin Oct. 14 when Orbital Sciences will launch its Cygnus spacecraft from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

«Roger, uh --» radioed flight commander Rick D. Husband, 45, as he acknowledged news from Mission Control that there were wonky tire - pressure readings from sensors on the left wing of the space shuttle Columbia.

Today's inaugural flight of Europe's Vega rocket went off without a hitch as European Space Agency mission VV01 lit up the early morning sky above the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

The space agency plans 10 more construction missions and two re-supply flights to the space station before the shuttle's September 2010 retirement date.

Norman Augustine, who is chairing a blue - ribbon panel examining alternative futures for the U.S. human space - flight effort, hinted last week that the panel might shy away from advocating an expensive human mission to the moon, Mars, or an asteroid.

The rocket flight was part of NASA's Sounding Rocket Program, which supports about 20 missions a year, exploring space at relatively low cost.

Enrico Costa of the Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics in Rome and Gerald Fishman of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, won the astronomy prize for leading the development of space missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictuSpace Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics in Rome and Gerald Fishman of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, won the astronomy prize for leading the development of space missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictuSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, won the astronomy prize for leading the development of space missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictuspace missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictured).

«There's no guarantee where it would come down,» says Paul Ondrus, project manager for operational missions at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The gecko gripper project was selected for a test flight through the Flight Opportunities Program of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directflight through the Flight Opportunities Program of NASA's Space Technology Mission DirectFlight Opportunities Program of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate.

This would have been catastrophic not only to the satellite, but would result in thousands of pieces of new debris,» said Harry Solomon, Mission Manager for Suomi NPP at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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