Sentences with phrase «space mission when»

The Enterprise is three years into its five - year deep - space mission when it has the misfortune to encounter Krall (the suitably fearsome Idris Elba), a reptilian - looking alien lusting after a «death machine» artifact in the possession of Captain Kirk and Co..

5 In 1967 Vladimir M. Komarov became the first person to die on a space mission when parachutes on his Soyuz 1 capsule failed to open during descent.

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The idea of vacation is (unfortunately) antiquated when you are carrying around a phone with more power than the Apollo space mission had.

When asked for comment on Tiangong - 1's threat to ongoing NASA missions, the space agency told Business Insider it «actually doesn't track any debris.»

Peake is set to become the first British astronaut to board the International Space Station (ISS) when he departs on a 6 - month mission in November.

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

The Mission recently took a big step forward when we found a little space of our own to rent in downtown Dayton.

I did find it a bit odd that the Doctor mentioned that this event in 2049 was what rebooted the space programs and sent humanity to the stars when he said something very similar in the Waters of Mars episode about Adelaide Brook's grand - daughter being inspired by their failed mission.

Bowien took that audacious attitude with him when he opened the first Mission Chinese in New York City in a tiny space in the Lower East Side.

Or when they go on a space mission through the garden to the climbing frame rocket with football helmets under their arms.

The eLISA mission, a space observatory consisting of three miniature satellites, will hunt for waves with frequencies under 1 hertz when it launches in the 2030s.

When NASA announced that it was accepting proposals for the Discovery program, a new class of low - cost, three - year space missions, he immediately applied.

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.

Johns Hopkins scientists report that rats exposed to high - energy particles, simulating conditions astronauts would face on a long - term deep space mission, show lapses in attention and slower reaction times, even when the radiation exposure is in extremely low dose ranges.

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

Writer Kurson tells this lesser - known tale with suspense, describing how NASA decided to aim for the moon just 16 weeks before launching the mission, at a time when the Soviet Union seemed to be leading the space race.

Finally it showed that our solar system is larger than previously thought: when the mission ended, with the probe 6.2 billion miles from Earth, it was still detecting solar - wind particles, indicating that it had not yet crossed the heliopause — the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

In the European Space Agency's (ESA's) control room in Darmstadt, Germany, the mood was anxious and all eyes were glued to the mission control computer screens as a spidery, three - legged lander named Philae detached from its parent spacecraft, Rosetta, and made its slow descent to the surface of a comet — and cheers and hugging broke out on 12 November when the control room received confirmation that the lander had arrived.

The mission, which kicked into high gear when the probe started orbiting comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in August 2014, has officially had its funding extended to September 2016, the European Space Agency announced June 23.

Kathryn Flanagan, deputy director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, says that the U.S. space science education community breathed a «huge sigh of relief» when Congress reasserted the mission directorate's key role in educaSpace Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, says that the U.S. space science education community breathed a «huge sigh of relief» when Congress reasserted the mission directorate's key role in educaspace science education community breathed a «huge sigh of relief» when Congress reasserted the mission directorate's key role in education.

Reliable space - to - ground communication is critical to all missions — when astronauts venture outside the International Space Station to install new equipment and perform important maintenance, as well as for any other on - orbit nspace - to - ground communication is critical to all missions — when astronauts venture outside the International Space Station to install new equipment and perform important maintenance, as well as for any other on - orbit nSpace Station to install new equipment and perform important maintenance, as well as for any other on - orbit needs.

«Typically when you fly a mission beyond Earth orbit, you launch and go around Earth a couple times, and you communicate through the Near Earth Network and the Space Network,» Severance said.

Chris Russell, the principal investigator for the Dawn mission, was at a conference on low - cost space exploration in Japan in November 2005 when he got the news: NASA's Science Mission Directorate had decided to put Dawn in «stand down»mission, was at a conference on low - cost space exploration in Japan in November 2005 when he got the news: NASA's Science Mission Directorate had decided to put Dawn in «stand down»Mission Directorate had decided to put Dawn in «stand down» mode.

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.

Orbital Sciences Cygnus commercial cargo craft completed a month - long delivery mission to the International Space Station Friday when it was released from the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm at 6:40 a.m. EDT.

When SMART - 1, the European Space Agency's first mission to the moon, launched in September 2003, astronomers hailed it as the testing ground for a revolutionary and efficient solar - electric - propulsion technology.

When the Bush Administration decided to include the crewed moon mission as one of NASA's primary objectives, the goal was to inspire excitement and innovation, said Lester Lyles, a retired U.S. Air Force general who served on NASA's Augustine Commission last year, which was arranged to offer advice on the space program to Obama.

But it will probably land on the far side, where it will be out of view until 2024, when the European Space Agency's BepiColombo mission arrives.

But there was a time when space travel kindled grandiose visions in scientists» minds, when rockets were as tall as skyscrapers and an unmanned mission seemed a failure of nerve.

1 Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, died when he crashed his MIG - 15 on a training mission.

The idea is to see how the materials fare when exposed to a space environment for more than 200 days, perhaps giving an indication of how long the X-37B's latest voyage will last — although it has previously flown missions lasting almost 2 years.

NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a NASA F / A -18 aircraft recently to simulate a rocket in its early flight phase to test adaptive software for NASA's new rocket the Space Launch System (SLS), the largest, most powerful launch vehicle for deep space missSpace Launch System (SLS), the largest, most powerful launch vehicle for deep space missspace missions.

«When you have this enormous field of view you can address scientific problems that really are not practical with missions like Hubble or Webb,» says Jeffrey Kruk, the WFIRST project scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

ESTEC also houses a large pool of people with highly specialised technical knowledge, who are assigned to space projects when their expertise is needed for missions.

Mission control confirmed end of operations just a few minutes later, at 3:40 p.m., when no signal was detected by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) station in Goldstone, California, at the time the spacecraft would have emerged from behind the planet.

Instead, the asteroid initiative was designed to advance long - term human space exploration in a time when the budget doesn't exist for human missions to the Moon.

Scientists at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) rejoiced yesterday (21 February) when the word came — two Swedish instruments have been included on the European Space Agency's forthcoming mission to the giant planet Jupiter and its icy moons.

When asked by Cruz to define NASA's core mission, Bolden said that the 1958 National Aeronautics and Space Act, in short, directs the agency «to investigate, explore space and the earth environment and help us make this place a better placSpace Act, in short, directs the agency «to investigate, explore space and the earth environment and help us make this place a better placspace and the earth environment and help us make this place a better place....

Fifty years into the Space Age, we are still in the golden age of robotic exploration of our solar system, when each mission is unprecedented in some way as we push the limits of what is possible.

Despite President Trump's statement during the Earth - to - space videoconference on April 24, when he hinted NASA should expedite its Mars mission, the space agency will be proceeding as originally scheduled.

The researchers hope that their technique may prove especially useful when upcoming space missions such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Ariel Space Mission start providing more detailed atmospheric observations of potentially habitable exoplaspace missions such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Ariel Space Mission start providing more detailed atmospheric observations of potentially habitable exoplaSpace Telescope and the European Space Agency's Ariel Space Mission start providing more detailed atmospheric observations of potentially habitable exoplaSpace Agency's Ariel Space Mission start providing more detailed atmospheric observations of potentially habitable exoplaSpace Mission start providing more detailed atmospheric observations of potentially habitable exoplanets.

Though earlier studies clearly showed that astronauts on these extended missions suffered serious deficits from lengthy times in a low - gravity environment, including dizziness when standing up, considerable loss of bone mass, and impaired muscle function, little was known about the effects of long - term space flight on the heart and vascular system.

When Europe's Rosetta mission detected molecular oxygen venting into space from comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in 2015, scientists were puzzled.

Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot and Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen announced formation of the IRB on March 27 when they revealed another delay to the launch of the $ 8 billion space telescope.

Join us as we remember how Hubble has contributed to this important mission and explore the ways in which the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will expand upon exoplanet discoveries in our new Hubble 25th anniversary science article, «What will we learn about exoplanets when the James Webb Space Telescope is launched?»

The space agency is launching these missions at a time when decades of observations from the ground, air, and space have revealed signs of change in Earth's ice sheets, sea ice, glaciers, snow cover and permafrost.

When space enthusiasts think about the Apollo program, they instantly recall the lunar missions which landed a total of a dozen NASA astronauts on the Moon.

Instead, their primary purpose is to see if CubeSats can survive the harsh conditions of an extended deep space mission and still perform tasks when they arrive at their destination.

When venturing into long, manned deep space missions, the threat of radiation exposure is significantly higher, posing one of the most significant challenges facing NASA as it prepares to launch manned missions to Mars.