Sentences with phrase «space mission while»

I found a cool camera from a prior space mission while I was walking on the moon.

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While China has wowed the world with its bullet trains, India is pacing ahead in its space mission, launching valuable communication satellites

And while some governments could wrap the company up in space bureaucracy, they'll find it hard to impose the same levels of hoop - jumping that NASA missions, for instance, currently need to navigate.

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.

While the valuable minerals may be in space, the markets in which they are valued are on Earth, and suddenly bringing large quantities of platinum to market, for instance, would drive down prices, undercutting the ability to use it to fund astoundingly expensive missions.

What's more, SpaceX was facing the problem of funding their initial mission to Mars: While reports in 2016 estimated that the cost to launch one Red Dragon to the Red Planet would total around $ 320M, SpaceX had not announced actual mission costs or how the company intended to pay for this deep - space journey.

While Enlightened Mama has changed size and venues over the years, the mission remains: to be a safe space for community - building, evidence - based education, & unbiased support to empower individuals to feel confident & THRIVE in whatever they are doing — birth, parenting, breastfeeding, professional development, & their overall journey in life.

«Together, with our national benefactors plus the support of the local business community and volunteers, we can meet our mission of providing a welcoming space that celebrates, nurtures and empowers the LGBT community and our friends and neighbors in South Florida while setting an example for other national organizations.»

Dalung, who said this, while addressing officials of the Permanent Mission, Nigeria House in New York, said there was a brewing political revolution against «god - fatherism» in the Nigerian political space.

While nearly all spacecraft use chemical rockets for launching, once the hardware is in space, propulsion is still needed to manouvere the craft for orbital station - keeping, supply missions and space exploration.

«By investing in these studies, NASA will gain valuable insight into affordable ways to perform the Asteroid Redirect Mission while also advancing technologies needed to drive future exploration missions,» said James Reuther, deputy associate administrator for Space Technology at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

«With these system concept studies, we are taking the next steps to develop capabilities needed to send humans deeper into space than ever before, and ultimately to Mars, while testing new techniques to protect Earth from asteroids,» William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.

While the Johns Hopkins team studies the likely effects of radiation on the brain during a deep space mission, other NASA - funded research groups are looking at the potential effects of radiation on other parts of the body and on whether it increases cancer risks.

Almost all India's space research is headed up by the Bangalore - based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon misspace research is headed up by the Bangalore - based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon misSpace Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon mission.

But this satellite is just one of 50 being crafted by universities around the world, participating in the QB50 («cube 50») mission, a project managed by the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium as a way to provide hands - on education while conducting scientific experiments in space.

While working on a system to grow edible mushrooms from human waste for long - duration space missions, he recalls that «it occurred to me that not all astronauts will want to be vegetarians» (to say nothing of eating those mushrooms).

While the team showed that such a platform could theoretically be used to detect life on other planets, it is not ready for a space mission just yet.

While planet - hunting, the Kepler space mission has stumbled upon binary stars emitting pulses.

Now, finally, comes Pluto's visit by New Horizons, a mission that Krimigis helped usher into existence while space department head at APL.

Work on astrophysical theory to interpret space - based observations receives little support from NASA, for instance, because it's not related to a particular mission, while NSF managers focus on ground - based data.

However, Clark says, it appears that two cosmonauts are training for an 8 - day Soyuz mission to the space station Mir in 1998, while the rest are getting training geared toward China's own program.

While NASA's Johnson Space Center manages monitored debris threats for spacecraft related to U.S. manned missions such as the International Space Station, the responsibility for unmanned missions managed by NASA falls to the Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis, or CARA, team operating out of NASA Goddard.

While NASA takes the space elevator seriously, the idea is officially just one of dozens of advanced concepts jostling for tight funding, and it was conspicuously absent from President Bush's January 14 address, in which he laid out plans for returning to the moon by 2020, followed by a manned mission to Mars.

Such a mission would break the deep - space barrier, while taking a crucial step toward the two - to three - year flight times and 600 - kW systems that would be needed for Mars exploration.

TESS is a NASA mission scheduled for launch in 2017, while PLATO is to be launched in 2024 by the European Space Agency; both will search for transiting terrestrial planets around nearby bright stars.

While about 70 per cent of the manufacturing for any given ISRO mission is done by India's private sector, it is unlikely that a single commercial firm will step in to the space race, as several companies have done in the US.

To Casey Dreier, director of space policy at The Planetary Society, supporting such ambitious yet unsanctioned missions while acting to undermine ones like WFIRST makes little sense, particularly because Congress has proactively provided hundreds of millions of dollars for that mission already on a bipartisan basis.

The RESTORE - L mission would be «restructured» to reduce costs, while aeronautics research would be trimmed by 2.5 percent, and NASA's Office of Education — which manages Space Grant, NASA's EPSCoR, and STEM programs at minority - serving institutions — would be eliminated.

Massive cost overruns on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will imperil funding for the agency's on - orbit astronomy missions while potentially wiping out big - ticket space observatories and a host of less - expensive development projects deemed high priorities by the science community, according to expSpace Telescope will imperil funding for the agency's on - orbit astronomy missions while potentially wiping out big - ticket space observatories and a host of less - expensive development projects deemed high priorities by the science community, according to expspace observatories and a host of less - expensive development projects deemed high priorities by the science community, according to experts.

The bridge mission could be anything from NASA's ambitious plan to capture an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit where astronauts could explore it, to a small and temporary station where astronauts can learn a little more about fending for themselves while in space.

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.

Its costs, estimated to be around $ 1 - 2 billion, were hoped to be mostly covered by private donations, while commercial space companies like SpaceX were mentioned as possible providers for the needed hardware.Yet, during a hearing of the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee in November, Tito stressed that Inspiration Mars should essentially be a NASA mission, calling for Congress to provide most of the funding.

While the space observatory ceased its original data collection mission in May 2013 it has led to the discovery of 961 new planets.

The European Space Agency similarly weighted in on the subject during 2010 - 11, while evaluating a Uranus orbital mission concept called «Uranus Pathfinder» that had received a very positive assessment from the European science community, though wasn't eventually selected for implementation by ESA either.

A longer mission and a third crew member would allow the space agency to fly additional microgravity research, maintenance and other activities while docked to the outpost.

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future missions to the moon.

NASA's K2 extended Kepler exoplanet search mission is now studying the TRAPPIST - 1 system while Spitzer and Hubble will conduct follow - up observations in preparation for study by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set to launch in 2018.

But while Cruz is intended on ramping up NASA's manned space exploration program, he wants the agency to focus less on another of its core mission: Earth studies.

While many in Congress and the space community call for stability and continuity at NASA — no big changes like those imposed by President Obama — an exception is made for the prospect of restoring lunar surface missions.

While seedlings from Plant Gravity Perception will not wind up on astronauts» plates, their studied growth furthers our knowledge of perceptual thresholds and makes selecting appropriate garden greens likely to thrive in space easier for future long duration spaceflight, including exploration missions beyond low - Earth orbit.

Houston, we have a problem: NASA is running low on functional space suits, and while the US space agency has reportedly invested approximately $ 200 million to develop next - gen ones to be used on deep - space missions, they are still said to...

The project's backers hope that this will help kickstart a new era in lunar exploration, while creating a legacy for the way space missions are funded.

I do think that our program has been stuck for a while — that the space shuttle mission did not inspire the imagination of the public — that much of the experimentation that was done could have been conducted not necessarily with manned flights.

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While the last time we saw a variation of Lost In Space was in 1998 with a film directed by Stephen Hopkins, this upcoming television reboot essentially revolves on the Robinson family on a highly trained mission to establish a new colony in space, but unexpectedly pulled off course forcing them to crash land on a lost plSpace was in 1998 with a film directed by Stephen Hopkins, this upcoming television reboot essentially revolves on the Robinson family on a highly trained mission to establish a new colony in space, but unexpectedly pulled off course forcing them to crash land on a lost plspace, but unexpectedly pulled off course forcing them to crash land on a lost planet.

Now do we take that to mean he's questioning Kirk's desire to explore in the wake of Into Darkness, or have the crew been into their «five year mission» in deep space for a while, indeed have they even completed that mission?

Set in the year 2159, where the very wealthy lives on a man - made space station while the rest of population reside on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

Jean Grey (played by Sophie Turner) will be changed forever while on a mission into outer space.