Sentences with phrase «spaceflight on»

She and her husband George Whitesides are also signed up to take a sub-orbital spaceflight on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.

Post-flight analysis yields a database of samples and test results; which scientists can use to study the effects of spaceflight on the body.

The U.S. launched a chimp named Ham on a suborbital spaceflight on Jan. 31, 1961.

The three Penn study authors are also participating with Cognition in a NASA effort reported earlier this year to study the molecular, physiological and psychological effects of spaceflight on the human body by comparing identical twins, evidencing the need for a comprehensive cognitive test battery for spaceflight.

«Prior to this study we really didn't have much information on the impact of spaceflight on the liver,» said the study's lead author Karen Jonscher, PhD, an associate professor of anesthesiology and a physicist at CU Anschutz.

Wherever we go, microbial communities will faithfully follow, making this evidence of the effects of spaceflight on bacterial physiology relevant to human health.

Examining the effects of spaceflight on biofilm formation can provide new insights into how different factors, such as gravity, fluid dynamics and nutrient availability affect biofilm formation on Earth.

Scientists have simulated the impact of 21 day spaceflights on the body, and the impact of low gravity environments such as the Moon or Mars.

He listened to news of the first manned spaceflights on the radio.

«Cognitive test battery developed to assess impact of long duration spaceflights on astronauts» brain function.»

Not exact matches

The spaceflight company's VSS Unity vehicle on Thursday successfully completed its first powered test flight, Virgin Galactic tweeted.

Planetary Resources, a Redmond, Washington - based company founded by Peter Diamandis and commercial spaceflight pioneer Eric C. Anderson, is currently working on its own asteroid mining technology.

«Astronaut John Young's storied career spanned three generations of spaceflight; we will stand on his shoulders as we look toward the next human frontier.»

So far, most data on the risk of spaceflight comes from professional astronauts.

The Aerospace Corp., a nonprofit spaceflight research company, has released its newest prediction about the derelict spacecraft's doom: Tiangong - 1 should reenter Earth's atmosphere on April 1 at 8:18 p.m. ET, give or take two hours.

More than $ 3.3 billion was invested in the U.S. last year on commercial space companies, says Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a trade group for the nascent industry.

On Feb. 2, NASA also announced $ 50 million in awards to support the commercial spaceflight efforts of five other companies.

The Air Force is on the market for new orbital rockets for forthcoming missions, Spaceflight Now reports.

Like Musk's SpaceX, Boeing is focused on building out the commercial space sector near earth as spaceflight becomes more routine, while developing technology to venture far beyond the moon.

James E. Oberg, a former NASA space shuttle engineer and the author of 10 books on spaceflight who often debunks U.F.O. sightings, was also doubtful.

«The film gives a new and fresh perspective on the first great era of spaceflight.

Boeing is on course to reignite American human spaceflight with its CST - 100 Starliner, a 21st century space capsule that will take people to and from low - Earth orbit.

ThomasARickhoff on March 6, 2011 @lunhil12 I can not link the page but if you go to the NASA Human Spaceflight Webpage.

One hundred million euros could buy countless Ferraris, secure hundreds of places on a spaceflight or even be enough for an airplane or two.

Further afield, Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic brand, which is selling advanced - purchase seats on flights into space, also accepts bitcoin for commercial spaceflights.

At 3:50 p.m. Eastern on February 6, the private spaceflight company launched the Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time.

Genetic blueprints attached to a rocket survived a short spaceflight and later passed on their biological instructions

NASA's shuttle program may be defunct, but the next generation of spaceflight is on the horizon — and there will be plenty of jobs to go around

He entered orbit not as a tourist but rather as a civilian astronaut whose to - do list included snapping nearly 500 pictures of Earth and participating in a series of experiments to test spaceflight's impact on his immune system, sleep patterns and eyes.

Two private citizens have already paid a «significant deposit» to reserve seats on the spaceflight company's nascent Falcon Heavy rocket

In the past, space exploration programs have adopted two main strategies in supplying mission crews with resources: a carry - along approach, where all vehicles and resources travel with the crew at all times — as on the Apollo missions to the moon — and a «resupply strategy,» in which resources are replenished regularly, such as by spaceflights to the International Space Station.

In the essay, she touches on one of the great tragedies of NASA's human spaceflight program: It was on that launchpad that the Apollo 1 capsule caught fire during a test exercise, killing all three men inside.

That gibe earned laughs from the crowd but drew a rebuke from retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles, a member of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee (aka the Augustine Commission), the group that recently advised Obama on NASA's options for manned spaceflight.

Meanwhile, commercial spaceflight company SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, has captured its own foothold on Florida's Space Coast.

In a dramatic feat of engineering prowess, the private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster yesterday — the second such landing for the company, and the first successful touchdown on a ship.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

With so much under review at NASA right now in terms of human spaceflight, are there any other sites on the table that are being looked at for launches?

During spaceflights, and in future habitats on the Moon or Mars, humans are or will be exposed to a condition of «microgravity,» in other words to a gravitational field much smaller compared to that present on Earth.

But in spaceflight, weight is money, and these heavy materials place limits on the payload.

On the human spaceflight side, which accounts for about half of the agency's budget, Congress continued to support both public and private approaches to getting humans into space.

The final authority on private astronauts rests with individual companies and with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the regulatory agency that grants licenses for all U.S. commercial flights — now including spaceflight.

Depending on how these commercial enterprises grow, there could be hundreds of spaceflights each year from several outfits, or one or two may dominate.

Mission 5 of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is scheduled to launch to the space station on July 11.

Few eyes glanced skyward that day, nor would they in the months ahead — events on Earth would soon distract the world and set a new course for manned spaceflight that continues today.

Designed to examine how spaceflight affects potentially infectious organisms, the Micro-8 investigation will provide new insights into better management and treatment of C. albicans infections when they occur on Earth as well as in space, and may offer ways to combat other microbial pathogens.

carbon dioxide emissions per passenger on a Virgin Galactic spaceflight would be about 60 percent of a passenger's carbon footprint on a round - trip flight between New York and London.

Today, thanks to the blossoming private spaceflight industry, almost anyone can participate, although the exact mileage you can rack up depends on the size of your wallet.

Human spaceflight researchers believe crew autonomy will be critical on a Mars mission, mostly because of the hundreds of millions of miles that will delay communications.

«They didn't just put it on the blackboard, do a few dry runs, and kick it in the air,» says James Oberg, a spaceflight consultant who spent 22 years at NASA mission control.

Britain has a long - standing policy of avoiding any programs of the European Space Agency that involve human spaceflight, focusing its efforts on robotic science missions, earth observation, and the commercial exploitation of space.