Sentences with word «spacesuit»

You begin with just a few people in spacesuits floating in the mighty black void of space along with a Seed Pod, which acts as a generator for your first forays into base construction.

If all goes well, the next generation of spacesuits just might revolutionize human exploration of other worlds.

ILC Dover, known for making spacesuits for NASA and personal protection equipment for military, Homeland Security and industrial users, moved manufacturing operations — and the accompanying 115 jobs — from Mexico to Seaford.

On Jan. 25, 2017, Boeing showcased its newly designed spacesuit publicly for the first time.

The crew wore spacesuits when they ventured outside the dome.

Furthermore, as The Verge noted, NASA has also taken some of the funding away from those projects and redistributed it to other initiatives — and some of the money that the agency did use towards the creation of new spacesuits may have been misspent.

These include materials that could be used to make spacesuit fabric, gloves and a helmet's visor.

I was first shown Ripley's spacesuit from the first Alien as well as a helmet worn by John Hurt.

To help students better «see» themselves in STEM, the Mars Diary includes cameo appearances of real life STEM experts, like space engineer and spacesuit designer Vinita Marwaha Madill, robotics expert Peter McOwan and science communication expert Cindy Forde.

NASA's current generation spacesuit, the EMU (Extravehicular Mobility Unit), is as awkward as its avian namesake.

Subsequently, NASA put new standards place as to how commercial companies should compensate astronauts for use of their image in advertisements, and to protect their right of publicity to control their image, even when their faces are not visible behind spacesuit helmets.

The Lynx's cockpit will be sealed and pressurized, and its occupants will wear pressurized spacesuits.

Steve Tananbaum has kept a portion of the couple's collection at his Midtown New York office — including two spacesuits by Tom Sachs.

Space may be the final frontier, but it's also inaccessible (and deadly) to human beings without a good spacesuit.

NASA has yet to incorporate the suit into its plans, but it's a good representation of how spacesuits may continue to evolve to meet the intense needs of space exploration in the future.

Cause of death: Rescues Peter Quill from Ego's planet, giving him the only spacesuit so that Quill can survive instead of himself.

Seriously, if NASA's looking for some new space - age material to build spacesuits out of, velour is the ticket man.

EMU: If a traditional spacesuit gets torn, it immediately begins to decompress.

While skintight spacesuits have been proposed in the past, there's been one persistent design hurdle: how to squeeze in and out of a pressurized suit that's engineered to be extremely tight.

Best dressed Though often seen in Chucks or Ban - Lon trousers (see Nelson's Rocket Men) here on Earth, the classic images of astronauts show them in white spacesuits adorned with mission patches, name label and shiny red, blue and silver hose connectors.

At our largest - ever Young Women's Conference, participants cycled through speaker sessions, laboratory tours, and a hands - on exhibit hall before closing the day with a keynote address from NASA spacesuit design engineer, Heather Paul.

However, the helmet on Damon's spacesuit does seem to be bigger than other astronaut suits we've seen before, so I wonder what function that serves.

Plastic in Apollo spacesuits, Andy Warhol paintings and other museum pieces is falling apart.

To grab onto Phobos — which may harbor a lot of ice that could be turned into rocket fuel — Lockheed Martin has proposed the spider flyer - walker: an eight - legged, rocket - powered spacesuit that can crawl, walk, or hop across the surface.

The Z - series spacesuit line is still in the prototype phase, seeking to advance and develop technologies that will allow astronauts to amble about on the surface of Mars someday.

13 - One CEO Hema Nambiar pitches her start - up, which uses spacesuit material for athletic jackets, on CNBC's «Power Pitch.»

During the test launch, the Falcon Heavy rocket carried SpaceX founder Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster and a mannequin wearing a SpaceX spacesuit.

Star City also has a museum showcasing spacesuits, charred descent capsules and assorted Gagarin memorabilia, including the YG 1 number plate of the Rolls - Royce that drove him past ecstatic crowds in London three months after his first space flight.

«Imagine if an alien species landed on Earth wearing elaborate spacesuits and walked through Manhattan speaking random lines from The Godfather to passers - by,» he says.

Some of my crew members said they had their most realistic experiences of «Mars» after putting on their simulated spacesuits, communicating by radio, hiking to lava tubes and imagining the possibilities.

Clad in bulky spacesuits, station commander Peggy Whitson and flight engineer Dan Tani floated outside the station for seven hours on the 100th spacewalk devoted to space station assembly and maintenance.

They could only leave the dome while wearing a mock spacesuit.

Few symbols of vision and achievement are more powerful than the Apollo mission spacesuits.

Still, Kevlar is used in other materials besides body armor, including spacesuits, city roads, fiber - optic cables, high - performance sporting goods and apparel, cellphones and mining belts, according to DuPont.

Oceaneering International beat out a joint venture by leading spacesuit contractors United Technologies Corporation's Hamilton Sundstrand of Windsor Locks, Conn., and ILC Dover, LP, of Frederica, Del., for the new contract, which could be worth up to $ 745 million when all is said and done, according to Reuters.

This week NASA put the latest piece of hardware into place, awarding a preliminary six - year, $ 183.8 - million contract to Oceaneering International, Inc., of Houston to design and build a basic spacesuit (for launches, landings and emergencies) as well as a suit for astronauts to wear during their stays on the moon.

It was almost like a miniature spacesuit.

Forget spacesuits, solid rocket boosters and robot arms — more sentimental and whimsical objects have reached escape velocity

There are texts and meditations on the power and purpose of science fiction, both as art form and intellectual tool, but visitors are left to piece together their own ideas — difficult while being accosted by a real Darth Vader mask, Star Trek spacesuits and an enormous, loud, interactive NASA console.

During the flights, the astronauts wore a 20 - pound spacesuit designed to back up the capsule's support system and remained restrained by a harness in a semi-supine position while performing their tasks.

One side of the small world enjoyed perpetual night, and in his heat - resistant spacesuit it was just cool enough to stand and drill into the ground.

The team will also carry out Mars - relevant engineering research, testing biomedical tele - science, spacesuit technologies, EVA traverse strategies, astronaut cross-training in the field and habitat technologies.

Dr. Kevin Fong, described in a chyron as a medical space specialist, weighs in on the veracity of the heavy spacesuits the performers wear, and movement coach Alexandra Reynolds talks about keeping the actors in a zero - gravity frame of mind.

Director Ridley Scott's regular costumer Janty Yates has created possibly the sexiest spacesuits ever seen on screen, and what's more they are functional.

Combining their choices (subtly designated with a cutline and a tiny red square) with other images, the editors also include particulars about each mission, including any firsts (live TV broadcast, flights of spacecrafts, use of special spacesuits).

Now they will have to plead for calm for a decidedly more media - friendly reason, as the long awaited launch spacesuit and new Halloween mask become available for download next Thursday, November 7th.

The Fall has been out for a while, but this eerie tale of an AI spacesuit on a desperate quest to save its ailing occupant has now found its way to Nintendo Switch.