Sentences with phrase «travelling millions of miles»

After traveling millions of miles through the solar system, the comet is on track to pass within just 730,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) of the sun during its Thanksgiving Day flyby.

Not exact matches

spent 218 hours in space, orbited the Earth a total of 137 times, and racked up over 3.6 million miles» worth of space travel

But as someone who has traveled more than two million miles over the course of my career, I have come up with some overlooked travel etiquette tips that everyone can benefit from.

You travel hundreds of thousands of miles, performing for millions of people every year... and run a variety of companies and ventures.

During hundreds of flights and millions of miles over a long and heavily traveled career, the flight home to California had always felt exactly like that, like I was going home.

Chrisomalis clocks about 150,000 miles a year (and roughly 2 million total thus far)-- much of them spent traveling between the company's New York headquarters and its brewing facilities in Nara, Yamagata, and Kyushu, Japan.

Because they (attempt to) care for widows, orphans, the homeless, the addicted and spend millions of dollars and travel thousands of miles to find people who do not any type of access to the gospel and translate the Bible into their native language, or build schools and hospitals as well as churches their witness and their faith is nullified because they (wrongfully) dismiss porn stars and the people trying to reach them?

Millions will pour into churches, but how many will be just like the priests and scribes of Matthew 2 who wouldn't travel 2 miles to see Jesus?

The 60,000 or so bees in a beehive may collectively travel as far as 55,000 miles and visit more than two million flowers to gather enough nectar to make just one pound of honey.

For his annual Hot 10 list (see the 2016 list here), Andrew Knowlton dined at hundreds of restaurants, traveled thousands of miles, and devoured something like a million calories — all in search of the country's best new places to eat.

Tabbed in 1961 by Roone Arledge (then an ABC executive producer) to be the host of a new sports anthology, McKay became a kind of explorer, traveling nearly five million miles, across 40 countries, over the next 36 years to seek out and report on sport's exotic secrets.

Just last Thanksgiving, 48.7 million Americans traveled over 50 miles or more and we can expect much more of the same this year.

Public sector grey fleet vehicles travel 1.5 bn miles a year, costing the taxpayer # 786 million, emitting 447,000 tonnes of CO2 and 1,118 tonnes of NOx.

Millions of Americans are expected to travel more than 50 miles from their homes for the holiday.

By then the shuttle was already traveling about 1,000 miles per hour and had burned through more than a million and a half pounds of fuel.

This past April business traveler Tom Stuker became the world's most frequent flyer, logging 18 million miles of air travel on United Airlines over the last 14 years

The bubble in question is actually a field of magnetic plasma, and the bigger this field gets, the faster it will travel, powered by solar winds made of particles hurtling from the sun at a million miles per hour.

This material then settles into a disk around the companion, and serves as the launching pad for blobs of plasma, which travel at roughly a half - million miles per hour.

Realizing that the corona extends much further than previously thought has important consequences for NASA's Solar Probe Plus because the mission will travel to within 4 million miles of the sun.

They suggest a population of P. transitus traveled miles of then - open water between South and North America, perhaps on a raft — the earliest mammals known to have made this intercontinental migration by more than 12 million years.

Proponents talk about tens of millions of plug - in hybrid or even electric cars, each of which might use 10 kilowatt - hours a day from the grid to cover 30 or 40 miles of travel.

The craft spent more than eight months in space and traveled 354 million miles to reach its destination near the foot of Mount Sharp, named for the late Caltech geologist Robert Phillip Sharp.

MAUNA KEA, HI — Scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory and Pan-STARRS1 telescopes on Hawaii have discovered a star that breaks the galactic speed record, traveling with a velocity of about 1,200 kilometers per second or 2.7 million miles per hour.

This mass of plasma travels at millions of miles per hour and, upon colliding with a planet's magnetic field, can trigger a geomagnetic storm, during which particles trapped in a planet's atmosphere are released.

A fairly large near - Earth asteroid found 3 years ago will travel safely past Earth on April 19 at a range of approximately 1.1 million miles, or around 4.6 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.

The movements of Jupiter's four largest moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto — were captured from June 12 to 29 as Juno traveled closer and closer toward Jupiter, starting when the spacecraft was 10 million miles away until it was 3 million miles away.

It takes about 60,000 bees, collectively traveling up to 55,000 miles and visiting more than 2 million flowers, to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey.2

In total, participants travelled more than three million miles — the equivalent to more than 123 trips around the world — as well as saving two million car journeys and more than 847 tonnes of C02.

The Guilderland Central School District runs an average of 90 buses each day — traveling more than 1.4 million miles a year (that's to California and back every school day) to 75 different schools!

Backing up those findings, an AAA Travel survey found that 46.9 million Americans will drive at least 50 miles from home over Thanksgiving this year, the highest figure since 2007 and an increase of 0.6 percent since last year.

Google's conventional Lexus RX crossovers and Toyota Prius sedans, the ones with the ungainly aftermarket rack - and - cone setup on their roofs, continue to roam Northern California — Google says its vehicles have traveled the equivalent of some 1.7 million miles, 1 million of them in driverless mode — while the company awaits a ruling from the California Department of Motor Vehicles that would allow it to test its new prototypes without driver controls on public roads.

Once completed, the project is expected to pull over 30,000 drivers off of the road, saving approximately 65 million vehicle miles travelled per year.

That yielded a crash rate of 2.19 crashes per million miles traveled while automation was being used.

I'm just seeing this article now, though it's May, however, I embarked on a travel hacking experiment last October, with the goal of accumulating 1 million miles by June 30, 2017.

Millions of Americans are now happily taking on credit card debt because their accounts will grant them points, cash back or airline miles for doing so, and half of those making summer travel plans will redeem those perks to make their vacations more affordable.

But over the course of earning over a million miles and points and booking first and business class international award travel for my family and others, I've come to realize the value.

Seven of them shelled out tens of millions of dollars for a trip on Russian Soyuz rockets to travel 200 miles above Earth's surface to visit the International Space Station.

He's redeemed millions of miles and points over the years to fund his passion for travel.

But by sticking with the same card long - term, millions of people could be missing out on features of newer cards, such as lower interest rates and more generous rewards including travel perks, airline miles and cash back.

About 175 million Americans carry more than one credit card, and many of those accrue points or miles good for a variety of free items and services — mostly travel.

Good article as I had never heard of this travel site nor yours as well until I saw an article on Million mile secrets.

Millions of people take advantage of earning miles to travel the world for varying amounts of money.

No matter if you are a new travel hacker or someone that has accumulated millions of miles, you are always going to look for the best redemptions.

Alex has since earned millions of travel points and miles, mainly through maximizing credit card sign - up bonuses and taking every opportunity to earn the most points possible on each dollar spent.

I started travel hacking five years ago and have since accumulated MILLIONS of frequent flyer points and miles.

Team member Keith recently shared how he collected more than 1 million miles & points to get $ 66,000 worth of travel to New Zealand and Australia.

I've accumulated MILLIONS of points & miles by travel hacking.

We base our World's Top 25 Trains ® list on millions of miles traveled by IRT owners, staff and clients.

«Through our partnership with South African Airways — our 41st airline partner — our 54 million members will have the freedom to enjoy the benefits of loyalty in ways that are most meaningful to them — whether earning miles during their stays, or using points to get the miles they need to travel even sooner.»

There's a reason why millions of people travel to Indonesia every single year; the postcard worthy moments are all around you and it's also the place where the world's best surfers travel to catch the waves of their life, with high cliffs and mile long beaches in the background.