Sentences with phrase «used by the astronauts»

It's used by the astronauts in the International Space Station.

Previous research has tested how well radiation - exposed rats do with basic learning tasks and mazes, but this new Johns Hopkins study focused on tests that closely mimic the self - tests of fitness for duty currently used by astronauts on the International Space Station prior to mission - critical events such as space walks.

To investigate how space travel might affect drug potency, Brian Du, from the Wyle Engineering Group and colleagues sent four medical kits containing 35 medicines commonly used by astronauts into space, while four identical kits were stored in a controlled environment on Earth.

Long acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) such as IUDs and subdermal (beneath - the - skin) implants are also safe and reliable methods for this purpose but as of yet, have not been extensively used by astronauts.

It is currently unknown whether the skylight allows access to the lava tube (access may be blocked by rubble or solidified magma), but there is the tantalizing possibility that this hole could be used by astronauts to access an underground cave.

Spirulina was consumed by the Aztecs back in the day, but became popular again when NASA proposed that it could be grown in space and used by astronauts (1).

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sleep sack out there using fabrics that were developed by NASA for astronauts.

The success in reaching over 9000 pupils last year is thanks, in large part, to the many partners across the UK who have helped us by showing schools how to use the inspiring model of astronaut fitness and health to change children's activity levels and diet through learning about the science behind it.»

Between the late 1960s and mid»70s, Langseth was in charge of a project to study how heat escaped from the moon's interior, using sensors deployed by astronauts during the Apollo missions.

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

Instead of rocketing astronauts off into deep space, the Asteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric propulsion.

For the new study, the researchers used an extremely precise laser - based method to measure oxygen isotopes in a range of Earth rocks, meteorites and three lunar samples gathered by the Apollo astronauts.

JPL research scientist James Williams made the new studies using an old tool: a set of silica reflectors left on the surface of the moon by Apollo astronauts more than 30 years ago.

Under Fillon's plan, the CRV would be built in stages by adapting and modernising the Russian Soyuz capsule, which is likely to be used to bring astronauts back to Earth, at least initially.

Furthermore, a doctor in Chicago using robotic servants to sew up an astronaut on the moon may be limited by the speed of light, which lags the movements of the surgeon's hands over long distances.

Several scientifically interesting asteroids could be visited by astronauts with flight times ranging from six months to a year and a half using a 200 - kilowatt (kW) electric propulsion system, which is a reasonable advance over our present capability; the ISS currently has 260 kW of solar arrays installed.

Plucked from space by ISS astronauts using the station's multi-jointed robot arm, the uncrewed Dragon cargo capsule, made by SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, had already passed its pre-docking manoeuvring tests to show it can safely approach the ISS.

The station has also played a role in tracking major storms and hurricanes and «ISS in general has a unique vantage point for observing with both automated equipment and hands - on equipment including photos taken by the astronauts and we participate in disaster response networks using all these data available,» said Ochoa.

The problem was partially solved in 1965 by William Thornton, an American astronaut and doctor who came up with a way to measure objects using oscillating springs.

The WB - 57 fleet is also used by NASA to conduct high - altitude training for astronauts.

NASA is exploring the use of Microsoft's HoloLens by astronauts on the International Space Station; not for gaming, as is a popular use here on Earth, but to provide tech support.

Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).

The Martian By Andy Weir Broadway • $ 15 • ISBN 9781101903582 Who wants to see Matt Damon in the role of an astronaut stranded on Mars, using his scientific smarts and ingenuity to survive?

Also nominated in this category were Pets Race, a multi-player racing game where the characters are cute animals, by Kooapps from the United States; Drawing for Kids, a game that uses animation to encourage children to explore drawing, developed by Bini Bambini of the Ukraine; and Skye by Puny Astronaut of Scotland.

Here, the objects shift between artwork made by Keogh, props used by the performer and ambiguous technologies made by the astronaut in a vain effort to patch up the malfunctioning ship.

The iconic Retroactive II, a Rauschenberg silkscreen that features a prominent image of John F. Kennedy alongside an image of an astronaut, a weather gauge, a Polaroid of a glass of water the artist took, and several other images, seems to be held in particular esteem by the Tate, since it was used on all of its advertising materials, including the catalogue cover.

The soundtrack for this collage piece sifts together wordless vocals by Aretha Franklin extracted from Amazing Grace using a spectrograph and a recording of American astronaut David Wolf on zero gravity.

The applications for 3D printing in space are endless and could drive space exploration by allowing on - demand manufacturing of objects like tools and habitats needed for human missions, housing and laboratories could be built by robots using printed building blocks that take advantage of available soils and minerals and astronauts on long - duration space missions also could print and recycle tools as they are needed, saving mass, volume and resources.

Entrants to the competition were asked to design a base for four astronauts by using 3D printing techniques and materials indigenous to Mars.