Sentences with phrase «worked as an astronaut»

His popular tall tale is claiming his father, John Carter, has worked as an astronaut, sports coach, and lucrative businessman.

Not exact matches

Astronauts of the space - shuttle era would work regularly in space to maintain satellites as well as construct and maintain the International Space Station (ISS).

The six astronauts who live and work on the International Space Station will welcome 2017 at the same time as UK, reports NBC News.

For more than a decade Wickman was an engineer for Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space, where she worked on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and International Space Station Programs, receiving commendations from NASA for her contributions and being designated as Lockheed's Corporate Astronaut.

New, as of this past June, is «Beyond Spaceship Earth,» a permanent exhibit that gives a real sense of what life is like for astronauts living and working on International Space Stations.

Carl Ade, assistant professor of exercise physiology, and collaborators partnered with the Johnson Space Center to find that astronauts» exercise capacity decreases between 30 and 50 percent in long - duration spaceflight because the heart and small blood vessels are not as effective at transporting oxygen to the working muscle.

(McNair died in 1986 while working as a scientist - astronaut aboard the space shuttle Challenger.)

Expertise in training of astronauts and operating robotic systems in space (as demonstrated with our work on ISS)

But if it works as planned it could offer orbiting astronauts a replacement for something they are sorely missing: gravity.

NASA Associate Administrator John Grunsfeld, an astrophysicist and astronaut who worked on three repair missions to the Hubble Space Telescope, will retire from his position as head of the science mission directorate on 30 April, the agency announced today.

«We're committed to safely transporting U.S. astronauts on American - made spacecraft and ending the outsourcing of this work to foreign governments,» Bolden said last year as he announced payments of up to $ 92 million to four companies, including Blue Origin and Boeing, that are working on commercial space - crew vehicles.

Having to work with limited volumes of space available and accommodate complex engineering needs as well as design for astronauts living under stressful and exhausting conditions was a supreme challenge.

Toward that end he works full - time as explorer - in - residence for the National Geographic Society, holding perhaps the only job - with - benefits on par with astronaut for pure adventure and thrill.

Uniquely, the Apollo 11 mission emblem does not name the crew, as the astronauts wanted to ensure it was applicable to all who worked on the mission.

This shift in the lighting environment, known as slam shifting, can have many health consequences and inspired my work with NASA on creating light - exposure schedules specifically for astronauts.

[Editors» Note: As a result of this work, NASA will begin implementing a new lighting system onboard the International Space Station next year, designed to improve astronauts» sleep and waking performance.]

As NASA gets to work on the Constellation Program — the space agency's next not - so - small - step for mankind that hopes to put U.S. astronauts back on the moon by 2020 — the European Space Agency (ESA) has set its sights on learning more about our own planet.

Working then as a fusion physicist at the Draper Laboratory at MIT, he saw this achievement as just another step toward the goal that consumed him still: a career as an astronaut.

A couple of years ago, he spent 6 months working as a trainee in ESA's Crew Medical Support Office in the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.

From NASA: «NASA's Commercial Crew astronauts Doug Hurney, Eric Boe, Bob Behnken, and Suni Williams are working closely with Boeing and SpaceX this year as each company works toward flight tests.»

Astronaut is a new job title for her, but her experience includes work as an EE for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she contributed scientific instruments on several NASA missions.

NASA is working to get astronauts to the vicinity of the Red Planet sometime in the 2030s, as directed by former President Barack Obama in 2010.

However, the OIG report said that work on those replacements has been slow and complicated, in part because NASA did not have a clear plan as to exactly where it wanted to send astronauts next.

«As this nation strives to reach an asteroid and Mars in our lifetimes, we're working to solve every puzzle nature poses to keep astronauts safe so they can explore the unknown and return home,» said William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations in Washington.

The story focuses specifically on three of them, known as «human computers», who helped worked with NASA in calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit (in 1962), and guaranteeing his safe return.

The studios send the film to NASA Mission Control in Houston and then the team there digitally beams it 220 miles away to the six crew members stationed there working on Expedition 31 as well as 2 NASA astronauts, one person from the European Space Agency and three Russian Cosmonauts.

As a complimentary piece to the feature film, Gravity co-writer (and son of director Alfonso) Jonás Cuarón crafted this short work — Aningaaq — to coincide with the Gravity scene in which Sandra Bullock «s distraught astronaut establishes communication with...

««Hidden Figures» is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson — brilliant African - American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation's confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world.

For human resources, the doctor calls on his astronaut buddy Ben (Michael Chiklis); Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), who is currently working as a geneticist for Victor's company and is also Reed's ex-girlfriend; and Storm's younger brother Johnny (Chris Evans).

In his role as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Project 2061, former astronaut George D. «Pinky» Nelson is working on ways to improve science education in the nation's schools.

Besides rural West Virginia, I observed PE in working - class Chesapeake, Maryland, and at Yorktown High in suburban Arlington, Virginia, which boasts graduates such as the late senator Paul Wellstone, astronaut David Brown, and television journalist Katie Couric.

Although the game has been announced for the PS4, a release on Sony's console isn't going to happen until some time next year, as Polish team The Astronauts have been busily working to polish and finish the PC version of the game, which has just been set a release date of 25th September.

Created in the same year as Ken Price's first solo show at Ferus Gallery, Astronauts in the Ocean (1960 - 1961) is an early and important work by the artist.

In conceiving the quilt works that make up Codex, Biggers was inspired by the Afrofuturist notion of «Harriet Tubman as astronaut,» the renowned abolitionist who led slaves to their freedom guided by the stars.

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I think the idea is to make sure all of the bugs are worked out as much as possible and be able to turn those spacecraft over to anybody in the astronaut office to be able to fly.