Sentences with phrase «year in space»

They will survive virtually unchanged for hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of years in space.

I spent 35 years in the space business with some of the brightest scientists and engineers.

Updated, 9:58 p.m. Much has been written about the remarkable achievements of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart, cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, during their (340 - day) Year in Space mission aboard the International Space Station.

It is a time of change across America — sex, drugs, and rock»n' roll — and a historic year in the space program, but not everything is in upheaval.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly recently returned to Earth after spending on year in space.

Kelly's year in space revealed that he's a science ninja, a seasoned hand with social media, and a not - half - bad photographer, but it also showed that he's a pretty good comedian as well.

But going on their 11th year in space, the red, blue, and orange bots seem increasingly old and obsolete, says writer Evan Ackerman in a recent feature story at IEEE Spectrum.

«Last Sunday, after seven years in space traveling nearly three billion miles, Stardust landed in the Great Salt Lake Desert with a treasure from when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago,» says astronomer Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, who led the Stardust team.

Astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth this month after spending a full year in space, the longest mission for any American.

«Almost 4 incredibly intense years in space.»

The International Space Station program is getting ready to recognize the 10th year in space of its Columbus lab module from the European Space Agency (ESA).

NASA and ESA celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's silver anniversary of 25 years in space by unveiling some of nature's own fireworks — a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2.

This stunning new image was observed by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to celebrate its 26th year in space.

Meanwhile, ace investigative reporter extraordinaire, Al Manac, has been held captive for two years in their space lair.

No company has been more successful in the last year in the space than Amazon, with the powerful and versatile Amazon Echo.

To conclude, it's probably fair to say that the world of legal tech investment is only just starting to gear up, despite what feels like a frenetic couple of years in this space.

Here's a look back at the finest images from Scott Kelly's historic year in space.

Prior to building Carbon Footprint Ltd, he spent 14 years in the space business, where he had been project manager for the build and launch of two disaster monitoring satellites, and later held a senior business development position.

NASA revealed in March that after his year in space, 7 % of astronaut Scott Kelly's genes may have permanently changed their expression.

Since retiring in 2016, Kelly wrote a memoir last year about his year in space called «Endurance,» and he's become an advocate for improving science and math education in the United States.

«We noticed there's [sic] a lot of people who made a lot of money this year in this space and a lot of people who have a real desire to give back.

After almost 11 years in space and four years of orbiting Mercury, NASA's Messenger spacecraft (which stands for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) has run out of fuel...

The subject who did not experience SANS symptoms during the first six months of flight did start to show some changes near the end of his year in space, suggesting that length of time in space may impact the eye.

After 20 years in space and 13 years orbiting Saturn, the veteran spacecraft spent its last 90 seconds or so firing its thrusters as hard as it could to keep sending Saturnian secrets back to Earth for as long as possible.

Here's a look back at Kelly's year in space.

Stenger could also see if astronauts who did not have vision issues at the six - month mark, developed them when extended to one year in space.

Can we build a machine that will work after 71,000 years in space, including millennia of intense ionizing radiation?

Juno has spent about five years in space.

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It's been a marathon performance: 20 years in space, more than 200 orbits around Saturn, and hundreds of thousands of images of the giant planet, its splashy rings and its many moons.

Spending nearly a year in space, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his mission.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will monitor the landing of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko from their Year in Space Mission.

The new $ 8 billion price tag doesn't include operating costs of about $ 780 million for the far - seeing infrared observatory's first 5 years in space.

«We are very excited to have this important milestone in sight, but we will be anxious to assess the health of the spacecraft after Rosetta has spent nearly 10 years in space.»

«NASA's Fermi celebrates five years in space, enters extended mission.»

Over 9 years in space, NASA's pioneering Kepler probe has already found more than 2600 confirmed exoplanets, implying hundreds of billions in the Milky Way.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelley, who returned to Earth in 2016 after a year in space, chronicled his trip with a number of epic shots, including a full - blown space - suit selfie.

After 20 years in space, 13 in orbit around Saturn (SN: 9/2/17, p. 16), Cassini went out in a blaze on September 15.

If all goes according to plan, the critters in Phobos LIFE will spend three years in space on the round - trip journey.

After 34 years in space, 17 billion miles from Earth, Voyager 1 has reached or is about to reach the heliopause.

Cassini is clearing its memory ahead of its dive into Saturn's atmosphere early Friday morning (Sept. 15), a suicide plunge that will bring the storied spacecraft's 20 years in space to a dramatic, fiery end.

For both Kelly and Kornienko, the launch represented the start of a year in space.

In its five years in space, the Landsat 8 Earth - observing satellite has racked up some impressive statistics: 26,500 orbits around the planet, 1.1 million «scenes» captured, a motherlode of images that represents 16 percent of all the observations in the 45 - year Landsat archive.

MOST original mission was supposed to last one year and to allow the study about 10 stars, but it is still in operation after more than 10 years in space and was involved in the observation of more than 5,000 stars.

Scott Kelly just came back to Earth from his historic Year in Space, and he's set to undergo extensive medical testing in order to...

After a year in space, NASA says Scott Kelly's genes behave differently, and the effect may be permanent.

There is a very narrow window within which return is possible, and the commitment to launch is a commitment to three years in space.

(After almost 20 years in space, the $ 3.2 billion Cassini mission is set to end in September 2017.)

Over its ten years in space, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has evolved into a premier tool for studying exoplanets.