Sentences with phrase «yearlong mission»

I'd be remiss if I didn't direct you to what, in some ways, is an even more breathtaking view of our home — snapped on July 19 by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, on the 114th day into a yearlong mission as commander of the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who is 91 days into a yearlong mission as commander of the International Space Station, has been posting strings of photographs of our remarkable planet on Twitter using the hashtags #EarthArt and #YearInSpace.

Inside NASA, the yearlong mission was being casually referred to as a «shakedown cruise,» which is a term used in the Navy to describe a trip intended to test the performance of a new ship, Williams said.

-- NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon.

Thus, NASA launched the supplemental Twins Study, and 10 researchers are now comparing biological samples taken from both men before, during and after Scott's yearlong mission on the ISS.

[NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon]

Two veteran spacefarers, Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko, have been selected by NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and their international partners for a yearlong mission aboard the International Space Station in 2015.

Not exact matches

After several yearlong asteroid missions, incremental improvements to life - support systems and radiation shielding will pave the way to Mars.

Phase 2 of NASA's current plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s involves a yearlong crewed mission to validate the Mars vehicle around the moon.

Before that yearlong lunar mission, however, there would be at least five missions, four of them crewed, to deliver hardware, such as a crew habitat, Williams said during his presentation.

«If we could conduct a yearlong crewed mission on this Deep Space Transport in cislunar space, we believe we will know enough that we could then send this thing, crewed, on a 1,000 - day mission to the Mars system and back,» Williams said.

EXTANT PICKED UP DIRECT TO SERIES FOR SUMMER STUDIO: CBS TV Studios TEAM: Steven Spielberg (ep), Greg Walker (ep), Mickey Fisher (ep), Brooklyn Weaver (ep), Justin Falvey (ep), Darryl Frank (ep), Adam Rodin (co-ep) LOGLINE: An astronaut returns home from a yearlong solo mission in space and tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life.

He turned his chemistry class into a yearlong space mission where students solved complex chemical problems in order to save humanity from galactic doom, creating an experience in which the students were not only mastering the concepts, but were also, King says, developing a culture of respect and teamwork.