Sentences with phrase «years as an astronaut»

Through his 21 - years as an astronaut, 3 spaceflights and 2600 orbits of Earth, Colonel Hadfield has become a worldwide sensation, harnessing the power of social media to make outer space accessible to millions.

Through his 21 - years as an astronaut, 3 spaceflights and 2600 orbits of Earth, Colonel Hadfield has become a worldwide sensation, harnessing the power of social media to make outer space accessible to millions and infusing a sense of wonder into our collective consciousness not felt since humanity first walked on the Moon.

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Before her tenure as a NASA astronaut, Jemison practiced medicine across the world, and served as a medical officer in the Peace Corps, overseeing care in Sierra Leone and Liberia when she was just 26 - years - old.

In «The Martian,» an adaption of Andy Weir's book of the same name, we follow Astronaut Mark Watney as he is stranded alone on Mars and must survive on the planet until NASA can mount a rescue (which would take years).

Last year, I met an astronaut, and he said that no matter how great of a career he'll have as an astronaut, he'll never truly make a dent on the galaxy.

Instead of letting it be like a kid who spends years looking up at the sky dreaming of blasting off into space as an astronaut one day, not really knowing what that would entail — or if they would even like it — why not let her explore it now?

Biosphere 2, a massive science facility tucked away in the desert foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, was built originally for controversial space exploration experiments (such as whether astronauts could survive in a closed environment for two years).

This year's grand marshal was astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who served as the pilot for the Apollo 11 mission and was one of the first people to walk on the moon.

Women in Space profiles 23 pioneers, including Eileen Collins, the first woman to command the space shuttle; Peggy Whitson, who logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station; and Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and more.

With the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet this year, the American astronaut corps has steadily been decreasing in size as U.S. spaceflyers retired or quit their posts.

Eventually, as the black hole evaporated perhaps a trillion trillion trillion trillion years later (astronauts in thought experiments have remarkable longevity), the astronaut outside the black hole would see the Hawking radiation associated with the infalling particle.

The wood - paneled walls around Koblick's office are filled with memorabilia that attest to his years as an undersea pioneer and a genuine player in a decades - long quest to turn ordinary divers into «aquanauts,» the name applied to those equipped to live on the seabed, much as crews launched into space get to be called astronauts.

Earlier this year, as astronauts busied themselves inside the International Space Station, engineers on the ground conducted their own experiment just outside the craft.

Over the next few years NASA is hoping for similar commercial success in taxiing astronauts — and many of these companies will likely offer private citizens trips to space as well.

Veteran astronaut Andy Thomas, a crew member on this year's inaugural flight of the reengineered space shuttle, says that stars from dry, unpolluted earthly locations look as good as or better than they do through the shuttle's glass view port.

«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.

Scientists and astronauts recall the telescope's finest hours as well as threats to its 25 - year existence

And in the institute's 140 - year history, these corridors have been traversed by 59 Nobel laureates and 30 astronauts, as well as Dr. Dolittle author Hugh Lofting, architect I. M. Pei, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, inventor Raymond Kurzweil, Ford Motor Company honcho William C. Ford, suspected Al Qaeda agent Aafia Siddiqui, and NPR's «Car Talk» guys.

Planes, Pools, and VR The dozen or so applicants per class who make the cut — referred to within NASA as Ascans (short for «astronaut candidates» and pronounced to generate a smirk)-- undergo two and a half years of intensive training before earning the title of astronaut.

An enraptured Chinese public watched last September as a 42 - year - old astronaut — «taikonaut» in Chinese parlance — floated for about 15 minutes outside the Shenzhou VII capsule traveling 213 miles above Earth.

[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.]

This week NASA put the latest piece of hardware into place, awarding a preliminary six - year, $ 183.8 - million contract to Oceaneering International, Inc., of Houston to design and build a basic spacesuit (for launches, landings and emergencies) as well as a suit for astronauts to wear during their stays on the moon.

As astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis perform what is likely the final tune - up of the Hubble Space Telescope, a 19 - year - old workhorse that has greatly advanced astronomy and the profile of space science, the European Space Agency (ESA) is readying two more heavy - hitting astronomical spacecraft for deployment into space.

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.

In recent years the ISS has become a vital destination for U.S. launch providers such as SpaceX and Boeing, which are competing for NASA contracts to ferry astronauts to and from the orbital outpost.

Iran and the United States don't see eye - to - eye on many issues, but both have viewed monkeys as good astronaut test subjects over the years.

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.»

The all - inclusive annual ASE Planetary Congress, held in a different host country each year, has a long history as the premier forum for astronauts and cosmonauts from all spacefaring nations to meet and exchange information about their respective space agencies, human spaceflight operations and future plans for exploration beyond low earth orbit.

It's been reported that astronaut Scott Kelly no longer has the same DNA as his twin brother after spending a year in space.

A group of astronauts may spend a year in orbit around the moon in the late 2020s as part of NASA's plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s, agency officials said today (May 9).

Arguably, the President laid out a vision three years ago — sending astronauts to an asteroid as a steppingstone to Mars — so «continuity of vision» would mean continuing on that path even though a strong contingent wants a return to President George W. Bush's 2004 vision of sending humans back to the Moon.

In his 55 years as NBC's space correspondent, Jay Barbree has won the respect and friendship of many astronauts.

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).

Whole Body Vibration (WBV) has been around in various forms for over 150 years and Sonic Whole Body Vibration has been utilized for years by astronauts as a means of preventing bone and muscle loss in a zero gravity environment.

Uhm — what we currently know right now as we can keep astronauts fairly safe for you know, about a year but they degrade rapidly and even after a year they degrade pretty far.

Academy Award - nominee Sam Rockwell stars as astronaut Sam Bell, who has spent nearly 3 years harvesting clean fuel to send back to Earth.

Rockwell plays namesake Sam Bell, an astronaut stationed on the moon carrying out operations as part of a three - year contract, at the conclusion of which he is to return to Earth.

Up - and - down shape - shifter Christian Bale gained 40 pounds to play Dick Cheney in Adam McKay's «Backseat»; Ryan Gosling also takes on an iconic figure, moon - walking astronaut Neil Armstrong, in Damien Chazelle's «First Man»; bearded Willem Dafoe follows up last year's nomination for «The Florida Project» as Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's «At Eternity's Gate»; and Rami Malek channels performer Freddy Mercury in «Bohemian Rhapsody.»

Produced by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment and CBS Television Studios, Extant stars Berry as an astronaut who returns home after a year - long solo mission in space to discover she's pregnant.

INTERSTELLAR — This year's Best Actor Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey is out of this world as an astronaut in another Chris Nolan («Batman» series) sci - fi saga, costarring Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain.

Although it's the third film in as many years about astronauts in distress, «The Martian» is a smart, captivating and humorous adaptation of Andy Weir's bestselling novel that covers very different narrative and emotional territory than «Gravity» and «Interstellar.»

But the inclusion of three films — Alfonso Cuarón's «Gravity,» which stars Sandra Bullock opposite George Clooney as astronauts detached from their space shuttle by a mission disaster, «All Is Lost,» director J.C. Chandor's account of an unaccompanied sailor (Robert Redford) stuck in a sinking boat, and «Tracks» featuring Mia Wasikowska as a young explorer on a 1,700 - mile trek — suggests this year's festival will make some moviegoers appreciate the roofs over their heads just a bit more.

As the launch date approaches, their astronaut — 17 - year - old Matha Mwambwa — must decide if getting into their precarious rocket vindicates her traumatic past or just makes her a glorified human sacrifice.

It's been over three years since Rian Johnson reacted to having been announced as the director of Star Wars «eighth episode with a tweet quoting The Right Stuff in which Scott Glenn's astronaut Alan Shepard nervously declares: «Dear Lord, please don't let me f *** up.»

Education World talked to Morgan in May 2000, just as she was completing her second round of astronaut training — nearly 14 years after completing the first round.

Dr. Jemison, the first woman of color in the world to go into space, served six years as a NASA astronaut.

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.

While the first space shuttle is scheduled to depart as early as April this year, Bohemia Interactive is still actively recruiting for people to join its Mars Astronaut training program.

Gamers play as a young astronaut who is stranded on a mysterious planet after a one way trip several light years away from Earth.

A team of eight at Polish studio the Astronauts gave us our first pick of the year, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, a compelling detective mystery that's as much about discovering the game as it is uncovering crimes within it.