Sentences with phrase «years by astronauts»

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.

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Speaking of flying through the air... my blog, in celebration of two years, has some high - flying fun and a link at the end to a short video created by an astronaut.
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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.»
Thanks to the new Advanced Camera for Surveys, installed 2 years ago by astronauts during the space shuttle's last servicing mission to Hubble, the telescope can now detect those ancient objects.
Analysis of a relatively young rock collected by Apollo astronauts reveals the moon had a weak magnetic field until 1 billion to 2.5 billion years ago, at least a billion years later than previous data showed.
«We'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history,» Obama said last year in a speech at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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.
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.
13 Laser beams bounced off mirrors left behind by Apollo astronauts show that the moon is moving 1.5 inches farther from Earth each year.
If the mission succeeds, astronauts could spend several years potentially being bombarded with cosmic rays — high - energy particles launched across space by supernovae and other galactic explosions.
The Senate bill, by contrast, provides $ 1.6 billion over 3 years to help industry build commercial spacecraft that would help ferry astronauts into space.
Astronauts who visit the International Space Station, the high - price and low - profile structure currently orbiting Earth, will be ferried there for the next five years by the Russian reusable space capsule Soyuz.
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.
Last October, a committee of independent experts chaired by industrialist Norman Augustine concluded that NASA faced a shortfall of around $ 3 billion a year if it still intends to send astronauts back to the moon — let alone Mars — by 2020.
After 17 years of continuous habitation by a rotating crew of astronauts, the International Space Station has become a hub for scientific discoveries that might never have happened on Earth, said Ellen Ochoa, the director of the NASA Johnson Space Center and a former astronaut.
For the last few years, the agency's envisioned «Journey to Mars» campaign has included the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), an effort to pluck a boulder from a near - Earth asteroid and drag the rock to lunar orbit, where it could be visited by astronauts aboard Orion.
However, NASA is considering putting astronauts aboard the flight — a change that would likely delay the mission by at least a year.
Assuming that one or both American companies are able to begin launching crew to the ISS by the end of 2018, that means the United States would have paid Russia nearly $ 3.37 billion over 13 years to train and transport 64 astronauts to the ISS, averaging almost $ 53 million per seat over that period.
Beyond low Earth orbit, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Experiment (LADEE) will, among other things, attempt to discover the cause of a faint glow witnessed above the moon's surface by the Apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago.
Ever New: Hubble Through The Years 1:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. (streamed on Griffith ObservatoryTV) 7:00 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. NASA astrophysicist Dr. Ken Carpenter and Northrop Grumman engineer and executive Mr. Russ Matijevich recount the challenges faced by engineers, scientists, and astronauts in their efforts to keep Hubble ever new.
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).
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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.
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.
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.
Forty years ago today, the Apollo 8 astronauts, the first humans to orbit the Moon, were taken by surprise.
The space station, with a volume of about 15 cubic meters, or 1 / 60th of the International Space Station, was launched at the end of September 2011 and was visited twice by astronauts in the following years.
About Blog The Mars Generation is a one - of - a-kind nonprofit organization founded in 2015 by then 18 - year - old Abigail Harrison, known to many as Astronaut Abby.
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