And only human beings are capable of adapting to the inevitable uncertainties posed by space travel.
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And, while traditional newspaper or magazine cartoonists are limited by space and dimension, GIFers are not.
Space-time, according to Einstein's theories of relativity, is a four-dimensional fabric woven together by space and time.
Technology has unleashed a global market unconstrained by space, time or travel barriers.
It does not experience, for example, the big swings in temperature and light endured by space telescopes positioned much closer to Earth.
And then there is, surprisingly, a substantial risk still associated with being in orbit, where you might be smacked by space debris, for example.
However, subtle changes to their body chemistry caused by space flight may place them at greater risk if they undergo medical treatment back on Earth.
Despite the initiative's youth, Buckley said the CIHR is excited about gaining more access to the station's orbital laboratory, where health research is performed by space residents.
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Tuesday's announcement comes nine months after the unveiling of a similar project by Planetary Resources, a company led by space tourism pioneers Eric Anderson and Peter Diamandis.
An alternative ending to this wishful-thinking, Edgar Allan Poe-esque scenario has Jimbo leaving the planet entirely, overcoming his xenophobia to allow himself to be rescued by space aliens.
Our experience tells us that the contribution made to U.S. national security in the future by space-based reconnaissance, communications, navigation and other systems will only continue to grow.
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Studies at the Gale Crater landing site have been on hold since the beginning of March after engineers discovered a problem with Curiosity's computer memory, possibly caused by space radiation.
The company, known as Planetary Resources, is also backed by space tourism pioneer Eric Anderson, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, Ross Perot Jr, son of the former US presidential candidate, and veteran astronaut Tom Jones.
Within hours, NASA will retrieve the science samples meticulously collected over the weeks and months by space station astronauts, as well as experiments that flew up with Dragon, such as flowering weeds and mouse stem cells.
Richer said that up to half of the stars in the universe were obscured by space dust and would soon be visible for the first time, thanks to ALMA's ability to pick up sub-millimeter radiation waves that pass through the dust unchecked.
The NASA scientist said the odds of an operational satellite being disabled by space debris remain quite small, though he points out that two have been lost after being hit by man-made debris -- a French satellite in 1996 and an American craft in 2009.
Every tile that's installed or a modification that's made to any space vehicle is closely monitored by NASA. A NASA supervisor was on hand with a clipboard, checking off various tasks by United Space Alliance engineers.
An experimental colony of bacteria stranded in space by problems with the space shuttle survived for six years.
The Scream in Space app, developed by Cambridge University Space Flight, makes use of several screams that were submitted by visitors to the project's website.
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The training scheme is being validated and will be run by Circus Space with the Central School of Speech and Drama and is supported by the Higher Education Funding Council of England.
The problem was compounded by the fact that subcategories were only indented by one space.
Along the bottom edge, it's interrupted only by a space for the call mic.
Until then, such a feat had been accomplished only by governmental space agencies.
The Golden Eagles beat Syracuse 74-71 in February by clearing space for forward Devante Gardner, who scored 26 points.
It will be the first complete satellite to be assembled by Clyde Space.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has volunteered to become the first person sent into space by his country's fledgling space programme.
This might be a little difficult for some to reconcile with my recent dismissal of a claim by Deep Space Industries.
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Ms. Sackman recalls that even before she learned of the home's history and architectural details, she was taken by the space.
That yielded a corpus of over 500 billion 1-grams, as Dr Michel calls a string of characters uninterrupted by a space.
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