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... of a Space Act Agreement, to develop an online, collaborative global-monitoring platform called Planetary Skin. Planetary Skin would capture and analyze data from satellite-, airborne-, sea-, and land-based sensors. Governments ... (accessed 10 May 2011); Michael Burnham for Greenwire, “NASA-Cisco Climate Project To Flash ‘Planetary Skin’,” New York Times, 4 March 2009.'' NASA announced the selection of the members of the ...

... most familiar with, which is based on aircraft design, which is what they call frames, skin, and stringer, where you have a frame and you have these long pieces of aluminum ... and appear before Wernher von Braun and tell him why we thought we needed this skin, that the basic shell would not meet the reliability, and since Johnson Space Center had ... , for some reason, during launch and during ascent, dynamic air pressure got in under the skin and tore it off, tore off both sides, all of that outer bumper, and in ...

... the ozone layer could lead to thousands-as many as 15 000-additional cases of skin cancer in the U.S. alone. All life needs nitrogen to make proteins, McElroy pointed ... for increased world food production. Increased incidence of skin cancer concerned light-skinned humans, who were unlikely to get much sympathy from darker-skinned inhabitants of areas where the fertilizers-and increased food ...

... the titanium skeleton of the Orion heat shield to be bolted to its carbon fiber skin is at the Denver facility of the spacecraft's prime contractor Lockheed Martin. This will ... 3,000 bolts are needed to hold the skeleton to the skin. A special stand was built to align the skin on the skeleton as holes for the bolts are drilled. Work to bolt the skeleton to the skin will be completed in January. The heat shield then will be shipped to Textron Defense ...

... punctures during a seven-month period. However, all were in patches of the satellite's skin made very thin to assess the collision hazard. The patches, made of beryllium copper, were ... ,000, and 5/1,000 of an inch. None of the cells with the thickest skin was pierced. It was thought that the puncturing particles hit at typical meteor velocities of ... spacesuits made it possible to perform a number of experiments using sensors directly on the skin, even during boost and re-entry. Among these were measurements of the electrocardiogram, respiration rate ...

... wrapped around the SAS beam fairing. Portions of the gold foil laminated to the Workshop skin for thermal protection had been torn and heat and uv radiation from the sun had scorched the skin. The astronauts soft-docked the CSM with the Workshop, using only three capture latches; ate ... through the Workshop were televised to the earth. The Washington Post later said they resembled "skin divers snorkeling through a cave in the Caribbean" or a scene from the film "2001 ...

... ) A decrease in the amount of ozone in the stratosphere would cause an increase in skin cancer in white (the most susceptible) Americans, Walter Sullivan wrote in a New York Times ... latitude of Minneapolis. Correspondingly, the Cancer Institute survey showed an annual incidence of nearly 400 skin-cancer cases per 100 000 whites in Dallas, Tex., and less than half that figure ... Minneapolis area. These data, when combined with the DOT study, indicated that the number of skin-cancer cases in the U.S. would increase by 6000, or 1%, a year if ...

... weight after. Then we’d make sure that we checked his skin and his ears and particularly his chest area, the skin on his chest area, to be sure there was no ... the in-depth exams on them. We just made sure that the heart, lung, and skin, and the ears were clear, and that sort of thing, before they left. '''Wright:''' The ...

... did get a master’s degree in nuclear engineering at M.I.T., by the skin of my teeth. As I came to the conclusion that I wasn’t going on ... was an upper-stage, second-stage, upper-stage rocket that’s very thin-skinned. It’s a thin aluminum skin. It’s pressure-stabilized, which means if it’s not pressurized, it ...

... space particles, asteroids or meteors, and debris that might penetrate the watermelon's skin. The module's skin would also have to protect the guests from radiation, keep the oxygen inside, control ... , such as aluminum and titanium alloys. Only recently have inflatable space modules with multi-layered skin been tested and built to make sure they are strong enough to withstand the harsh ...

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