Alitalia's trick this time seems to turn partly on spinning off non-flight operations, such as ground handling and maintenance, into a separate company called Alitalia Servizi.
While the sample size is tiny - a clear limitation to the study - the results reveal that 45% of the Apollo astronauts died from cardiovascular disease, compared to only 9% of non-flight astronauts and 11% of low Earth orbit astronauts.
Writing in the journal Scientific Reports, a team of researchers including scientists from Johnson Space Centre and Nasa Ames Research Centre describe how they compared the causes of death for the seven Apollo astronauts who had died up to that point with those of 35 low Earth orbit astronauts from the same era, and 35 non-flight astronauts.
The tibia and femur isolated from hindlimb unloaded mice were employed as non-flight controls.
Non-flight items such as an analyzer cover, an instrument support and handling tools are also seen Fig. 2 Cross section view of a three-dimensional LEPe model.
Results indicate that the level of eIF2α-p of the non-flight controls was elevated during hindlimb unloading and reduced after being released from unloading.
The very first feathers may have been nothing more than a downy fuzz that helped dinosaurs regulate their body temperatures (Ewart 1921) or served some other, non-flight-related function.
Third, the mRNA levels of ATF3, ATF6, and CHOP were lowered in space-flown samples as well as in the non-flight samples 4 7 h after being released from unloading.
However American Express is also a partner in the contest, meaning it's likely that wishes for non-flight gifts will be respected, too.
"Monarch use ground handling agents at all our UK bases to manage check in, boarding and other non-flight related tasks.
The flight crew was criticised for not maintaining a sterile cockpit during the landing, with excessive non-flight related discussion going on throughout the flight.
