Sentence examples similar to serving as a ground from inspiring English sources

After serving as a ground-based communicator on the second and third Space Shuttle flights in the early 1980s (which is what she's doing in the feature photo on this story) Ride herself went to space twice: Mission STS-7 aboard the shuttle Challenger, which lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on June 18 , 1983 and the STS 41-G, which launched from Kennedy Space Center on October 5, 1984.

Flickr is generally used for collections of high resolution images, with the comments area serving as a grounds for conversations that stretch on indefinitely.

The units are joined by a raised platform that serves as a "ground level" above the street.

The vegetation consists chiefly of coconut palms, which were formerly cultivated for copra on plantations; on North Keeling and Horsburgh islands, coarse grass serves as a ground cover.

Ockels served as a ground communicator and liaison-scientist for the crew on board the space shuttle Columbia during the STS-9/Spacelab-1 minsion in 1983.

Mr. McCaughey replaced the zinc plate that fastens to the transom in the stern and serves as a ground for the boat's electrical system.

He served as a "ground pounder" -- an infantryman -- in Vietnam and it was there that he developed an interest in helicopters.

The United States has established contact with the Northern Alliance in the hope that it will serve as a ground force capable of dislodging the radical Islamic Taliban leadership.

This classification served as a ground truth.

A real breast CT volume serves as a ground truth digital phantom from which to simulate X-ray projections under the various acquisition parameters.

The surface of the rotating knife was partly exposed to an atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge operated in air, where the knife itself served as a ground electrode.