Sentence examples for spacecraft engineer from inspiring English sources

The book has become a bestseller in the US, enabling him to retire from his full-time job as a spacecraft engineer at NASA.

So while the team at the Jet Propulsion Lab put the finishing touches to the Voyagers in early 1977, spacecraft engineer John Casani suggested to Carl Sagan that they include something on board each craft that would address this.

David M. Durham, a spacecraft engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recalled that Mr. Johnson was known not only for professional excellence but for testing his wife's patience with his moonlighting.

But unlike a mine or a hotel, technology and engineers can be moved.Hugh Thompson, a spacecraft engineer at MDA, told a parliamentary committee last month that he believed that Alliant wanted his firm's satellite technology in order to win classified defence work in the United States on which only Americans can work.

On any given day, the cave might be home to a particle physicist from Berkeley, a molecular biologist from Russia, a spacecraft engineer from Washington, D.C., a rancher from Mexico, a geologist from Sweden, a tree surgeon from Colorado, a mathematician from Slovenia, a theatre director from Poland, and a cave guide from Canada who lived in a Jeep and spent two hundred days a year underground.

Newsround's Ayshah's interviewed spacecraft engineer Abbie Hutty, who's been working on a test model of Bridget.

Instruments of the unmanned spacecraft, engineered to penetrate cloud cover, provided data on a wide array of oceanographic conditions and features, including wave height, water temperature, currents, winds, icebergs, and coastal characteristics.

Improved models of the interplanetary meteoroid environment enjoy the interest of both spacecraft engineers and dust researchers.

Spacecraft engineers are generally unfamiliar with expected quantities or the language used to describe them, and seismologists are rarely presented with the challenges of accommodation of instrumentation on spacecraft.

The root cause of the loss in 1999 of NASA's US$125 million Mars Climate Orbiter which crashed into Mars was a mismatch of units – the spacecraft engineers calculated the thrust forces required for velocity changes using US customary units (lbf·s) whereas the team who built the thrusters were expecting a value in metric units (N·s) as per the agreed specification.

He earned a graduate degree in aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for seven years as a spacecraft design engineer.