He will play a big part in the space agency’s “one NASA” vision, said Dunbar, referring to NASA chief Sean O’Keefe’s goal of centralizing the agency’s far-flung IT and financial operations. “In space it will be robots and humans, not robots versus humans”, said Rob Ambrose, chief of the Software, Robotics and Simulation Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Thai-Tang grew up in New York City and joined Ford as a Ford College Graduate trainee in 1988. He spent time on Ford’s CART racing crew, was engineering manager for the Lincoln LS, chief engineer for the Thunderbird, and led development and launch of the 2001 Mustang GT, V-6, Cobra, and Bullitt models. Here, in his own words, is a remarkable journey that led from Vietnam to the heart of American high performance. This term originally only referred to the process of getting used to the constant pitching and rocking on the high seas. It’s broadened over the years, and now getting your sea legs can also mean getting used to any new situation. Then, it might use those legs as a scaffold to build the upper half of the robot.

Astronauts use the barcodes to log each food item when consumed — information used by the lab back home in determining future food lists. Another critical aspect of hydroponics is the use of light. He managed the technical team that designed, developed, and tested the car’s every mechanical aspect. Here, you can bring it home, you can show it to your friends, you can show it to your spouse, you can show it to your parents, and you can say “I helped do some element of this.” That was the attraction. They went through a selection process and I think what helped us was both my parents were college educated, and they spoke the language — actually they were more fluent in French because we were a French colony — but we had a small family and I think Chase determined that we could probably assimilate over here pretty well. One day in April 1975, we heard “White Christmas” and my parents got us into a car, sped over to my grandparents’ house, said goodbye, and drove to this meeting place.

The next day Saigon fell to the Communists. My mother worked for Chase Manhattan Bank in Saigon. In fact, Murphy learned spider plants have a regional nickname, “mala madre,” which means “bad mother” because the plant grows baby plants called “pups.” The pups look like little spiders, giving the plant its name. Your eyes and a section of your inner ear called the semicircular canal are the main players here. Inside the canal are tiny hair cells that detect the movement of fluid. The movement of a boat on water can easily lead to motion sickness, or in this case, seasickness. It’s this movement that’s sent as a message to the brain by way of some auditory nerves. This leads researchers to believe that the brain may be stuck believing that the rocking motion experienced at sea is normal and that being on land is disorienting. Rubin, Richard. “The Land of Lost Luggage.” Atlantic Monthly.

Couldn’t stand the sight of blood. They’re so close that if you were to stand on the surface of one planet, the other nearby planets would appear to be about the same size as the moon seems to us here on Earth. We were allowed one carry-on bag each. One of the things they left laying around were car magazines. If you’re like me, one of the scariest things about space is the fun science fact that gravity doesn’t exist there. The secret there is in the typography, he says. The second Global Hawk is set to depart the Dryden Flight Research Center in California and join its hangar mate in the next week or so. A real-world set of costs based on completed projects, listed in spreadsheet format. File format filters: Calc2LaTeX allows to convert Calc tables to LaTeX. And what if the only thing that made you feel better was being in motion? Motion sickness throws a wrench in this process.