Sentences with phrase «american spaceflight»

For more information about the International Space Station, research in low - Earth orbit, NASA's commercial space programs and the future of American spaceflight, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration

The lack of even one openly gay or lesbian living astronaut in the history of American spaceflight may reflect the culture at the NASA astronaut office

Through strategic Space Act Agreements and significant Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contracts, NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) has helped prepare private space companies to lead a new age of American spaceflight.

Not exact matches

Boeing is on course to reignite American human spaceflight with its CST - 100 Starliner, a 21st century space capsule that will take people to and from low - Earth orbit.

Clara Moskowitz is an associate editor who covers astronomy, physics, spaceflight and mathematics for Scientific American.

As the shuttle — the centerpiece of American space exploration for the last 40 years — paraded to its final resting place at the city's California Science Center, the future of spaceflight was orbiting overhead: Space Exploration Technology (SpaceX) Corporation's Dragon, an unmanned capsule, was circling 240 miles up, delivering nearly 900 pounds of food, water, and equipment to the International Space Station.

«President Obama has once again marginalized America's preeminence in human spaceflight, as well as the American taxpayer, for the benefit of his climate research programs,» said Representative Pete Olson of Texas when Obama released his proposed NASA budget earlier this year.

Absent a serious effort by the Chinese, Launius doesn't think too many American leaders will be too concerned about increasing American funding for human spaceflight.

Boeing is one of three American companies working with CCP to develop safe, reliable and cost - effective crew transportation systems during NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which is intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers.

It is time for human spaceflight space advocates to reexamine their rhetoric — to think about what these words mean to the vast variety of people who are not American, not white, not male, and not interested in moving to Mars.

Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation — a coalition of private space companies — said in a statement that SPD - 1 «directs NASA to partner with the US commercial space industry to return Americans to the Moon.»

As the American human spaceflight program began to build momentum, the nation started experimenting with chimpanzees, which are larger and more closely related to humans than are rhesus, squirrel or other monkeys.

The Commercial Spaceflight Federation's member companies, which include commercial spaceflight developers, operators, spaceports, suppliers, and service providers, are creating thousands of high - tech jobs nationwide, working to preserve American leadership in aerospace through technology innovation, and inspiring young people to pursue careers in science and eSpaceflight Federation's member companies, which include commercial spaceflight developers, operators, spaceports, suppliers, and service providers, are creating thousands of high - tech jobs nationwide, working to preserve American leadership in aerospace through technology innovation, and inspiring young people to pursue careers in science and espaceflight developers, operators, spaceports, suppliers, and service providers, are creating thousands of high - tech jobs nationwide, working to preserve American leadership in aerospace through technology innovation, and inspiring young people to pursue careers in science and engineering.

Have students continue the timeline of both American and Soviet spaceflight and make predictions about what will come in the future.

For example American Express offers a sub-orbital spaceflight costing 20 million points.

Dr. Smith has a PhD in Archaeology from Canada's Simon Fraser University and is a respected scholar, who has published scientific works in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, as well as Scientific American, Scientific American MIND, Discover Magazine, Archaeology Magazine, South American Explorer, Spaceflight, Skeptical Inquirer, The Next Step, and The Bulletin of Primitive Technology.

Dr. Smith has also been published in popular magazines such as Scientific American MIND, Archaeology Magazine, South American Explorer, Spaceflight, Skeptical Inquirer, The Next Step, and The Bulletin of Primitive Technology.