Sentences with phrase «american human spaceflight»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

«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.