Sentences with phrase «american space programs»

Perhaps the most significant, and most successful, information - selling process of the second half of our century was the selling of science and technology through the American space program.

NASA Alumni League, reseach grant for «Space Stories: Oral Histories from the Pioneers of the American Space Program,» 1999.

Space Stories: Oral Histories from the Pioneers of the American Space Program has been published as an e-book containing condensed versions of selected interviews.

Honeywell Corporation, reseach grant for «Space Stories: Oral Histories from the Pioneers of the American Space Program,» 1998.

During my anthropological career, I have conducted well over 400 tape - recorded interviews with diverse individuals and groups, including pregnant women and mothers, nurses, midwives, obstetricians, holistic physicians, legislators, aerospace engineers, and key figures in the development of the American space program.

Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (IAIR), research grant for «Space Stories: Oral Histories from the Pioneers of the American Space Program,» 1999; grant for interview with Dr. Richard Smalley, Nobel Prize Winner for the invention of nano - technology, 2000.

Almost Heaven illuminates the decades - long struggle by women to achieve equal status with men as fully qualified participants in the American space program.

He likes America, having spent a few years at the University of California at Los Angeles; he cooperates with the American space program every day on all sorts of joint missions.

As of today, only 12 people — all of them men and all of them part of the American space program — have walked on the moon.

A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.

This documentary encapsulates the ambitions of the American space program and its nine missions to the moon.

The 2016 film was based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, who told the true story of the black female mathematicians and scientists who were unsung heroes in launching the early - day of the American space program.

It's a beautifully written and compelling history of the trajectory of the American space program and those devoted to it.

«The American space program drew to a close last year,» he says.

«Art, Technology, and the American Space Program, 1962 — 1972» and «Billy Klüver and the Foundation of Experiments in Art and Technology.»

The American space program was a massive undertaking.

Not exact matches

SpaceX and Boeing are both building spacecraft for NASA's commercial crew program, with the project goal being to get American astronauts on American rockets back into space.

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 spaceflSpace 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 spaceflspace companies to lead a new age of American spaceflight.

While watching an American TV program, Aldman noticed the position of the astronauts in the Gemini space capsule.

Americans will head back to the moon under a new directive issued by Trump as he takes another step toward re-energizing the nation's space program.

Fortunately, Muktoyuk chose to take advantage of the Native Americans in Marine and Space Sciences (NAMSS) Program, a special effort by OSU to recruit and retain underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

But these are more technically impressive feats than the kind of imagination - capturing successes of the 60s, which has led to the Americans becoming increasingly bored with the space program.

«He's the first American president since his father who has no idea why we have a space program.

About this Book: We Could Not Fail The First African Americans in the Space Program Richard Paul and Steven Moss University of Texas Press, 2015

First, Claudia Alexander of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, reviewed We Could Not Fail, which «presents the biographies of 10 African - American engineers, mathematicians, and technicians who laid the groundwork for the first African - American astronauts through their involvement in the U.S. space program in the 1950s and 1960s.»

No, the Tea Party will support the space program only if we tether our efforts to an arbitrary timeframe, a simplistic goal, and a meaningless patriotic gesture: We will put an American on Callisto by 2023, and he will plant a flag made of guns!

More significantly, this is the beginning of the end not just for Hubble but for space shuttles — indeed for the entire American manned space program as currently configured.

NAMSS - Recruiting Minorities for STEM Careers by E. Francisco, 17 June 2005 Established in 1990 at Oregon State University, the Native Americans in Marine and Space Sciences (NAMSS) program recruits more Native Americans and other minorities into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers.

An American science officer in Paris, for example, typically spends much time dealing with cooperative space programs and other bilateral agreements.

With last year's shutdown of the space shuttle program, the only Americans going into space for the next few years will be the handful flying on Russian Soyuz rockets.

The Russia connection is China's latest attempt to revive its struggling 15 - year - old crewed program, says John Pike, space policy director at the Federation of American Scientists.

«Last month, we launched a new spacecraft as part of a re-energized space program that will send American astronauts to Mars,» Obama said tonight.

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/explorSpace Station, research in low - Earth orbit, NASA's commercial space programs and the future of American spaceflight, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/explorspace programs and the future of American spaceflight, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration

Many graduate programs, for example, are making concerted efforts to recruit students from historically marginalized groups, including African - Americans, Latinos, and students with disabilities, but this approach will only succeed if faculty members, administrators, and the scientific community at large also consider the environment that the students are being recruited into, and how to make those spaces truly inclusive arenas where a diverse group of scholars can thrive.

The American Geophysical Union is dedicated to advancing the Earth and space sciences for the benefit of humanity through its scholarly publications, conferences, and outreach programs.

I don't think the Americans have radars capable of ensuring such power at such an altitude [about 200 kilometers],» said Alexander Zakharov of the Russian Academy of Sciences Space Research Institute, where the Phobos equipment and research program were developed.

They must do so because, following the 2011 retirement of the space shuttle program, the only way for Americans to travel into space is aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

Boeing has selected a new subcontractor to develop eight parts for the CST - 100 space capsule as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), which outsources to private companies to return American astronauts into space after the retirement of the Space Shuspace capsule as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), which outsources to private companies to return American astronauts into space after the retirement of the Space Shuspace after the retirement of the Space ShuSpace Shuttle.

The future of America's space program depends on all Americans helping the residents of Houston.

WASHINGTON (February 1, 2018)-- Cal Dooley, President and CEO of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement in response to the U.S. House Science, Space, & Technology Committee's (SST) decision to hold a full committee hearing examining the International Agency for Research on Cancer's (IARC) Monographs Program and glyphosate review.

The program, aims to launch astronauts to the International Space Station using American vehicles around 2018.

The Mars Society offers you its full support in any effort you make to give the American people a purpose - driven space program that is really going somewhere.

Launching American astronauts on American vehicles from American soil has been a NASA goal since the Obama Administration terminated the space shuttle program in 2011.

Noticeably absent from the list are awards players like «Loving,» the Jeff Nichols film about America's interracial marriage ban, «Hidden Figures,» about African American women in the space program and the multi-generational drama «20th Century Women.»

N. Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne / Mescalero Apache), director of the Sundance Institute Native American and Indigenous Program, said, «Our Native Filmmakers Lab is a unique space for the next generation of Indigenous filmmakers to develop their own stories, especially amid calls for greater diversity in Hollywood.

Here, we right an historical wrong, looking back at the important — and overlooked — contributions that a group of three African - American women made to our nation's space program.

holds up the men who pioneered the United States space program as ultimate American archetypes.

N. Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne / Mescalero Apache), director of the Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program, said, «We welcome Erin and Shaandiin to the Sundance Institute family and look forward to watching them create and collaborate with the advisors in this unique space.

Chronicling pilot Chuck Yeager's breaking the sound barrier and the Mercury space program in which the first Americans were sent into space and to orbit the earth (the Russians beat them to it - in case you haven't been paying attention in your History classes), The Right Stuff is, well, fascinating stuff.

In Stonewall, a hunky football player boards a Greyhound in an all - American, cornfields - and - horn - rimmed - glasses picture of the mid-century Midwest, and arrives in a New York of Lou Reed characters, where coverage of the Apollo space program warbles out of every black - and - white TV set and J. Edgar Hoover haunts the...