Sentences with phrase «future spaceflight»

The Museum's existing Charles Simonyi Space Gallery on the West Campus will continue with the story of the space shuttle, plus the latest in current and future spaceflight.

Future spaceflight experiments that examine a variety of other bacterial species under differing growth conditions could help explain changes in bacterial growth and virulence that could significantly affect people living in space.

«Future spaceflight missions could involve four to six crew members living in a confined space for an extended period of time, with limited communication.

The basic research conducted in the ISS lab also has a direct practical benefit: «The experiment provides key data that enables us to gauge the risk on future spaceflights more effectively,» says Ullrich.

Not exact matches

While the research is key to planning for future long - duration spaceflights, such as journeys to Mars or deep space, it also can help understand blood vessel function in older patients or patients with heart failure.

DISCOVER spoke to Burt Rutan about his inspiration for SpaceShipOne, what SpaceShipTwo passengers can expect to get for their money, why the future of spaceflight doesn't belong to NASA — and the aftermath of a recent explosion at one of Rutan's test facilities during a test of rocket motor components that killed three people and severely injured three others.

Now that it is in place, I think Kennedy is it for the foreseeable future in terms of manned spaceflight in the U.S..

During spaceflights, and in future habitats on the Moon or Mars, humans are or will be exposed to a condition of «microgravity,» in other words to a gravitational field much smaller compared to that present on Earth.

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.

It illustrates what people are really talking about when they discuss the future of NASA: the majestic promise of spaceflight, and who gets to fulfill it.

[Future Visions of Human Spaceflight]

The Augustine committee has been asked to present an array of options in its final report, rather than endorse a single plan for NASA's future human spaceflight activities.

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

In a discovery with implications for long - term spaceflight and future missions to Mars, a researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has found that mice flown aboard the space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth with early signs of liver disease.

To find out more about the origin and future of the Perseids, we spoke to Bill Cooke, the Meteoroid Environment Office lead at the NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala. [An edited transcript of the interview follows.]

Kring says that even given the uncertainties in the future of manned spaceflight in the U.S., the lunar orbiter is a mission whose time has come.

How do microbes respond to spaceflight and relocation, and do genetic changes occur in the organisms that could be passed to future generations?

One aftereffect of 9/11 continues to shape the future of NASA and human spaceflight, Johnson - Freese said.

The Project Mercury astronaut data can be of interest to operators of future commercial space flights as the short duration of the Mercury missions is similar to that of planned future tourist spaceflight opportunities.

That explains why the Obama administration chose Augustine to head a commission on the future of NASA's human spaceflight program — and why the space agency was so shaken by his conclusion.

Terminating the program early in 2016, as currently scheduled, would help release NASA from its fiscal straitjacket, but it would «significantly impair U.S. ability to develop and lead future international spaceflight partnerships» while wasting 25 years of investment, Augustine's group warns.

SpaceX has unveiled what it hopes will be the future of manned, commercial spaceflight: The seven - seater Dragon V2 spaceship.

The future of the human spaceflight program was the focus of the hearing, although the rest of NASA's portfolio (aeronautics, space technology, earth and space science) was also discussed.

A common theme was the Obama Administration's FY2013 budget request for the future of the human spaceflight program and what many see as a competition between commercial crew services to the International Space Station (ISS) and a NASA - developed system to take astronauts further into the solar system.

The all - inclusive annual ASE Planetary Congress, held in a different host country each year, has a long history as the premier forum for astronauts and cosmonauts from all spacefaring nations to meet and exchange information about their respective space agencies, human spaceflight operations and future plans for exploration beyond low earth orbit.

While clearly a concern of these two authorization committees, the future of the human spaceflight program obviously was center stage.

During her 2008 campaign Clinton said she was «committed to a space exploration program that involves robust human spaceflight to complete the Space Station and later human missions, expanded robotic spaceflight probes of our solar system leading to future human exploration, and enhanced space science activities.»

Rather, it sees a future for this design in all aspects of private spaceflight, which could mean transporting passengers who don't have extensive training.

For her part, Magnus's main point was that the United States needs a comprehensive national space strategy upon which which it can make decisions about the best roles for the U.S. government, international partners, and the private sector in future human spaceflight.

While seedlings from Plant Gravity Perception will not wind up on astronauts» plates, their studied growth furthers our knowledge of perceptual thresholds and makes selecting appropriate garden greens likely to thrive in space easier for future long duration spaceflight, including exploration missions beyond low - Earth orbit.

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The founding Executive Director of the Planetary Society has just written «Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars,» an optimistic view of humanity's future in the solar system and beyond.

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

Virgin Galactic is looking to work with Lloyd's to insure the spaceflights they plan to offer in the fairly new future.

There's a rich discussion of her pioneering achievements under way on Twitter, where the science and space journalist Miles O'Brien said «she is to the shuttle era what Neil Armstrong is to Apollo» and noted her participation on NASA panels on the destruction of the Challenger and Columbia shuttles and the future of human spaceflight.