Sentences with phrase «makes space rocket»

For this month's trend report we hitched a ride on board the Mollie Makes space rocket, and journeyed to the stars and back again in search of the best galactic finds across Folksy.

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Though their rockets didn't quite make it to suborbital space, the group did pull off dozens of successful launches.

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, is poised to make good on its promise to slash the cost of launching things into space.

Yet, SpaceX — the spaceflight company created by Telsa founder and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk — had imagined a way to drastically cut the cost of launching anything into space: simply make the rocket re-usable.

Until now, Blue Origin's rockets had been designed to go into suborbital space, which entails flying more than 62 miles above the earth's surface, but not high enough to make a full revolution.

The rocket itself is one of the most powerful rockets ever made and will be capable of carrying 140,000 pounds of cargo into space.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

It's what makes you get up and do it again when customers say no, when investors laugh at your idea or when your rocket fails to make it to space.

Musk aspires for his Falcon rocket to someday make space tourism and the colonization of Mars a realistic goal for mankind.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

Musk has won legions of vocal fans for his soaring vision and bold promises, from making electric vehicles mainstream to sending rockets into space as the CEO of SpaceX.

Relativity Space and its two founders - Tim and Jordan - have a plan to make rockets faster and cheaper than anyone else.

SpaceX's CEO, Elon Musk believes that reusability of rockets will not only reduce fuel costs, but also make Space Tourism a reality.

A large part of making space travel affordable is reducing launch costs, hence SpaceX's steadfast efforts to develop reusable rockets.

Made in Space's technology — dubbed the Additive Manufacturing Facility — is busy printing replacement parts and tools as the astronauts need them; a far better choice than launching replacement tools from Earth on future rockets, which could take more than several months to arrive.

The first X Prize, for the first private piloted vehicle to reach space, led to the development of SpaceShipOne, a rocket - powered plane that made two flights in two weeks in 2004 to win the $ 10 million prize.

Midway through the first half, Lokomotiv allowed Saul to have entirely too much space and he made them pay with a 30 - yard rocket for the opening goal.

Space rockets work in a similar way to the bottle, but instead of squirting water they burn fuel to make a powerful jet of hot gas.

The Children had great fun designing their own space rockets and space mice (cone shapes made from card).

Make your own Cardboard Space Rocket and read The Astronaut Instruction Manual.

Royal Canadian Bandit, has made good points... it's mostly a matter of efficiency and cost, an ICBM sits on a Saturn rocket... people seem to underestimate the cost of firing something into space!

It's the first time that the same rocket, a Falcon 9 that made a trip to the International Space Station last year, has been launched twice, CNN reports.

This isn't mere sci - fi speculation: In a nondescript warehouse in Webster, Texas, a forward - thinking scientist is developing a prototype rocket engine that could make space travel faster than ever before.

An Indian - made rocket called PSLV - C37 soared 310 miles into the Earth's ionosphere last February and launched 104 space satellites, spitting them out rapidly from both sides.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of private spaceflight company Blue Origin and founder and CEO of Amazon.com, announced today that Blue Origin will make Florida's Space Coast its home port for reusable rocket launches.

Chakrabarti's suborbital rocket flights were made possible through NASA funding, as was the bulk of recent progress in high - performance coronagraphs for space telescopes.

It was rocket science, literally, but the poor sap muddled through, eventually dispatching a three - man crew from a space center in Florida riding a rocket made of newly discovered aluminum at a speed of 12,000 yards per second.

But SpaceX, a private company whose Falcon rockets now resupply the International Space Station, recently announced ambitious plans to make that happen.

QB50 announced the CubeSats will launch from the International Space Station after being transported on rockets already making the journey.

While private space companies were making their move, NASA began testing the J - 2X rocket engine, one of the powerhouses behind the agency's Space Launch System that could drive the next stage of manned space exploraspace companies were making their move, NASA began testing the J - 2X rocket engine, one of the powerhouses behind the agency's Space Launch System that could drive the next stage of manned space exploraSpace Launch System that could drive the next stage of manned space exploraspace exploration.

DEFECTS in the US space shuttle's solid rocket motors, which grounded the entire shuttle fleet last month, were caused by a change in NASA procedures intended to make the shuttle safer.

Launch company SpaceX may even shoot two space tourists around the moon before NASA's giant rocket, the Space Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earlspace tourists around the moon before NASA's giant rocket, the Space Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earlSpace Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earliest.

The DC - X is a one - third scale model of a reusable rocket that could one day make space travel as routine as air travel is today.

The rockets launched from Baikonur became larger - than - life vehicles to the glorious future; they were supposed to conquer space and make the Soviet Union the most powerful country in the world.

The US company says that because the rocket can make repeated flights and needs little maintenance, it would slash the cost of transporting payloads into Earth orbit, making space flights more routine.

The tests are helping engineers working on the development of the SLS at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., ensure the rocket can adjust to the environment it faces as it makes its way to sSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., ensure the rocket can adjust to the environment it faces as it makes its way to spacespace.

One other speaker at the Colorado conference offered a more radical way of making the American launchers more competitive: using rockets for space tourism.

Big heavy missions are slower, but using NASA's Space Launch System rocket will make it faster and the arrival times will be sometime in the 2030s or after for an orbiter.

Hydrogen, being an extremely light element, makes up only about 5 % of the weight of a rocket fuel mixture, and can thus be imported from Earth; heavy insulation and some gelling of the mixture with methane (as the hydrogen will not be fed directly into an engine) will reduce in - space boil - off to negligible levels.

For example, the Constellation rockets are based on the Saturn Vs, making use of some design elements of the Space Shuttle program.

Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center tested NASA's first 3D printed rocket engine prototype part made of two different metal alloys through an innovative advanced manufacturing process.

The rocket would carry crews in the agency's Orion space capsule, which has made one uncrewed test flight.

As we build the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket to carry and shelter us in deep space, we'll continue to make the advances we need in life sciences to reduce risks for our exploSpace Launch System rocket to carry and shelter us in deep space, we'll continue to make the advances we need in life sciences to reduce risks for our explospace, we'll continue to make the advances we need in life sciences to reduce risks for our explorers.

Many of the tools and gadgets sent to space on rockets are made from strong materials.

Mel Gibson makes a belated appearance as a Bond - type villain, a weapons manufacturer who plans to initiate a global war after first launching a rocket filled with a selected lucky few into space who will return once the rest of us have destroyed ourselves.

This not only severely limits creativity — as every dome must always contains the exact same configuration every time — but it also makes no sense; we're able to send a space rocket to Mars and terraform its atmosphere, but commuting 50 steps to another dome is an insurmountable endeavour.

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Examples include Algodoo, a platform where students can design, make, and test Rube Goldberg — style contraptions, and Kerbal Space Program — available to schools as KerbalEdu — a virtual rocket launcher game where students can mess around and experiment with space flight missSpace Program — available to schools as KerbalEdu — a virtual rocket launcher game where students can mess around and experiment with space flight missspace flight missions.

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The modern world has proven just how great the appeal for more advanced games fit for the young minds of today has become, the old shovelware nonsense of the past has been surpassed by fun, entertaining, and thoroughly educational games like space tactics game FTL, rocket science themed masterpiece Kerbal Space Program, and even the popularity of, while darker and more advanced (and for older children) than the other two, the insane popularity of the horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy's and its habit of making the players work and dig for its story elements which have created communities of amateur slespace tactics game FTL, rocket science themed masterpiece Kerbal Space Program, and even the popularity of, while darker and more advanced (and for older children) than the other two, the insane popularity of the horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy's and its habit of making the players work and dig for its story elements which have created communities of amateur sleSpace Program, and even the popularity of, while darker and more advanced (and for older children) than the other two, the insane popularity of the horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy's and its habit of making the players work and dig for its story elements which have created communities of amateur sleuths.