Sentences with phrase «private spacecraft»

The accident occurred at the Mojave Desert spaceport that launched Scaled Composites» SpaceShipOne, the first — and so far only — private spacecraft.

The company even created the hybrid rocket system that put the first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, into outer space in 2004.

NASA administrator Charles Bolden has said that private spacecraft developers are the faces of the new frontier.

Water on Mercury, First Private Spacecraft Docks with ISS, Curiosity on Mars, Higgs Discovery

The current boom in private spacecraft designs (for example) shows the kind of inventiveness and flexibility that NASA could have practiced or at least funded for the past few decades if not for the shuttle.

Not exact matches

Moon Express would become the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon if successful.»

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.

NASA is preparing astronauts for the next manned mission to the International Space Station onboard the private CST - 100 Starliner spacecraft by Boeing.

Shortly thereafter, SpaceX frontman Elon Musk announced that the private rocket company would be scrapping plans for their Martian spacecraft, Red Dragon.

In 2004, SpaceShipOne was the first — and so far only — private manned spacecraft to fly above Earth's atmosphere in a suborbital arc.

Late last year his company, SpaceX, became the first private firm to successfully recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit, another big advance in its long - term bid to be the first company to carry astronauts to the ISS.

There are a number of companies trying to build commercial suborbital spacecraft, but the current leader is Virgin Galactic, which will use a vehicle built by Burt Rutan, the designer of the Ansari X Prize — winning SpaceShipOne, the only private manned spacecraft thus far to have left the atmosphere.

The Google Lunar X Prize is offering $ 20 million to the first private team to land a spacecraft on the moon, make it travel 500 metres and send back video by the end of 2015.

In the absence of the shuttles, NASA will rely on Russian spacecraft to carry U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station, until private American spacecraft are ready to take over the job.

The first private company to offer regular trips to the moon says it will sell sponsorship rights for its spacecraft to cover equipment costs.

Two spacecraft, one public and one private, linked in orbit today when SpaceX's Dragon was attached to the International Space Station.

Instead, the new plan would put billions towards helping private companies develop their own rockets and spacecraft, which could then serve as taxis to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

Private companies can lodge bids with satellite owners for the right to buy and de-orbit their spacecraft.

A government - private industry commission examining the loss of Beagle 2 did not find a single cause for the failure, which is common in spacecraft investigations.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Hopes NASA's private partners on the agency's Commercial Crew Program would launch crewed spacecraft by the end of this year (2018) have been dashed.

Construction of the Viking spacecraft was done primarily by the private company Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin).

As it is currently envisioned, these private companies will handle the responsibility of sending crews to low - Earth - orbit as SLS and the Orion spacecraft focus on missions beyond the orbit of Earth.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which will employ private contractors to transport astronauts to the International Space Station, has taken a step closer to crewed flights as the two prime contractors conduct the latest round of tests of their spacecraft parachute systems.

The Daniel Craig incarnation of Bond has mercifully turned its back on the era of megalomaniacs with private armies and spacecraft trying to conquer the world from inside extensively refurbished volcanoes, though the villain in Skyfall (Javier Bardem's camp and lispy Silva) does posess a small, albeit hopelessly derelict, island somewhere in the South China Sea.

For example, NASA, with President Obama's approval, set aside $ 6 billion to support private ventures that will compete to build and operate spacecraft, with NASA overseeing quality assurance and safety.

At present, no space agency or private spaceflight outfit has anything resembling a Mars - suitable spacecraft.