Sentences with phrase «russian space program»

On this electrifying exploration of the Russian Space Program guests will tour Star City, Russia's premier cosmonaut training facility, where they can participate in optional cosmonaut training.

They've also helped out with the Cuban Missile Crisis, joined the Russian space program and discovered a rare archaeological find.

I love the Russian space program and the Women's gymnastics teams through the years.

Rockets used in the Russian space program are transported by train to the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

See www.russianspaceweb.com for the history of the Russian space program as well as recent news.

I'm told you collect artifacts from the Russian space program.

But Anatoly Zak, an expert on the Russian space program who runs russianspaceweb.com, thinks those projections are a bit inflated.

Originally developed in the 1960's as part of the Russian space program, the science of heart rate variability has since found broad application in cardiac medicine.

That's when she decided to sell a prototype she'd developed after a trip home to India, a sponge - like smart fabric — inspired by materials used in the Russian space program — that helps alleviate heat stress in super-hot climates.

Not exact matches

Obama referenced America's race to one - up the Russians in space exploration during the 50s and 60s: «We built a space program almost overnight,» he said, «and twelve years later, we were walking on the moon.»

My personal experience working with Russians in the space program, and my other friends in Russia, even some of them that had nothing to do with the space program, they've always been very, very generous people.

Since the Space Shuttle program was cancelled, NASA has had to rely on Russian rockets to get astronauts into space, something that is very costly for NASA at a whopping $ 80 per Space Shuttle program was cancelled, NASA has had to rely on Russian rockets to get astronauts into space, something that is very costly for NASA at a whopping $ 80 per space, something that is very costly for NASA at a whopping $ 80 per seat.

(NASA does rely on Russian rocket launches to service the space station, but the space station is a pork barrel project, not an essential part of the U.S. space program.)

June 17, 1992 Months after Krikalev's return, President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin met in Washington, D.C., and finalized the Shuttle - Mir program, which put cosmonauts on the space shuttle and astronauts on Mir, paving the way for the ISS.

BOR is a Russian acronym for unpiloted orbital rocket plane; the Russians built the experimental craft in response to the then - new U.S. space shuttle program.

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.

Ironically, the humble Russian - built Soyuz spacecraft, operational since the»60s, outlasted both programs and is currently the only ride for U.S. and Russian astronauts to reach the International Space Station.

Looking back at it, [that program] meant that the money that could have been used to develop the shuttle replacement and do some other research ended up going to the Russians to finish the space station, then they broke the agreement and didn't pay for what they agreed on.

«Better to ask Korolyov,» he gruffly responds in Russian when asked, via a translator, why the head of the Soviet space program, chief designer Sergey Korolyov, had personally directed him to take charge of Sputnik.

The Russian program continues despite diminished funding and a growing indifference toward space exploration on the part of the government.

As the Shuttle - Mir program draws to a close, a veteran NASA astronaut reflects on her mission on board the Russian spacecraft and the implications for the International Space Station

Train tracks crisscross between towering light scaffolds at the desert - based Baikonur cosmodrome, which has served as the central launch complex for the Soviet (now Russian) space program since its inception in the 1950s.

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.

Since the end of the Space Shuttle program, NASA astronauts and those of its international partners have launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the ISS aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft — at a cost of some $ 70 million or more per seat.

Brooks, who represents Marshall Space Flight Center, contended that more money is needed to support human exploration because, since the end of the space shuttle program, America has had to «hitch a ride» with the Russians to the International Space Station (ISS) and thus lost its preeminSpace Flight Center, contended that more money is needed to support human exploration because, since the end of the space shuttle program, America has had to «hitch a ride» with the Russians to the International Space Station (ISS) and thus lost its preeminspace shuttle program, America has had to «hitch a ride» with the Russians to the International Space Station (ISS) and thus lost its preeminSpace Station (ISS) and thus lost its preeminence.

Both companies said they will be ready by the end of 2017, but CBS News adds that NASA still plans to use one seat on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft for the duration of the space station program and for Russians to fly on the U.S. systems.

In his unformed mind, he can do with it what he wants, so he revises the history of the NASA Space Program, starting with Kennedy and enrolling the likes of Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Richard Nixon, to create a world in which the race to the moon was secretly a race with the Russians to bring Sentinel Prime (voiced by Leonard Nimoy) back to Earth.

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.

From Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's ground - breaking theoretical work in 1903 to NASA's Space Shuttle program nearly 100 years later, the drive to explore continues to push the limits of science and ingenuity.

Mr. Khata further added, «Ingram is a true leader in the content distribution space, and we are pleased to be a part of their Global Connect program for the Russian and former Soviet Union markets.»

One that takes about SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Spacesport City, startups, Russian space agency and what European programs are doing.

As a commercially - rated pilot, with an intense interest in the space program and its history, I would have loved to spend the evening talking about their careers as well as their time spent on the Russian Mir Space Station and the International Space Staspace program and its history, I would have loved to spend the evening talking about their careers as well as their time spent on the Russian Mir Space Station and the International Space StaSpace Station and the International Space StaSpace Station.

It has been a massive undertaking to localize Kerbal Space Program in four more languages: Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

By the mid-1930s, the Soviet space program was moribund and the Russian avant - garde was squelched, forcibly replaced by Socialist Realism.