Sentences with phrase «space shuttle flight in»

The mice spent time orbiting Earth on the final space shuttle flight in 2011.

During her last Space Shuttle flight in 1998, she served as payload commander, overseeing 23 science and technology experiments, as well as supervising the delivery of 4000 kg of equipment, hardware, and water destined for the Russian MIR space station.

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For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer.

Russian flights are now the only way to get to the ISS since the United States retired its space shuttle in 2011.

For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer — an artifact that ultimately helped explain how the deadly incident happened.

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He has clocked more than 45 days in space on four shuttle flights, three of them focused on astronomy.

Soon after the space shuttle atlantis launched a new observatory into orbit in 1991, Gerald Fishman of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center realized that something very strange was goinspace shuttle atlantis launched a new observatory into orbit in 1991, Gerald Fishman of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center realized that something very strange was goinSpace Flight Center realized that something very strange was going on.

Two of the space shuttle's 123 flights have ended in fatal catastrophe; the Columbia disaster happened just a year after the previous Hubble repair mission.

Now a curious calm has fallen on these formidable beasts — the engines from the recently retired space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour — as they await a new role in human space flight.

The skull went first to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's PaleoLab in Pittsburgh, then made a brief trip to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuspace shuttle.

The craft was the first continuously occupied outpost in space and gave researchers the means to conduct experiments not for just a week or two, the typical length of a space - shuttle flight, but for months on end.

Most of NASA's 2012 reductions stem from the retirement of the space - shuttle fleet, which will see its final two budgeted flights, plus an additional flight that has been authorized by Congress but not yet funded in 2011.

The spacewalk had been scheduled to test techniques for a far more difficult service call: repairing the Hubble Space Telescope during a shuttle flight in December.

With a weightless Oscar floating in front of him, shuttle commander Charles Bolden described Lucas as «an explorer inhis own right», and added: «The imagination and ingenuitythat have turned dreams into the reality of space flight are no different than those which turn ideas and inspiration into motion pictures.»

When Atlantis launched in 1985, many hoped the shuttle fleet would usher in a new era of safe space flight.

And with the flight of Apollo 17 in 1972, the U.S. put aside its plans for a permanent base on the Moon, deciding to rely instead on unmanned spacraft and the fleet of space shuttles for the future.

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Though Enterprise never reached space, its test flights through the atmosphere in the late 1970s helped pave the way for the rest of the shuttles.

Chris Ferguson, commander of the final space shuttle flight, virtually returns to space in the Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 simulspace shuttle flight, virtually returns to space in the Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 simulspace in the Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 simulSpace Transportation (CST)-100 simulator.

A series of corrective mirrors were fixed to the telescope in an unprecedented series of five spacewalks in a single space shuttle flight.

His first flight was aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1999 (STS - 103) on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Selected as an astronaut by NASA in January 1990, Wisoff is a veteran of four space shuttle flights.

And it stressed the scientific value of manned space flight, with each Shuttle mission now bespangled in a dazzling assortment of scientific experiments, like so many talismans against budget reduction.

In the newer book, the team forms at a much younger age, with a teleportation experiment being the impetus of their powers, rather than a botched space shuttle flight.

Garrett Reisman — Human Space Flight Past and Present: Lessons Learned About Inspiration and Determination Selected by NASA as a mission specialist astronaut in 1998, Garrett Reisman's first mission was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which brought him to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 95 - day mission.

Elinor Smith took her first flight at age 6, became a licensed pilot at 16, was voted «Best Woman Pilot in America» over the likes of Amelia Earhart, went on to be a test pilot, and, at age 89, «flew» NASA's space - shuttle simulator.

They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS: Twenty years of experience with the Boeing Company in Boeing Commercial Airplanes, the International Space Station, and the Space Shuttle programs have produced enhancements to flight safety and have added value to products and services.

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You spent a total of 54 days in space during four space shuttle missions, including serving as commander of Endeavour's last flight.