Sentences with phrase «space shuttle which»

Steve: Why don't we discuss a few these things like, for example, the space shuttle which is ending.

From Mama Smiles there is this amazing Cardboard Space Shuttle which would be the perfect Rocket Racing Car to go with the book including the lights in the dashboard.

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The 22 - lb suit is pretty similar to the space shuttle flight suit, though it's used to protect people who fly inside Russia's Soyuz spacecraft (which NASA pays an increasingly hefty sum to use for its own astronauts» travel to and from the space station).

Look at our space shuttle program, which lost two of its four primary vehicles, and two full crews, in the pursuit of science.

Orion is part of NASA's follow - up program to the now - retired space shuttles that will allow astronauts to travel beyond the International Space Station, which flies about 260 miles (420 km) above Espace shuttles that will allow astronauts to travel beyond the International Space Station, which flies about 260 miles (420 km) above ESpace Station, which flies about 260 miles (420 km) above Earth.

For example, a space rocket designer might want to consider the risk of a one - time failure in a specific reusable rocket booster seal, which was the cause of the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986.

In 2008, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft won the NASA contract to provide a commercial replacement for the cargo transport function of the Space Shuttle, which retired in 2011.

Though plagued by cost overruns, and a ghastly blunder in manufacturing the main mirror that had to be corrected by a Space Shuttle mission in December 1993 (which, essentially, put corrective eyeglasses on the telescope), the....

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We went to the park, went to «coffee» each day, had a play date with a friend a few months younger than him (which he LOVED — someone who played WITH him, not telling him what to do every minute like his sister does), watched a movie of his choosing, ate what he asked for at dinner, built space stations and launch pads out of Legos for his Space Shuttle, and read lots of books togespace stations and launch pads out of Legos for his Space Shuttle, and read lots of books togeSpace Shuttle, and read lots of books together.

She thought about working for NASA like her father, even going so far as to design a fruit - fly experiment for the space shuttle's Get - Away Special program, which allowed schools, clubs, and professional societies to design small experiments to be flown to space.

Where the numbers really pile up is in the operation of Kennedy Space Center, which includes pumping 300,000 gallons of water to protect the shuttle from launch vibrations, moving the rockets, and keeping hundreds of tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen cool.

That artwork, which Garriott brought home 12 days later, along with six more pieces he created on board the ISS, was on display recently on Manhattan's Lower East Side as part of an exhibit called Celestial Matters, organized to benefit a group of learning centers created in memory of space shuttle Challenger's tragic final mission.

If Alice and Bob are seated on two space shuttles moving in different directions, it is possible to set up a scenario in which they both flip quantum coins, but Alice says she flipped her coin before Bob, while Bob swears he tossed his coin first.

The space shuttle Endeavor cruised up for a rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, which allowed astronauts to perform some vital repairs and upgrspace shuttle Endeavor cruised up for a rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, which allowed astronauts to perform some vital repairs and upgrSpace Telescope in 1993, which allowed astronauts to perform some vital repairs and upgrades.

When he wrote, «Let us make recommendations to ensure that NASA officials deal in a world of reality,» and, «They must live in reality in comparing the costs and utility of the Shuttle to other methods of entering space,» he meant they were at the time not living in reality, which is generally the place engineers ought to live.

After refurbishing the complex and adding an additional Spacelab module, astronauts would have performed experiments in the space station (which was far more roomy than the space shuttle).

The space shuttle didn't fly until April 1981, however, which kept that option off the table, according to Wired.

The space shuttle program has just three launches before the orbiters are retired later this year or early in 2011, and Obama has proposed scrapping the shuttle program's successor, known as Constellation, which was first sketched out by President George W. Bush in 2004.

The news of the day was about plans for the next launch of the space shuttle, which at first glance seems a mark of high - tech modernity.

If you looked up on March 8, 2011, you might have a seen a bright streak across the sky as wastewater from the space shuttle Discovery was burned up in the atmosphere (which is acting as one huge incinerating toilet in this case).

Initially embodying the dream that space travel might become routine and that we could establish an orbital beachhead for ambitious exploration of the moon and beyond, the shuttle ultimately symbolized the cruel reality of space travel — one in which merely ferrying people and cargo to space's jumping - off point is staggeringly difficult, expensive, and dangerous.

Since the end of July, the AUV — which looks something like a space shuttle — has been helping the company hunt down the legendary delta - winged Avro Canada CF - 105 interceptor in the waters of Lake Ontario (see information box).

Even though 310 miles up is technically outer space, a few air molecules still float around — not enough to make the slightest difference to astronauts on a space shuttle or the space station, which orbit considerably lower, but sufficient to slow the GRACE satellites perceptibly.

In 1990, the shuttle Discovery deployed the Hubble Space Telescope, which has become an unparalleled window into the universe.

Researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke up during reentry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crew members.

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 tShuttle - Mir program, which put cosmonauts on the space shuttle and astronauts on Mir, paving the way for tshuttle and astronauts on Mir, paving the way for the ISS.

Galileo had been due to begin this journey sitting on the tip of a Centaur rocket stage, which would power it to Jupiter after it was hefted into space inside a space shuttle's cargo bay.

The space shuttle Atlantis, which is due to carry Europe's Columbus science laboratory to the station, was sidelined by problems with sensors in its fuel tank that are part of an emergency engine cut - off system.

For many people, the shuttle's recent missions, which were focused mainly on assembly of the International Space Station (ISS), had become routine.

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.

One of the major goals of the ongoing space shuttle mission — Endeavour's final visit to the International Space Station — was to bestow a 7.8 - ton parting gift: an automated particle detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS - 02, or, more colloquially, AMS), which was attached to the station yestespace shuttle mission — Endeavour's final visit to the International Space Station — was to bestow a 7.8 - ton parting gift: an automated particle detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS - 02, or, more colloquially, AMS), which was attached to the station yesteSpace Station — was to bestow a 7.8 - ton parting gift: an automated particle detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS - 02, or, more colloquially, AMS), which was attached to the station yesterday.

Most notable is his forthright account of NASA's failure to protect the crew of the space shuttle Challenger, which blew up in 1986 because of a design defect in the O - rings that sealed sections of the ship's solid - fuel boosters.

From 1981 through 2011, NASA launched 135 space shuttles from Kennedy Space Center, which is surrounded by one of Florida's last protected saltwater ecosysspace shuttles from Kennedy Space Center, which is surrounded by one of Florida's last protected saltwater ecosysSpace Center, which is surrounded by one of Florida's last protected saltwater ecosystems.

NASA's Spacelab — a module which fits inside the shuttle's payload bay — was launched in 1991 to examine how people can live and work effectively in space.

To do this, the programme includes a design for the Orion crew capsule with up to six seats, the Altair lunar lander, and a new booster system called Ares, which uses components from both the Apollo - era Saturn rocket and the space shuttle.

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.

The shape of the CRV is taken from the X-24 lifting body, which flew in the early 1970s during development of the space shuttle.

Obama proposed jettisoning much of the Constellation program, which Bush set up to build rockets and Apollo - like capsules to replace the space shuttle, and instead paying private companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch astronauts into orbit.

So it was with President George W. Bush's vision for NASA in 2004, which sought to rekindle the agency's exploratory spirit after the space shuttle Columbia disaster.

The only real winner among science agencies was NASA, which received a 4.5 percent hike — $ 16.1 billion — to be spread thin over such big - money projects as resuming the shuttle, completing the International Space Station, and sending humans to Mars.

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.»

This practice was continued for more than a year, through the ill - fated STS - 107 flight of the space shuttle Columbia, which broke apart during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003.

Within the human exploration program, which takes up roughly a quarter of NASA's overall budget, the agency continues to take a two - pronged approach to developing rockets that would return astronauts to space after the retirement of the Space Shuspace after the retirement of the Space ShuSpace Shuttle.

Nimoy also contributed to science - themed projects, such as the 1994 IMAX documentary Destiny in Space, which contained footage from nine Space Shuttle missions.

It was in 1967 that launch pad 39A became the premier spot from which to send humans into space, whether to the moon atop a colossal Saturn V rocket, or into low Earth orbit aboard the space shuttle.

The blue ovals (pictured above left) are residue from the main engines of the space shuttle launch vehicle, which used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (pictured below).

Re-use, recycle The biggest pieces of hardware that NASA will hang onto are the space shuttle main engines, which sit near the orbiters» tails.

The U.S. continued to launch animals for scientific experiments but increasingly concentrated on smaller creatures such as mice and insects, which are easier to care for and take up much less space (although two squirrel monkeys did ride on the space shuttle Challenger's STS -51-B mission in April - May 1985.)

University officials first learned of the duplications in 2005, and they eventually led to an investigation by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), which funded some of Smith's work, including experiments on board the U.S. space shuttles.