Sentences with phrase «u.s. human space flight»

Times have changed, says Norman Augustine, the retired aerospace executive who is chairing a blue - ribbon panel examining alternative futures for the U.S. human space flight effort.

The president chose the new direction for the U.S. human space flight program Wednesday at a White House meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, according to officials familiar with the discussion.

That's the verdict of a blue - ribbon panel which today released its full report on the future of the U.S. human space flight effort.

That gibe earned laughs from the crowd but drew a rebuke from retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles, a member of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee (aka the Augustine Commission), the group that recently advised Obama on NASA's options for manned spaceflight.

Not exact matches

Norman Augustine, who is chairing a blue - ribbon panel examining alternative futures for the U.S. human space - flight effort, hinted last week that the panel might shy away from advocating an expensive human mission to the moon, Mars, or an asteroid.

This week includes the 57th anniversary of the first human spaceflight — Yuri Gagarin's one - orbit ride aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and the 37th anniversary of the first U.S. space shuttle flight — STS - 1 on April 12, 1981, with John Young and Bob Crippen at the controls.