Sentences with phrase «u.s. human spaceflight»

Viewing a lack of direction in the U.S. human spaceflight program, the Mars Society launched the International Gemini Mars Design Competition in August 2015 in an effort to provide focus and encourage a serious humans - to - Mars initiative.

We were spurred into action when the Augustine commission, a blue - ribbon panel that President Barack Obama set up earlier that year to review the space shuttle and its intended successor, reported that «the U.S. human spaceflight program appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory.»

Not exact matches

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.

Craig Covault, an aerospace journalist who has «covered every U.S. space launch since Apollo,» according to a statement from the book's publisher, wrote an essay about Launch Complexes 40 and 41, two locations that had great significance in the early days of human spaceflight and that have been repurposed for new phases of human spaceflight.

The report, Pathways to Exploration — Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (Human Space Exploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).

For her part, Magnus's main point was that the United States needs a comprehensive national space strategy upon which which it can make decisions about the best roles for the U.S. government, international partners, and the private sector in future human spaceflight.

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.