Sentences with phrase «u.s. space program»

The entire system resists the brilliant minds of three African American females but their perseverance pays off and has a direct impact on the U.S. space program.

Smithsonian Magazine — Ten Enduring Myths About the U.S. Space Program — Mark Strauss — Please don't read this if you're a conspiracy theorist; it's Friday: go have some collusive fun instead.

Early in the U.S. space program it was discovered that women could withstand the stress of G - forces (acceleration) better than men.

Performed by Doug Jones («The Bye Bye Man») underneath all the prosthetics, this monster is an amphibian humanoid known as the Asset, captured by scientists from the Amazon (the one in South America) to help with the U.S. space program.

The U.S. space program may be over, but Prabal Gurung reminds us there are still many fashion frontiers yet to be discovered.

Convention highlights included a series of public debates on key issues and challenges facing Mars exploration and the future of the U.S. space program, as well as the final face - off of university student teams presenting designs for the Mars Society's International Gemini Mars competition.

The U.S. space program in astronomy is generally vigorous and strong.

Fight for Space is a documentary film that explores the history of the U.S. Space Program, the NASA budget, and the future.

A strong advocate of Mars exploration and a human mission to the Red Planet, Rep. Edwards will discuss the future of the U.S. space program and the need for Congress to increase NASA's budget, including funding for a humans - to - Mars program.

Based on the design of the Constellation program's Ares V rocket, the SLS aims to return a heavy - lift capability to the U.S. space program that was lost following the last flight of the Saturn V rocket in 1973.

On space issues, for example, AAAS physicists are less inclined than either engineers or all AAAS members to consider astronauts essential to the future of the U.S. space program.

And by a 12 - point margin, the public is more likely to say that astronauts are essential for the future of the U.S. space program.

I have heard a White House official tout a concept for large - scale industrialization of the moon as «a phenomenally inspiring long - term vision» for the U.S. space program.

Women (52 %) are less inclined than are men (66 %) to say astronauts are essential in the future of the U.S. space program.

But the U.S. space program has produced some other examples of engineering that keep on ticking...

First, Claudia Alexander of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, reviewed We Could Not Fail, which «presents the biographies of 10 African - American engineers, mathematicians, and technicians who laid the groundwork for the first African - American astronauts through their involvement in the U.S. space program in the 1950s and 1960s.»

Tellingly, the U.S. space program is abandoning spaceplanes and going back to Apollo - style rockets.

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

(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.)

As biographer Robert Weir details in Peace, Justice, Care of Earth, McConnell was inspired by the images coming from the U.S. space program.

The U.S. space program had a major setback in 1967, as a flash fire during a test killed Apollo astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffey.

Failure now would put thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at risk, and SpaceX has become crucial not just to the U.S. space program but also to countries and companies around the world hoping to put up satellites.

Not exact matches

Indie.Bio's model is simple: All participants in the U.S. program (there is another in Ireland) receive $ 200,000 in seed funding, plus $ 50,000 in lab space and supplies, as well as mentorship.

U.S. regulatory scrutiny of the Lattice deal grew after Reuters reported in late November that Canyon Bridge, based in Palo Alto, California, was funded partly by cash coming from China's central government and had indirect links to its space program.

The U.S. Air Force announced new principles and reforms to its space programs Tuesday, largely to increase speed and defensive capabilities

U.S. regulatory scrutiny grew after Reuters reported in November that Canyon Bridge was funded partly by cash from China's central government and had indirect links to its space program.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program allows private firms SpaceX and Boeing to bring U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

The Space Constellation Program, which was conceived by former U.S. President George W. Bush, aimed at returning humans to the moon after the initial Apollo mission in the 1960s and 1970s.

The space race was in high gear, with the USSR landing a vehicle on the moon and the U.S. successfully completing its Gemini program — the precursor to the Apollo moon landing missions.

Featuring the official Space Shuttle program seal, the NASA logo patch, and the U.S. flag this jacket is an authentic replica of the NASA Space Shuttle astronaut flight jackets.

He greeted Bush's speech with relief: «It wasn't quite Kennedyesque, but the president said space exploration is important for humankind and the U.S., and that's something we in the space program have been trying to get a president to say for a long time.»

In 2010, Boeing engineer Dongfan Chung — a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in China and grew up in Taiwan — was sentenced to 16 years in prison for stealing trade secrets connected to the U.S. Space Shuttle program and Delta IV rocket on behalf of mainland China.

It will also serve as a celestial billboard, says Joan Johnson - Freese, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and an expert on the Chinese space program.

In 2011 NASA ended the space shuttle program and announced an unpopular plan to pay Russia to transport U.S. astronauts into space.

Congress has been pressing the U.S. national security community to turn its attentions to the role of offensive rather than defensive capabilities, even dictating that most of the fiscal year 2015 funding for the Pentagon's Space Security and Defense Program go toward «development of offensive space control and active defense strategies and capabilities.&rSpace Security and Defense Program go toward «development of offensive space control and active defense strategies and capabilities.&rspace control and active defense strategies and capabilities.»

Three U.S. Apollo astronauts died in a launchpad fire in 1967, the Soviet Soyuz program had two fatal accidents, and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters together killed 14 people.

In response to these possible threats, the Obama administration has budgeted at least $ 5 billion to be spent over the next five years to enhance both the defensive and offensive capabilities of the U.S. military space program.

So far, more than 30,000 students have had the experience of designing experiments for microgravity through the SSEP program, which is part of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally.

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.

Just as China's naval aircraft carrier was launched soon after they criticized the U.S. for spending too much on defense, undertaking the Tiangong / Shenzhou 8 mission at about the same time as the U.S. space shuttle program ends «is a powerful political signal that China is ascendant, and the U.S. is descending,» Cheng said.

The Obama Administration should use the U.S. civil space program to help meet a broader array of national goals, says a report released today by the National Academies» National Research Council.

The much - ballyhooed report on the future of the U.S. human space program was submitted today to the White House.

When Atlantis came back to Earth last July, marking the end of the U.S. space shuttle program, many lamented the passing of NASA's big - dreams era.

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.

When the Bush Administration decided to include the crewed moon mission as one of NASA's primary objectives, the goal was to inspire excitement and innovation, said Lester Lyles, a retired U.S. Air Force general who served on NASA's Augustine Commission last year, which was arranged to offer advice on the space program to Obama.

As NASA gets to work on the Constellation Program — the space agency's next not - so - small - step for mankind that hopes to put U.S. astronauts back on the moon by 2020 — the European Space Agency (ESA) has set its sights on learning more about our own plspace agency's next not - so - small - step for mankind that hopes to put U.S. astronauts back on the moon by 2020 — the European Space Agency (ESA) has set its sights on learning more about our own plSpace Agency (ESA) has set its sights on learning more about our own planet.

CubeSats offer a number of challenges, says Brian Weeden, a former officer in the U.S. Air Force with a focus on space security and current director of program planning for the Secure World Foundation.

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.

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.»

The White House has bleaker plans for WFIRST, which the U.S. space science community ranked as the highest priority for NASA's astrophysics program in the 2010 Decadal Survey.