Sentences with phrase «u.s. space shuttle program»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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.»

NASA's Commercial Crew Program will deliver U.S. astronauts into low - Earth orbit, from U.S. soil, and aboard a U.S. spacecraft, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era.