Sentences with phrase «us space flight»

Micra, a device which manufacturer and medical device giant Medtronic calls the world's smallest pacemaker (it's a one - inch long product that doesn't contain any leads), is being sent to the final frontier to examine how it's affected by high radiation and low temperatures during space flight.

Through his own initiatives, he's working to prolong human life (Human Longevity), commercialize space flight (Space Adventures), and mine asteroids (Planetary Resources).

The Saturn V was principally designed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, while numerous subsystems were developed by subcontractors.

SpaceShipOne itself suffered several such problems in its three space flights, including the loss of its navigation system, a sudden lurch that carried the ship some 30 miles off course, the buckling of the aircraft's skin from the rocket motor's heat, and an uncontrolled wobble that spun the craft around at high speed some 20 times before pilot Melvill — he flew the first prize - winning flight, Binnie the second — stilled it, possibly just in time to prevent a fatal tumble.

That's great news for Kelly, NASA, and the future of manned space flight, but it's also interesting for the rest of us stuck here on earth amid the usual small hassles and daily annoyances of a planet - bound existence.

Gionta had little idea at the time that Rutan was thinking about the ultimate in high - altitude aviation: manned space flight.

From 1960 to 1962, the Marshall Space Flight Center began designing the rockets that would eventually be used by the Apollo Program.

His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine — and turn a big profit.

The Air Force said that Thursday's launch was the X-37B program's fifth space flight and the first to be sent aloft on a rocket by Elon Musk's private space cargo company SpaceX.

Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk is not averse to burgeoning technology like space flight and driverless cars.

Odd that there wasn't a chorus about how government, in the form of NASA, was unable to handle space flight back then, or even back when there were other disasters and failures in our spaceflight program.

As Richard Branson prepares to launch the first - ever commercial space flights, here's a look at the famous faces who will be on board.

He also uses his billions for other things, like funding Blue Origin, his space flight company, and to support projects like the 10,000 year clock being built inside a mountain on his property in Texas.

«This is going to be ultimately a huge revolution in space flight,» Musk said during a webcast from the launch control center at Cape Canaveral immediately after the Falcon 9's autonomous touchdown.

The Hollywood director - producer of The Usual Suspects, Jack the Giant Slayer and the X-Men films has nabbed a seat on an upcoming spacing flight.

Northrop Grumman is buying Orbital ATK, a specialist in rocket engines and space flight technologies, for $ 7.8 billion (plus $ 1.4 billion in debt).

So private space exploration, private space flight is not something new, but the way we're doing it, managing it, is different.

Aside from the Marshall Space Flight Center, which employs around 6,000 people and has an annual budget of $ 2.5 billion, Hunstville is also home to the Redstone Arsental, a major army base that has offices for more than 60 federal agencies on its «campus.»

Still, while other companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are planning much of their business around space flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space Station.

When Elon Musk shares his vision for space flight or an electric car; or Steve Jobs shuns a CD - happy world for an iPod / iTunes business plan, or Jeff Bezos creates an online book store that will be «the world's most consumer - centric company, where customers can come to find anything they want to buy online,» they are honoring their epiphanies.

We all know that space flights don't always go as expected, so it's anyone's guess whether this trip will happen on schedule or be delayed.

Almost certainly meant to appeal to the newfound Bitcoin millionaires out there, Virgin Galactic now accepts payment in Bitcoin for its recreational space flights.

Just as he had his family's support from his childhood to his earliest business ventures to his space flights today, Branson aims to provide encouragement and inspiration for other entrepreneurs.

«Hurricanes live and die by the amount of rainfall they make out of moisture,» said George Huffman, a research meteorologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Reusing rockets cuts the cost of space flights.

Todd May, Director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center told the 2018 Edison Awards attendees that «early space advances centered around being first.»

Space flight is nothing like golf, but if it were, SpaceX's recent headlines would look like a pro who'd fallen off.

He has lead the payload team on a NASA - funded CubeSat project, taken multiple space - policy study abroad trips, and worked internships at Cummins Engine Company, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and Northrop Grumman.

The report, which was first made by Sky News, says that Google is in «advanced talks» to place a minority $ 30 million stake in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and invest an undisclosed amount that is somewhere in the range of «hundreds of millions of dollars» in Sir Richard Branson's ambitious space tourism venture, which aims to take well - heeled clients who can pay $ 200,000 for a ticket to an orbital space flight around the Earth.

Ultimately, the plan is for Blue Origin to become a profitable, self - sustaining enterprise, with a long - term goal to cut the cost of space flight so that millions of people can live and work off Earth, Bezos said.

Like fellow tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of SpaceX, Bezos says that reusability is the key to cutting the cost of space flight.

Working with Yale he received funding from NASA to write algorithms for virtual surgery, so that astronauts could be cut in robotics pods for deep space flights.

«space flights are formulated according to it's preciseness.

Yet, the universe is so accurate that we set our clocks by it, space flights are formulated according to it's preciseness.

We know that sea levels are increasing thanks to the satellite observations, collated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as coastal tide gauge records monitored by Australia's leading science body, the CSIRO.

Space flight is a myth?

The «Ask an Astrophysicist» section of the Web site of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center dismisses this story, and folklorist Jan Harold Brunand has documented the evolution of the legend.

This question was answered in 1983 by the lunar calculations of Colin J Humphreys and W Graeme Waddington, Oxford University, and refined and confirmed in 1989 by Bradley E Schaefer of NASA / Goddard Space Flight Centre, now Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Louisiana State University.

In a society that has moved from horse and buggy to space flight in a single life - span, more and more people regard as archaic any church which seems to locate the golden age or complete revelation somewhere in the past.

It was proposed by NASA to be an ideal food for long duration space flights.

When it comes to extreme experiences even F1 can't quite match the awesomeness of space flight, but are there any similarities?

This Is Rocket Science explores the principles behind space flight explaining difficult concepts in easy to understand terms using fun and easy experiments and investigations.

NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center.

Credit William Putman / NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA Center for Climate Simulation

He will then travel to visit NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

His experience spanned 18 years 6 months from September 1997 — February 2016 at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland as a Telecommunications Service Manager — Mission Routed Data Network (NASA Integrated Services Network).

Senator Marco Rubio (R — FL) co-sponsored bill for promoting commercial space flight and asteroid mining.

Astronomers point ALMA at Titan to calibrate the telescope because the moon has known brightness levels, says Palmer, who also works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center.