Sentences with phrase «us space program»

«The new entrants into that over the last several years have helped to raise a lot of the excitement and innovation, and I think that's great for the space program,» Hewson said.

For years, private space programs consisted of daring engineers in the middle of the desert attempting to launch one rocket after another.

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.

He was running a private manned space program that was taking in money.

The longest - serving astronaut in the space program, Young's career began as a Navy test flier.

Gemini was NASA's second space program — and one with more ambitious goals.

That development alone is worth almost every penny spent on space programs, ever.

As India launches the first smartphone into space, critics are questioning how a nation with so many people living in poverty should spend money to expand a space program.

The space program is the tent - pole for the entire scientific enterprise, yielding manifold benefits, in ways we haven't — and can't yet — conceive.

A man also doesn't build his own space program and purchase a newspaper if the only thing he cares about is making money.

Obama referenced America's race to one - up the Russians in space exploration during the 50s and 60s: «We built a space program almost overnight,» he said, «and twelve years later, we were walking on the moon.»

Bigelow first started his space company, Bigelow Aerospace, in 1999 to develop habitats for use as research labs for corporations and countries without space programs, housing for missions to Mars, or even as hotels for tourists on the final frontier.

Dozens of private companies have now taken up where government space programs — and the public funding behind them — left off.

But its small size doesn't stop it from having its own postal service, space program, and currency, the value of which is tied to the price of cookie dough.

Or the former standup comic who creates form - shaping undergarments, or the South African immigrant who creates a new electric car and private space program.

Take the space program as an example.

With our space program, you've got regulators who have limited the lawsuits that can take place with private space - flight companies.

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

This is not the first time that private industry has been involved in the space program.

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.

Feloni: And what do you think of the current private space race, and how that interacts with government space programs?

«They have very young engineers in their space program — very keen, very well trained, very ambitious.»

My personal experience working with Russians in the space program, and my other friends in Russia, even some of them that had nothing to do with the space program, they've always been very, very generous people.

Kelly: Yeah, if I couldn't explain it to him, it's kind of hard to put it into words to other people that don't have a similar background and understanding of the space program.

That's when she decided to sell a prototype she'd developed after a trip home to India, a sponge - like smart fabric — inspired by materials used in the Russian space program — that helps alleviate heat stress in super-hot climates.

While this is not as exciting a find as the planet covered with oceans of oil that everyone was hoping scientists would find, maybe the promise of untold riches is just the incentive NASA needs to get its space program in gear.

The image, called «Earthrise,» is arguably the most important legacy of the Apollo space program, showing the Earth rising over the moon's horizon.

We later built a launcher for Estes rockets with buttons, switches, wire and solder from Radio Shack to start our family space program!

What's more, SpaceX is proving its ability to reuse rocket boosters, which if adopted widely would lower space programs» costs considerably.

The cost was so low, and the concept so simple, that space exploration is now within grasp of the everyday person, and many other groups around the world are pursuing their own low - cost space programs as a consequence.

Apart from charity, he said in April that he gives $ 1 billion to his space program called Blue Origins, LLC by selling his shares every year.

He has worked in both government and commercial space programs, and has held leadership positions in commercial ventures and NASA.

I collect artifacts from the Apollo space program and have a lunar module decent engine in my private museum.

Government space programs and private sector initiatives are increasingly overlapping; both sides are championing a return to crewed deep - space missions, and new business models have democratized access to space to an unprecedented degree.

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.

This too many people involved in the NASA Space Program and in Space Programs around the world that if it wasn't tool would be talking about it.

The space program that John F. Kennedy launched in the early 1960s was carried out by ships named after Roman gods: Jupiter, Atlas, Titan, Apollo.

By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969.

The space program and the stunning pictures of earth, at first grainy black - and - white shadows of the great shapes familiar from maps, gave further impetus to the idea of convergence, of one world.

Tell us, so we can cut funding to NASA and just appoint religious leaders to man our space program at a much cheaper cost.

And when you get right down to it, her description of the science was not really that great either (which is not surprising, considering her experience in the space program was as an engineer, not a scientist), so it's wrong to say there is nothing wrong with her synopsis.

In our first few months, my administration made the largest single investment in basic research in our history, and I went to the Kennedy Space Center to call for reimagining and reinvigorating our space program to explore more of our solar system and look deeper into the universe than ever.

This firmament, if it existed, would have been quite an obstacle to our 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.

I did find it a bit odd that the Doctor mentioned that this event in 2049 was what rebooted the space programs and sent humanity to the stars when he said something very similar in the Waters of Mars episode about Adelaide Brook's grand - daughter being inspired by their failed mission.

According to Tom Wolfe, our space program needs a philosophic justification to get the «godlike» adventure that gave us all that right stuff going again.

Finally, NASA knew the importance of education along with ballyhoo, and a huge Space Center was erected at Cape Kennedy (just a few miles from Disney World) where families could see a super-wide-screen movie celebrating the technological marvels of the space program, tour actual rockets and historic space capsules, and on occasion even see a blast - off of one of the many space launches.

The space program also depended upon another automobile innovation: the unveiling.

The space program raises a different set of questions regarding the good use of technology.