Sentences with phrase «us space programme»

It possessed impressive military, scientific and space programmes yet also profound internal weaknesses that eventually contributed to its downfall.

[140][141] The first practical step in its endeavor was a CanSat launched on 15 May 2013, a space programme spearheaded by the All Nations University College (ANUC) in Koforidua.

North Korea argues that the satellite is part of its space programme, categorising it as merely scientific.

The Ghana Space Science and Technology Centre (GSSTC) and Ghana Space Agency (GhsA) oversees the space exploration and space programmes of Ghana and GSSTC and GhsA officials are to have a national security observational satellite launched into orbit in 2015.

India's space programme and its surging economy are cited as reasons to slash aid to the country.

Critics of the UK aid budget have long complained that India is an emerging superpower which is investing heavily in its own space programme and military.

The leaflet in the series that attacks Labour focuses on a failure to honour a promise to hold a referendum on Lisbon, Labour MEPs» support for joining the Euro, support for the Working Time Directive, support for an EU Space programme and also for a Euro Army:

After playing an integral role in the fledgling US space programme, DARPA gave us the satellite - based global positioning system (GPS), stealth aircraft and the precursor to the internet.

«China's space programme has made tremendous advances in a short period of time,» says Michael Moloney, who directs boards covering aerospace and space science at the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington DC.

China's space programme «has become increasingly confident and outward looking», says Wörner.

The second rocket failure in two weeks is likely to cause delays for China's ambitious space programme whilst the causes are under investigation

The race to revisit the moon is on, and with national space programmes and private companies all setting it in their sights, it might even get a bit crowded

Between national space programmes and private initiatives, 2018 is the goal launch year for at least eight different missions to the moon, making it the most popular destination outside low Earth orbit.

The US space programme has a new focus on an old destination.

If Congress votes to take Tito up on his offer, it could help return a sense of purpose to the US human space programme: despite talk of a NASA mission to the vicinity of Mars in the 2030s or sending crew to an asteroid, SLS currently has no firm destination.

Against this gloomy background, Mir is one of the glittering successes of the Russian space programme.

The programme also deserves separate funding on a par with other «big science» initiatives such as space programmes, he said.

It should have begun in spring 1967 following the American Mercury and Gemini crewed space programmes, but the Apollo programme got off to a bad start.

Or perhaps it's time to sort out the country's muddled space programme?

Grant proposals with links to the European space programme are being made, and both NASA and the European Space Agency are eager to see applications from astrobiologists.

«Just as it was possible with the space programme to marshall the necessary resources through a sheer act of will... the same thing is possible here,» Topping says.

I was with reader Steve Pickering 100 per cent until he proposed a crewed space programme as an alternative project...

China has had considerable success in its crewed space programme.

As countries develop their space programmes, a lunar trek is a natural first foray.

While he has offered few details on policies for biomedical research, Trump said last year that he has heard «terrible» things about the US National Institutes of Health; he has also derided NASA as a «logistics agency for low - Earth orbit activity ``, and said he would expand the role of the commercial space industry in the US space programme.

For instance, one section stipulates that the benefits derived from lunar natural resources, such as profits made by selling mined minerals, will be equitably shared by nation states who sign up, including countries that don't have their own space programmes.

SO you want to start your own space programme?

Yes, it is bewildering that there will be no «next shuttle launch date» as there has been for most of the past 30 years, but let's admit it, the loss now felt is more a visceral reaction than a rational assessment of where the space programme of the US and the rest of the world actually stands — and where it's headed.

With the US facing economic crisis and the shuttle on the brink of retirement, how will NASA's space programme fare under the next president?

This exercise could cost $ 1 billion, but it would be a sum well spent, he says: «You're talking about a decision that would be central to our space programme for two or three decades.»

In the same way that the space programme has yielded technology that has transformed our lives, so exploring supernatural happenings produces remarkable insights into our brains, beliefs and everyday behaviour.

He pointed out that Ukraine played a part in the Soviet space programme.

With only 100 shopping days till Christmas, space enthusiasts might like to start saving for a trip to New York, where more than 250 artefacts from the Soviet Union's pioneering space programme will go under the hammer at Sotheby's in December.

Another part of the ESA space programme, the Columbus free - flyer, will be cut altogether if ESA's 13 member countries approve the plan.

The 115 - kilogram satellite is the first of four satellites to be built under the Brazilian space programme, which was established by the Brazilian government at the end of 1979.

A US ban on the sale of space technology to India will affect the Indian space programme only «a little bit», according to U. R. Rao, head of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

The loss — the latest in an embarrassing string of failures for the US space programme — could leave the US without any means of collecting observations for civilian purposes.

The items on offer have stunned Western specialists who, for years, have tried to piece together details of the Soviet space programme from sketchy Tass dispatches and other fragments of information.

Russia's space programme is on the brink of crisis, according to officials who gave evidence to a special hearing at the Russian parliament earlier this month.

Silicon Valley firms and entrepreneurs have started betting big on «moonshots»: grand projects that will be tough, if not impossible, to pull off, but which would have a huge impact if they succeeded — like the Apollo space programme, the original moonshot.

«These grand projects would have a huge impact if they succeeded, like the Apollo space programme ``

Rao says, however, that «it is very well known that the Indian space programme is a totally peaceful programme».

Six trainees, from other European countries, will be eligible for NASA flights and Europe's proposed manned space programme.

Efforts to commercialise the Russian space programme have met with little success.

Since the earliest days of the space programme, mechanical devices on spacecraft have appeared to be well within the state of the art.

The story of the rocket scientists sequestered for the Soviet and US space programmes has become familiar.

The idea was to pay homage to the progenitors of powered flight, without whom the space programme would not have happened.

If 5 minutes is too brief for you, pay the Russian space programme $ 35 million and you can buy yourself a whole week's stay on the International Space Station.

The unsuccessful rocket launch on Sunday could affect future Chinese space programmes, according to experts.

Conclusion The U.S. space programme today is frozen in its tracks.