Sentences with phrase «us space shuttle»

A single Space Shuttle launch costs $ 450 million and places human lives in jeopardy.

«I think he's not going to be able to deliver on those promises,» says Tom Jones, a former astronaut who made four space shuttle trips between 1994 and 2001.

Because in»69 we were able to go to the moon, and the space shuttle could get to low - earth orbit, and then obviously the space shuttle got retired, but that trend line is down to zero.

In 1992, she became the first African American woman to travel to space as a crew member on board the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Thirsk visited the void twice, including 17 days as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1996, and six months aboard the International Space Station last year.

He was the only moon walker to pilot a space shuttle, the first person to go into space six times and the only one to fly and command four types of spacecraft — Gemini, Apollo, lunar module and shuttle.

In news interviews and testimony to the presidential commission that investigated the accident, he warned that space shuttles would continue to reveal defects.

Each of those challenges had been the cause of a Space Shuttle disaster.

«There's no air on the moon, so parachutes don't work,» says Tom Jones, a former NASA astronaut who made four trips to the space shuttle.

A mission called STS - 1 — short for Space Transportation System - 1 — was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's space shuttle program.

The 22 - lb suit is pretty similar to the space shuttle flight suit, though it's used to protect people who fly inside Russia's Soyuz spacecraft (which NASA pays an increasingly hefty sum to use for its own astronauts» travel to and from the space station).

In 1998, he became the oldest person to fly in space when, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, he flew on the space shuttle Discovery.

The suit that astronauts wore during the Space Shuttle program is sometimes called a «pumpkin suit» for its bright orange color.

For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer.

Look at our space shuttle program, which lost two of its four primary vehicles, and two full crews, in the pursuit of science.

In celebration of the Fourth of July, the company posted a photo of the Challenger space shuttle exploding in midair.

Russian flights are now the only way to get to the ISS since the United States retired its space shuttle in 2011.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

These results came from the space - based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, sent to the International Space Station in May, 2011 on the space shuttle Endeavor.

The larger Falcon 9 is designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and has been singled out by President Obama as a possible successor to the Space Shuttle program.

U.S. astronauts have been riding Russian rockets ever since NASA's space shuttles retired in 2011.

According to SpaceX, Falcon Heavy is capable of carrying roughly 2.6 times as much stuff as the US space shuttle program did:

Sierra Nevada had the most novel entry, a winged, lifting body vehicle strongly reminiscent of NASA's space shuttle.

It doesn't matter if it's the space shuttle or a fusion device or whatever it is....

Orion is part of NASA's follow - up program to the now - retired space shuttles that will allow astronauts to travel beyond the International Space Station, which flies about 260 miles (420 km) above Earth.

This is the first time since the Space Shuttle was retired that NASA will have their own ride up to the International Space Station.

As a contract negotiator, he worked with team that built lunar excursion modules for NASA to propel ships back to Earth and later the group that helped to build wings for the space shuttle.

As countdowns go, it may not be as exciting as a Space Shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral or as colorful as a Miss America context, but following the top - five countdown of America's top states for business has its share of suspense.

It's widely recognized that a «can - do» attitude is what led NASA to launching the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings that doing so could be unsafe.

When he got off the space shuttle, I was there waiting at the hatch, the first thing he said to me when he got off was, «I had no idea what that launch was going to be like.»

Even if you look to the Space Shuttle, Rockwell built it, not NASA.

And test pilots at that time, when the space shuttle was flying, most of them would apply to become astronauts, and we did, too.

We're not talking space shuttles.

What it's about: One of the most ambitious James Bond films — with Roger Moore — «Moonraker» has Bond investigating the theft of a space shuttle, leading him to a space million where he stops a global genocide.

Among those listed on its board includes Esther Dyson, the NewSpace investor and venture capitalist, Jeff Ashby, a former NASA space Shuttle commander, and Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Speaker of the House.

For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer — an artifact that ultimately helped explain how the deadly incident happened.

«It's merely an adventure trip,» says Tom Jones, a former astronaut who flew in four space shuttle missions throughout his career with NASA.

«The SSMEs were reusable,» Dan Dumbacher, former NASA deputy associated administrator for exploration systems development, said of the space shuttle main engines.

Since the Space Shuttle program was cancelled, NASA has had to rely on Russian rockets to get astronauts into space, something that is very costly for NASA at a whopping $ 80 per seat.

His next project: SpaceX, a closely held rocket company that was tapped by NASA to take over space shuttle's role of resupplying the International Space Station.

James E. Oberg, a former NASA space shuttle engineer and the author of 10 books on spaceflight who often debunks U.F.O. sightings, was also doubtful.

McCurdy said NASA's space shuttle was a technological marvel, but had a bad business model and wasn't cost effective.

For example, a space rocket designer might want to consider the risk of a one - time failure in a specific reusable rocket booster seal, which was the cause of the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986.

We were joined by two astronauts for the duration of the event: Space Shuttle pilot Greg Johnson and Korea's first astronaut to the ISS Soyeon Yi.

Expedition 15 to Seattle built upon the success of the previous year and included VIP tours of a number of leading entrepreneurial space companies, a Space Shuttle Trainer tour guided by a Space Shuttle pilot Greg Johnson, and special guests including Charles Simonyi, Michael Lopez - Alegria, Peter Diamandis, and key employees from SpaceX and Blue Origin.

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

In 2008, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft won the NASA contract to provide a commercial replacement for the cargo transport function of the Space Shuttle, which retired in 2011.

1986 began in tragedy, with the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28th, just 73 seconds after takeoff.

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, going on to provide countless scientific advances and incredible astronomical photos.

The arc would be a space shuttle naturally, and the parting of the Red Sea would be in 3D.