Sentences with phrase «as human spaceflight»

Known to Mars Society staff and friends as «Gary», he was a strong advocate of a human mission to the planet Mars, as well as human spaceflight in general.

Not exact matches

«Astronaut John Young's storied career spanned three generations of spaceflight; we will stand on his shoulders as we look toward the next human frontier.»

Other spaceflight companies, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Sierra Nevada and Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin, are variously developing new spacecraft designed to carry humans into orbital space as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP).

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

Entrants share an original handmade item or work of art inspired by NASA and NASA's programs, such as the Space Shuttle Program and human spaceflight, aeronautics, science and exploration of the universe.

«President Obama has once again marginalized America's preeminence in human spaceflight, as well as the American taxpayer, for the benefit of his climate research programs,» said Representative Pete Olson of Texas when Obama released his proposed NASA budget earlier this year.

And space physicians still need to find ways to limit other hazards of human spaceflight that don't have anything to do with weightlessness, such as disturbed sleep and exposure to cosmic radiation.

Weeden, who used to work for the Air Force, says NASA must forge ahead with manned spaceflight, but the Air Force does not need a human presence for its purposes, such as scouting and reconnaissance.

The government's enthusiasm for human spaceflight was no doubt boosted by the selection of Tim Peake, a British Army helicopter pilot, as an ESA astronaut.

While various new initiatives and goals are being offered as justifications for the Administration's proposed human spaceflight program, the budgetary constraints NASA is facing make it critically important for Congress to determine whether the proposed plan is executable, well defined, and worth doing.

Griffin has described the shift of money as a «speed bump,» a temporary measure to get human spaceflight back on course.

The rhetoric of human spaceflight advances a conception of outer space as a place of wide - open spaces and limitless resources — a space frontier.

While NASA tends to use the ISS as a research ground for human spaceflight, the National Laboratory has launched a wide range of basic and applied research and educational opportunities into low orbit, under the motto «off the Earth, for the Earth,» she said.

As the American human spaceflight program began to build momentum, the nation started experimenting with chimpanzees, which are larger and more closely related to humans than are rhesus, squirrel or other monkeys.

Tuck Stebbins, head of the gravitational astrophysics laboratory at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, described the detectors as the «most complex machines humans have ever built.»

-- Receipt of $ 1.2 million from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute as part of an initiative to support human health during spaceflight.

It says that companies have to get a license from the FAA for all commercial human spaceflight launches and reentries, but as for passenger safety, NASA is in charge for its own astronauts and those of other ISS partners.

«If we think of the 2030s as the potential for human exploration, I think this 2020 rover and the other things we might be able to do in the 2020s as a synergistic collaboration between science and human spaceflight.

«The SHERLOC instrument is a valuable opportunity to prepare for human spaceflight as well as to perform fundamental scientific investigations of the Martian surface,» said Marc Fries, a SHERLOC co-investigator and curator of extraterrestrial materials at Johnson Space Center.

A common theme was the Obama Administration's FY2013 budget request for the future of the human spaceflight program and what many see as a competition between commercial crew services to the International Space Station (ISS) and a NASA - developed system to take astronauts further into the solar system.

The all - inclusive annual ASE Planetary Congress, held in a different host country each year, has a long history as the premier forum for astronauts and cosmonauts from all spacefaring nations to meet and exchange information about their respective space agencies, human spaceflight operations and future plans for exploration beyond low earth orbit.

Chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz (R - TX), the main theme was how to avoid a disruption in the human spaceflight program when a new President takes office in 2017 as occurred when President Obama cancelled the Constellation program.

He follows and reports on human spaceflight progress, as well as the progress of the LightSail solar sail, which is about a year from its next flight.

On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue.

It contains comprehensive sections on: - The Sun, Planets, and Dwarf Planets; - Information about their moons; - Other Bodies in the Solar System; - Human Spaceflight; - Timeline of Discovery; The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).