Sentences with phrase «build the space shuttle»

So they built the space shuttle instead — cheap to design, expensive to fly, partially reusable.

But the last of a dozen men walked on the Moon in December 1972 after President Richard Nixon cancelled further Apollo missions in order to build the space shuttle.

You have to keep in mind that coffee is just «1» nutrient or «tool» that can be beneficial but coffee alone is not the answer to all thyroid issues, Parkinson's, etc... That would be like trying to build the space shuttle with just a screwdriver.

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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.

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

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 Orspace 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 OrSpace 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 OrSpace Shuttle pilot Greg Johnson, and special guests including Charles Simonyi, Michael Lopez - Alegria, Peter Diamandis, and key employees from SpaceX and Blue Origin.

They build cool cars, space shuttles, digging machines etc..

We went to the park, went to «coffee» each day, had a play date with a friend a few months younger than him (which he LOVED — someone who played WITH him, not telling him what to do every minute like his sister does), watched a movie of his choosing, ate what he asked for at dinner, built space stations and launch pads out of Legos for his Space Shuttle, and read lots of books togespace stations and launch pads out of Legos for his Space Shuttle, and read lots of books togeSpace Shuttle, and read lots of books together.

Resist the urge to build an exact replica of the Space Shuttle Discovery.

The party came at a time when museum officials were trying to persuade the state to allow the construction of a building on a lot across the West Side Highway from the aircraft carrier to house the space shuttle Enterprise.

In the background is the Vehicle Assembly building where the old Saturn V rockets and space shuttles were assembled.

«We might even have to roll the space shuttle back into the Vehicle Assembly Building.»

With NASA's announcement that the 30 - year - old space shuttle program would end after the touchdown of Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center this summer, the iconic agency has, for now, abandoned the concept of government - built manned spacecspace shuttle program would end after the touchdown of Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center this summer, the iconic agency has, for now, abandoned the concept of government - built manned spacecSpace Center this summer, the iconic agency has, for now, abandoned the concept of government - built manned spacecraft.

To develop KidsArm, SickKids partnered with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), the Canadian company that was behind the space shuttle's robotic arm and built the robotic system aboard the space station for the Canadian Space Agency (space shuttle's robotic arm and built the robotic system aboard the space station for the Canadian Space Agency (space station for the Canadian Space Agency (Space Agency (CSA).

NASA has subsequently shifted its long - term focus away from the space shuttle and the International Space Station toward the creation of a crew - carrying vehicle to fulfill its new mandate, and engineers at the agency are supremely confident that they have the technical know - how to build such a spacecspace shuttle and the International Space Station toward the creation of a crew - carrying vehicle to fulfill its new mandate, and engineers at the agency are supremely confident that they have the technical know - how to build such a spacecSpace Station toward the creation of a crew - carrying vehicle to fulfill its new mandate, and engineers at the agency are supremely confident that they have the technical know - how to build such a spacecraft.

BOR is a Russian acronym for unpiloted orbital rocket plane; the Russians built the experimental craft in response to the then - new U.S. space shuttle program.

The truth is, NASA has always relied on private industry to help design and build the vehicles that carry astronauts to space, from the Mercury capsule that carried John Glenn into orbit nearly 50 years ago to the space shuttle Discovery currently orbiting overhead.»

NASA hopes to resume shuttle flights by May and to keep them going long enough to finish building the space station, using no more than 18 launches.

The shuttle is now busy building the international space station, however, and it may be tough to reserve one to reclaim a defunct satellite as well as find the $ 50 million needed for such a mission.

But UARS was built in an era when engineers envisioned the space shuttle routinely returning scientific spacecraft, and it lacks the thrust capacity to be placed on a path for controlled reentry.

Obama proposed jettisoning much of the Constellation program, which Bush set up to build rockets and Apollo - like capsules to replace the space shuttle, and instead paying private companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch astronauts into orbit.

The X-37B, built by Boeing, is a miniature, uncrewed version of NASA's retired space shuttle.

* NASA builds a new fuel tank for the SPACE SHUTTLE, getting one step closer to liftoff.

Besides the Eureca programme, space missions dedicated to microgravity research have resumed using Spacelab, the laboratory built by ESA that fits in the shuttle's cargo bay.

Nimoy recalled the naming of the space shuttle orbiter, which was built as a prototype for NASA's reusable spaceship fleet.

With a little more than a year to go before U.S. astronauts launch aboard a U.S. - built spacecraft, and from U.S. soil, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era, NASA has ordered its second Post-Certification Mission (PCM) from SpaceX.

Ferguson's last spacecraft, NASA's space shuttle Atlantis, already was built and had achieved veteran spaceflight status years before «Fergie», as he is known, climbed into the commander's seat for the last of the shuttle missions in 2011.

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The Space Shuttles weren't starships, but we have built starships.

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The drag race is the culmination of Motor Trend's Best Driver's Car competition and this year it took place at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on the 15,000 - foot runway that was built back in the 1970's for landing the Space Shuttle.

Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB was used for the Saturn V rocket and Space Shuttle programs along with the four story Launch Control Center which supervised the launches.

Aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday that it received approval to use repurposed space shuttle parts to build a habitat for a potential manned mission to Mars.

When we first saw De Maria Design's Redondo Beach House, we took a pass - it just didn't look like «Seventy percent of the building is efficiently created / assembled in a controlled shop environment» when the pictures show empty boxes and conventional construction, insulated with «ceramic - based insulation [that] is the same as a product used on NASA's Space Shuttle.»