Sentences with phrase «by rocketry»

However, the SLS is also unbelievably expensive — even by rocketry standards.

Not exact matches

Martin Ross, another of the paper's authors, who works at the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., explains that hybrid motors favoured by space tourism companies are safer, cheaper to run, and quicker to refuel than the liquid or solid rocket boosters that have dominated rocketry thus far.

There is irony that many of the advances made in rocketry that even allow us to reach space today came from the government - controlled projects led by Wernher von Braun.

Students from Holland High School, Nardin Academy and Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart journey to Washington Friday to take part in this year's National Rocketry Challenge, sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association.

Furthermore, «Oumuamua shows no sign of moving due to rocketry or other technology, instead following an orbit shaped by the gravitational force of the sun.

These are fairly obvious: the research agendas of nuclear energy, rocketry, genetics, cancer and ecology were all expedited by the war.

Now a fascinating new biography by Jared Buss restores him as a central figure in the history of rocketry and its popularisation.

When I stopped by an elementary class during Genius Hour, I found students with no shortage of project ideas — from rocketry to the history of ceramics.

Examples of clubs we've offered include: skateboarding Sim City butterfly garden hiking model making quiz bowl literature French Latin cricket board games tennis pottery origami science model rocketry weather architecture The club offerings change each quarter, and students make their selections for a club by picking their top three choices during an Advisory meeting.

Newtonian physics is largely correct, and was an amazing advance in its time, but some predictions were wrong and required modification by relativity, such as in the famous Michelson — Morley experiment — and that's fine until your policy is that rocketry calculations should be based on the presence of luminiferous aether.