Sentences with phrase «commercial human space»

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In so doing, the privately funded SpaceShipOne had carried humans to space and back again twice within a week, earning its owners the Ansari X-Prize, meant to spur the opening of the age of commercial space travel.

While Sirius was wrought from Rothblatt's passions regarding the commercial capacities of outer space, today she is on the hunt for immortality, a pursuit that currently includes the creation of robots called «mindclones,» or digital replicas of human minds.

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).

The NASTAR center is (to date) the only private training facility to meet FAA safety regulations for both orbital and suborbital human spaceflight, which has made them a de facto partner for commercial space companies like Virgin Galacticand Astronauts 4 Hire.

In a statement responding to Golden Spike's announcement, a NASA spokesperson said: «This type of private sector effort is further evidence of the timeliness and wisdom of the Obama administration's overall space policy — to create an environment where commercial space companies can build upon NASA's past successes, allowing the agency to focus on the new challenges of sending humans to an asteroid and eventually Mars.»

Europe, he says, no longer looks to commercial spin - offs of the research on the International Space Station as its primary motivation for sending humans into sSpace Station as its primary motivation for sending humans into spacespace.

No commercial space vehicles are certified to carry humans yet, but the race is on.

But as commercial space flight heats up and costs go down, he thinks the future lies in swarms of low - cost robots (see «Termite robots build castles with no human help «-RRB-.

Britain has a long - standing policy of avoiding any programs of the European Space Agency that involve human spaceflight, focusing its efforts on robotic science missions, earth observation, and the commercial exploitation of sSpace Agency that involve human spaceflight, focusing its efforts on robotic science missions, earth observation, and the commercial exploitation of spacespace.

He did say that the panel is mulling over what role commercial launchers and potential foreign partners might play in a future human space flight effort.

The commercial crew program — subsidies for companies like SpaceX to develop privately owned, human - rated rockets — would get $ 805 million, while the agency would spend $ 2.051 billion on its own rocket, the Space Launch System, a lumbering, and delayed, heavy - lift vehicle that will not see its first launch until the end of 2018.

Like the Ansari X Prize for sending a human into space, the lunar contest is meant to stimulate commercial space exploration.

«As interest in space travel grows — for both research and commercial aims — it is increasingly important to understand the effect a microgravity environment can have on the human heart for both the traveler and their potential future children,» said Karen Ocorr, Ph.D., assistant professor of the Development, Aging and Regeneration Program at SBP.

The Commercial Crew Program, building on the success of NASA's commercial cargo program, has been working to end the gap in the United States» domestic access to space, which will end up being more than seven years by the time the first human fligCommercial Crew Program, building on the success of NASA's commercial cargo program, has been working to end the gap in the United States» domestic access to space, which will end up being more than seven years by the time the first human fligcommercial cargo program, has been working to end the gap in the United States» domestic access to space, which will end up being more than seven years by the time the first human flights occur.

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.

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It has truly been an exciting year for Mars and human space exploration with NASA's announcement of the Journey to Mars program that includes a human mission to the Red Planet, astronaut Scott Kelly starting a one - year mission on board the ISS, the highly - publicized debut of «The Martian» movie, the successful growth of SpaceX and the commercial space industry, and NASA's recent confirmation of water on the surface of Mars.

But the new world of commercial spaceflight has yet to launch a human into space, let alone civilians and leave them there for two weeks.

Scaled to human height and shaped like a passageway, the aluminum - mounted print beckons us inward, to a space at once cosmic and commercial, primal and performative.

Jon Jerde, an architect who understood the human desire to shop, and whose designs «merged the mall and downtown, commercial and public space, and faux environments and real experiences,» died on February 9 at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 75.