Sentences with phrase «commercial space flight»

The foundation also runs award programs that encourage development of commercial space flight and other technologies.

Served as key author on bill to promote commercial space flight and asteroid mining.

It's too early to say if commercial space flight will help that happen, but the will appears to be there.

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-.

The House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will tackle commercial space flight in December.

Dale Nash became the Executive Director of Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (VCSFA) in July 2012.

Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (VCSFA), also known as «Virginia Space,» is an independent authority of the State of Virginia with a charter to support space - related business, economic development, and STEM education within the Commonwealth.

A confident SpaceX has merged its final two test flights to the International Space Station in a bid to press on aggressively with commercial space flights for NASA

As Richard Branson prepares to launch the first - ever commercial space flights, here's a look at the famous faces who will be on board.

And the White House requested that the budget to support commercial space flight be more than doubled.

The Project Mercury astronaut data can be of interest to operators of future commercial space flights as the short duration of the Mercury missions is similar to that of planned future tourist spaceflight opportunities.

Ten years of soot from commercial space flight might do as much harm as soot from all current commercial air travel.

Senator Marco Rubio (R — FL) co-sponsored bill for promoting commercial space flight and asteroid mining.

A third successful launch for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has kicked off the age of commercial space flight

And the bill provides only $ 150 million over the next 3 years to enable commercial flights to carry astronauts to the international space station and back, just a fraction of the $ 3.3 billion the Administration wants to spend on promoting commercial space flight.

The commercial space flight company sent its space plane, VSS Unity, for its first untethered test flight in two years, a step towards space tourism

Mr. Hudson currently is the President of the Space Studies Institute, a non-profit dedicated to commercial space flight and human space travel.

SpaceX has become the company to watch in the commercial space flight arena.

Richard Branson announced in late 2013 that his commercial space flight venture will accept bitcoin as payment.