Sentences with phrase «first private space»

Artist Statement «SpaceX Dragon in 2010 is historic in its event that it is the first private space craft to orbit the world.

The B612 Foundation — named for the asteroid that was home to The Little Prince — today announced their plan to build, fly and operate the first private space telescope: an asteroid hunter called Sentinel.

The B612 Foundation — named for the asteroid that was home to the prince in The Little Prince — has announced a plan to build, fly and operate the first private space telescope.

As Axiom's president, Suffredini's goal is simple: to build and fly the world's first private space station, using the ISS as a springboard.

It would mark the first private space mission to the moon, if successful.

Not exact matches

Gilliland notes private company Solara bested the government - funded Human Genome Project by hitting important milestones first, and Elon Musk's SpaceX found a way to send rockets into space for a fifth the cost of a NASA launch.

The space industry started the first quarter of this year the way it ended the last — with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private funding flowing into commercial space companies.

Bezos» Blue Origin is rapidly passing milestones with its BE-4 engine, SpaceX astounded millions with its Falcon Heavy launch, Virgin Galactic completed the first powered flight of its Unity rocket and Bigelow took the next step toward the world's first habitable private space station with Bigelow Space Operatspace station with Bigelow Space OperatSpace Operations.

His machine now hangs in the Smithsonian — a stone's throw away from SpaceShipOne, the first private manned space vehicle.

In the entrepreneurial achievement of 2004, Burt Rutan became the first private businessman to launch human beings into space.

The Air Force said that Thursday's launch was the X-37B program's fifth space flight and the first to be sent aloft on a rocket by Elon Musk's private space cargo company SpaceX.

This is the first time Stennis has signed such a public - private partnership agreement, which is becoming increasingly common in NASA's strategy to foster the space industry.

This is not the first time that private industry has been involved in the space program.

It inspired him to set out on a journey to inspire a similar path to launching the first private manned flight into space, a feat he saw realized in 2004.

In addition to the state law declaring the quad a public area, the First Amendment protects the right of journalists to report in public spaces, and the «right» to define your own private or «safe» space doesn't trump that.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

SpaceX is the first private company to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, which it did for the first time in 2012.

Space Exploration Technology has already sent the first private rocket and capsule into Earth's orbit as a commercial venture.

«Popular with Amazon and Google, we are the first serviced office company to provide such a facility for our clients, allowing them a quiet, private space for important calls or video conferences,» Hefferman added.

Among them Richard Garriott de Cayeux, a man who was one of the first private citizens to travel to space, saw his own journey to the stars portrayed on screen in the film Man on a Mission: Richard Garriott's Road to the Stars.

«Our Expedition aims to provide an inside, first - hand look at the emerging private space industry, nurturing our members» aspirational pursuits and instilling a sense of awe and wonder, which ultimately fosters their desire to participate in and support the industry.»

Here, later this year, an exclusive group of Space Angels» most active investor members will come together for an inside, first - hand look at the emerging private space induSpace Angels» most active investor members will come together for an inside, first - hand look at the emerging private space induspace industry.

Yaser Moustafa, Senior Managing Director, NBK Capital Partners stated, «In a pioneering move, NBK Capital Partners was one of the first private equity firms to invest in the fast growing Mediterranean aquaculture space.

The first X Prize, for the first private piloted vehicle to reach space, led to the development of SpaceShipOne, a rocket - powered plane that made two flights in two weeks in 2004 to win the $ 10 million prize.

Controversy first flared when Mr Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group Queer Space, requested a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie for a private function marking International Day Against Homophobia.

Controversy first flared when Mr Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group Queer Space, ordered a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie for a private function marking International Day Against Homophobia.

An opulent layer cake of a space, Le Foret offers private dining and a courtyard on the fourth floor, a third - floor event space, a spillover dining room on the second floor and a lushly appointed main dining room on the first.

While the media talks up the «benefit» of working moms an highlight the fact that companies are required to provide them with a clean, dedicated, private space to pump milk, perhaps the bigger issue is having to get back to work so quickly in the first place.

The first is: «A private space.»

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to provide most «non-exempt» employees with a «reasonable break time» and a private space, other than a bathroom, for the expression of breastmilk, through the child's first birthday.

I feel that women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk about you know the effect both positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.

For the first time, the privately operated schools will be eligible for government funds to cover the costs of leasing classroom space in private buildings, Albany sources said.

That puts GeoOptics in head - to - head competition with Spire for the first private satellite systems doing business in space.

It's the first step in broader plans for private space firms to explore deep space, including Mars (see main story).

That would be Virgin Galactic (VG), the pet project of British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, whose nascent spaceliner may be just a year or two away from becoming the first private company to blast paying passengers into space.

Later that year, when the company won the $ 10 million Ansari X Prize for becoming the first commercial organization to launch a reusable, manned rocket ship into space twice within a two - week period, Congress approved a phased approach to regulations for private manned spaceflight, a move that was intended to encourage investment in the field.

Space tourism got a $ 10 million boost in the early morning of October 4 over California's Mojave Desert when the rocket glider SpaceShipOne captured the Ansari X Prize, awarded to the first private, manned craft to venture into space twice within a two - week peSpace tourism got a $ 10 million boost in the early morning of October 4 over California's Mojave Desert when the rocket glider SpaceShipOne captured the Ansari X Prize, awarded to the first private, manned craft to venture into space twice within a two - week pespace twice within a two - week period.

The company even created the hybrid rocket system that put the first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, into outer space in 2004.

At a gala in California, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed what could become the first private vehicle to ferry people to and from the space station

Work is underway to establish the world's first private, international commercial space station

Meanwhile, the Planetary Society in the United States and private Russian space organizations are developing Cosmos 1, the first fully functional solar sail.

To go back into space, it needed a new heat shield and parachutes among other smaller refurbishments, but this marks the first time any private company has sent the same vehicle into orbit twice.

If everything goes according to plan, the first commercial flight will be a watershed moment as it will mark the first time that a private company has provided the U.S.» space agency with crew transportation services.

SpaceX has used the iconic Launch Complex 39A at John F. Kennedy Space Center to launch a Falcon 9 rocket and accompanying Dragon cargo capsule towards the International Space Station, the first private launch from a site that lifted off...

Virgin Galactic, the private space company that aims to become the first commercial spaceliner in the world, kicked 2014 into high gear with the third successful powered -LSB-...]

You don't want to meet them in a secluded private space for the first time.»

Ansari is an entrepreneur who earned the superlatives of «first female private space explorer» and «first astronaut of Iranian descent» in 2006.

She's one of the first students to participate in the Pacific Rim Exchange (dubbed PacRimX), a cross-cultural project that will link several high schools in the Modesto, California, area to Kyoto Gakuen High School, in Kyoto, Japan, via a group of private «islands» in the Teen Second Life Grid (a separate Second Life space that exists apart from the Main Grid and is open only to kids 13 - 17 and approved adults).

With those words, Barbara Radding Morgan, 33, answered the question «Why do you want to become the first U.S. private citizen in space?»

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's «teacher in space» project was announced last year after President Reagan said that a teacher would be the first private citizen to fly on a space - shuttle misSpace Administration's «teacher in space» project was announced last year after President Reagan said that a teacher would be the first private citizen to fly on a space - shuttle misspace» project was announced last year after President Reagan said that a teacher would be the first private citizen to fly on a space - shuttle misspace - shuttle mission.