Sentences with phrase «first space shuttle flight»

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On May 25, just 10 months after NASA's final space shuttle flight, a cargo capsule called Dragon docked with the International Space Station, a first for a commercial space vehspace shuttle flight, a cargo capsule called Dragon docked with the International Space Station, a first for a commercial space vehSpace Station, a first for a commercial space vehspace vehicle.

The skull went first to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's PaleoLab in Pittsburgh, then made a brief trip to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuspace shuttle.

The craft was the first continuously occupied outpost in space and gave researchers the means to conduct experiments not for just a week or two, the typical length of a space - shuttle flight, but for months on end.

His first flight was aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1999 (STS - 103) on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

This week includes the 57th anniversary of the first human spaceflight — Yuri Gagarin's one - orbit ride aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and the 37th anniversary of the first U.S. space shuttle flight — STS - 1 on April 12, 1981, with John Young and Bob Crippen at the controls.

Garrett Reisman — Human Space Flight Past and Present: Lessons Learned About Inspiration and Determination Selected by NASA as a mission specialist astronaut in 1998, Garrett Reisman's first mission was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which brought him to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 95 - day mission.

Elinor Smith took her first flight at age 6, became a licensed pilot at 16, was voted «Best Woman Pilot in America» over the likes of Amelia Earhart, went on to be a test pilot, and, at age 89, «flew» NASA's space - shuttle simulator.

They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800.

German insurace giant Allianz is to offer insurance cover to the space tourists, The insurance package launch is to coincide with the first flight of the Richard Branson led Virgin Galactic space shuttle.

Artist Statement «The first flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and it set all kinds of records!