Sentences with phrase «for human space exploration»

Mr. Gerstenmaier will provide an update on the latest plans and programs for Human Space Exploration for 2018 and beyond.

The Mars Society is pleased to announce that former NASA Deputy Administrator Dr. Dava Newman will speak about current planning for human space exploration at the 20th Annual International Mars Society Convention, scheduled for September 7 - 10, 2017 at the University of California Irvine.

Its chairman, Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), wanted to shape NASA's plan for human space exploration, research missions, and other activities at the $ 20 billion agency.

The next step for human space exploration after the International Space Station is to send astronauts on a Near Earth Asteroid by 2025, as planned by NASA.

ExoMars comprises two missions under ESA's Aurora programme designed to further scientific discovery and develop technologies to lay the foundations for human space exploration.

Not exact matches

Only after the Falcon Heavy is rigorously tested and SpaceX manages to deliver on its promises of cheaper space launches, a return to the moon, and a mission to Mars (or fail to, for that matter) will we be able to say for sure which rocket was the true champion of human space exploration.

In an interview published on Business Insider, the billionaire emphasized space exploration as imperative for human survival.

Mr. Musk has also served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of Space Exploration Corporation, a company which is developing and launching advanced rockets for satellite and eventually human transportation, since May 2002, and as Chairman of SolarCity, a solar installation company, since July 2006.

For anyone who remembers the palpable excitement of Apollo - era space exploration, today's space industry represents an opportunity to rekindle the ambitions of decades past; to finally witness the evolving potential of a human presence on other planets, and to meaningfully participate in the current space renaissance by investing in compelling entrepreneurial space ventures.

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«I am an unabashed supporter of space exploration in general and of human spaceflight in particular,» Griffin told Congress in 2003, when he called for a human return to the moon and a trip to Mars.

«With these system concept studies, we are taking the next steps to develop capabilities needed to send humans deeper into space than ever before, and ultimately to Mars, while testing new techniques to protect Earth from asteroids,» William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.

The work can potentially be applied to miniaturizing MAVs useful for remote observation and dispersion in a range of applications, from agriculture to space exploration, especially in conditions hazardous to humans.

Drawing a parallel to the first modern humans to leave Africa, Impey casts space exploration and colonization as inevitable for our insatiably curious species.

THEMIS Principal Investigator Philip Christensen and THEMIS Mission Planner, Jonathon Hill of ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration, combined visible - wavelength and infrared data to produce an image color - coded for surface temperatures of this moon, which has been considered for a potential future human - mission outpost.

Investigating how space radiation affects astronauts and learning ways to mitigate those effects are critical to further human exploration of space, and NASA needs to consider these risks as it plans for missions to Mars and beyond.

Amid the fresh scientific questions emerging on Earth — and sweeping budget cuts for space exploration — Congress in 1984 gave NASA a new mandate: increase «human knowledge of the Earth.»

These issues of astronaut health «must be dealt with now before fundamental decisions are reached concerning the appropriate time for humans to move away from Earth on voyages of exploration,» Ronald White, former associate director of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in Houston, wrote in a recent paper.

The NIC Human Space Flight team at Goddard is already planning the communications for Exploration Mission - 1, the first flight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed flight.

Like space exploration, exploring the deep can be delicate and dangerous — a stage for human victories and heart - rending mistakes.

You quote Wernher von Braun in Feedback (1 March), who argued that space exploration would become a means for human advancement, as «wars, which had somewhat similar «rallying» effects, are no longer feasible».

You quote Wernher von Braun in Feedback (1 March), who argued that space exploration would become a means for human...

The investigations aboard Dragon will help us improve our understanding of how humans adapt to living in space for long periods of time and help us develop technologies that will enable deep space exploration.»

«SpaceX is delivering important research experiments and cargo to the space station,» said William Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations.

Understanding the risks of radiation and the other extreme environments of space flight «is critical to provide safe passage for human exploration to the moon and Mars,» says microbiologist Cheryl Nickerson of Arizona State University in Tempe.

«An asteroid in the Earth - moon system would provide a safer destination to begin developing our capability for human deep space exploration,» says Chris Lewicki of Planetary Resources, a space - mining firm in Seattle.

An international team of researchers from NASA Ames Research Center, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate at Health Canada, Oxford University, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Insilico Medicine, the Biogerontology Research Center, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Lethbridge, Ghent University, Center for Healthy Aging and many others have published a roadmap toward enhancing human radioresistance for space exploration and colonization in the peer - reviewed journal Oncotarget.

Furthermore, given the massive amount of funding allocated to research into facilitating and optimizing space exploration and optimization, the researchers hope to have shown how research into enhancing radioresistance for space exploration could galvanize progress in human healthspan extension, an area of research that is still massively underfunded despite its potential to prevent the massive economic burden posed by the future healthcare costs associated with demographic aging.

Part of President Obama's FY 2014 budget request for NASA, the asteroid initiative capitalizes on activities across the agency's human exploration, space technology and science programs.

«This paper explores the foreseeable means by which human radioresistance could be biomedically enhanced for the purposes of space exploration and colonization.

The purpose of this study is to collect data on the viability of edible plants grown in microgravity, supporting further human space exploration by contributing to the future goal of maintaining an available supply of fresh produce for crew members.

The same goes for Mars, making it expensive to launch missions there too — perhaps even prohibitively expensive if President Obama's review of NASA's human space exploration policy is to be believed.

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

The additional funds would support the administration's directive to reinvigorate human and robotic exploration of Earth's moon and other planets in the solar system but would also come at the expense of several other big - ticket items in NASA's portfolio — namely the International Space Station (ISS) as well as the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), a «flagship» - class mission next in line for launch after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Today, it develops and launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space.

The letter from the Coalition for Space Exploration thanks the committee for its support of human and robotic exploration programs (specifically mentioning the James Webb Space Telescope as an «exploration science mission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - Exploration thanks the committee for its support of human and robotic exploration programs (specifically mentioning the James Webb Space Telescope as an «exploration science mission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - exploration programs (specifically mentioning the James Webb Space Telescope as an «exploration science mission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - exploration science mission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] in 2018.

The Hubble Space Telescope has an eye on storms across the solar system, but the weather on Mars is chief among the challenges NASA faces as we plan for human exploration of the Red Planet in the 2030s.

Orion will use an advanced crew capsule design utilizing state of the art technology and is a key element of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and will succeed the Space Shuttle in transporting a new generation of human explorers to and from the International Space Station, the Moon and eventually to Mars and beyond.

The report, Pathways to Exploration — Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth oExploration — Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (Human Space Exploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth oExploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth oexploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).

Instead, the asteroid initiative was designed to advance long - term human space exploration in a time when the budget doesn't exist for human missions to the Moon.

«Electric propulsion can offer the ability to move large masses through space with minimum fuel usage,» said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations.

A: Mars Direct is a sustained humans - to - Mars plan developed by Dr. Robert Zubrin that advocates a minimalist, live - off - the - land approach to space exploration, allowing for maximum results with minimum investment.

The Mars Society is pleased to announce that it has joined the online Marspedia project started by two other space advocacy groups - The Mars Foundation and The Moon Society - in an effort to build out a great resource for people of all ages to learn more about the planet Mars, promote the human and robotic exploration of the Red Planet and encourage STEM education.

Mammoth hemoglobin, for example, may reveal information about mammalian blood useful to treating human diseases, and potentially the future of human space exploration (such as surviving cold environments); but the mutations that create mammoth hemoglobin need to be brought back to life for such discoveries to happen.

Still, Cucinotta pointed to «Cancer Risk From Exposure to Galactic Cosmic Rays: Implications for Space Exploration by Human Beings» from The Lancet Oncology as being one of particular note because it highlighted the health risks associated with humans» space travel endeaSpace Exploration by Human Beings» from The Lancet Oncology as being one of particular note because it highlighted the health risks associated with humans» space travel endeaspace travel endeavors.

Neither NASA nor the companies will reveal what percentage of the development costs are being borne by the taxpayers, although NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Bill Gerstenmaier acknowledged at a 2012 House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T) Committee hearing that the government was paying the majority of those costs and did not disagree when asked if it was 80 - 90 percent.

This is important because the moon is the first target in the Vision for Space Exploration, an initiative seeking how to go out beyond Earth's orbit for purposes of human exploration and scientificExploration, an initiative seeking how to go out beyond Earth's orbit for purposes of human exploration and scientificexploration and scientific discovery.

In the «Proving Ground» stage that follows, the space agency will not only conduct experiments and operations in the cislunar space — the space around the moon — it will also develop and test technologies required for human exploration of Mars.

A strong advocate of Mars exploration and a human mission to the Red Planet, Rep. Edwards will discuss the future of the U.S. space program and the need for Congress to increase NASA's budget, including funding for a humans - to - Mars program.

Stafford was closely involved in the Quayle Space Council, chairing the «Synthesis Group,» which wrote a report that laid out various options for sending humans to Mars in response to the first President Bush's 1989 Space Exploration Initiative (SEI).