Sentences with phrase «for space shuttle»

Successfully configured, tested, and implemented a comprehensive bar - coded document management system for space shuttle launch and re-entry support systems.

Bose loves to brag about inventing noise cancelling technology for Space Shuttle astronauts years before any other headphone company was considering it.

In the past, the staff at the center had uncovered treasures such as a Barbie doll with a roll of bills worth $ 500.00 stuffed inside, a camera that was designed for the Space Shuttle, an F16 guidance system worth about $ 250,000, and others.

We had a replacement for the space shuttle on the drawing board when the Obama Administration came into office and he canceled it due to so - called funding issues.

Here is the carbon footprint for the space shuttle.

She also switched from physics to engineering and helped to develop a robotic arm for the space shuttle.

Wired's review gives the Kindle 3 a 9 out of 10, saying that «the denser e-ink on the new Kindle is going to make a lot of previous Kindle owners jealous,» and that «Battery life is long enough for space shuttle missions».

He also managed the Flight Integration Office for the Space Shuttle Program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center, and later worked on both the Shuttle - Mir, and International Space Station programs.

In order for a space shuttle to make it into space, it needs to continuously accelerate until it reaches escape velocity.

It may be right, it may be necessary and long overdue, but if the future of the planet depends on the reconstruction of the education system, I fear we should all book our tickets for the space shuttle now.

* NASA builds a new fuel tank for the SPACE SHUTTLE, getting one step closer to liftoff.

«Almostevery rocket on earth except for the space shuttle is thrown away afterone flight.

«Today it costs over a billion dollars for a space shuttle flight,» says Space X founder, Elon Musk.

He had applied for the space shuttle program before he got his citizenship and had been rejected; on this second round, he was summoned to Houston for a battery of interviews and tests.

Those inefficiencies meant that it cost $ 64,000 for the space shuttle to put one kilogram into low - earth orbit (LEO); an elevator, Laubscher calculates, could do it with 17.2 kilowatt - hours of electricity — about two dollars» worth.

She thought about working for NASA like her father, even going so far as to design a fruit - fly experiment for the space shuttle's Get - Away Special program, which allowed schools, clubs, and professional societies to design small experiments to be flown to space.

We went to the park, went to «coffee» each day, had a play date with a friend a few months younger than him (which he LOVED — someone who played WITH him, not telling him what to do every minute like his sister does), watched a movie of his choosing, ate what he asked for at dinner, built space stations and launch pads out of Legos for his Space Shuttle, and read lots of books together.

As a contract negotiator, he worked with team that built lunar excursion modules for NASA to propel ships back to Earth and later the group that helped to build wings for the space shuttle.

More significantly, this is the beginning of the end not just for Hubble but for space shuttles — indeed for the entire American manned space program as currently configured.

The voyage is the end not just for the space shuttles, but for the thousands of NASA shuttle workers who will soon be taking on non-shuttle related jobs within the agency or moving on entirely.

Not exact matches

A mission called STS - 1 — short for Space Transportation System - 1 — was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's space shuttle proSpace Transportation System - 1 — was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's space shuttle prospace shuttle program.

The 22 - lb suit is pretty similar to the space shuttle flight suit, though it's used to protect people who fly inside Russia's Soyuz spacecraft (which NASA pays an increasingly hefty sum to use for its own astronauts» travel to and from the space station).

The suit that astronauts wore during the Space Shuttle program is sometimes called a «pumpkin suit» for its bright orange color.

For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer.

As countdowns go, it may not be as exciting as a Space Shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral or as colorful as a Miss America context, but following the top - five countdown of America's top states for business has its share of suspense.

«That makes it practical to refuel them in space and use them for other purposes, or simply use them as a shuttle to run down and grab a spacecraft that you might be so heavy you could only get it to [low - Earth orbit], and then take it literally anywhere else in the solar system,» Bruno added.

For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer — an artifact that ultimately helped explain how the deadly incident happened.

«The SSMEs were reusable,» Dan Dumbacher, former NASA deputy associated administrator for exploration systems development, said of the space shuttle main engines.

Since the Space Shuttle program was cancelled, NASA has had to rely on Russian rockets to get astronauts into space, something that is very costly for NASA at a whopping $ 80 per Space Shuttle program was cancelled, NASA has had to rely on Russian rockets to get astronauts into space, something that is very costly for NASA at a whopping $ 80 per space, something that is very costly for NASA at a whopping $ 80 per seat.

For example, a space rocket designer might want to consider the risk of a one - time failure in a specific reusable rocket booster seal, which was the cause of the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986.

We were joined by two astronauts for the duration of the event: Space Shuttle pilot Greg Johnson and Korea's first astronaut to the ISS Soyeon Yi.

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

In 2008, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft won the NASA contract to provide a commercial replacement for the cargo transport function of the Space Shuttle, which retired in 2011.

in a room for billions of years, that chance would bring together a shuttle or space telescope?

I literally have designed things that have gone on the Space Shuttle, protects our military, and surveillance systems for those 3 letter organizations.

I heard one of their shows a while back talking about the retirement of the Space Shuttle, and how its display in museums will inspire other kids to «reach for the stars».

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We can make a space shuttle land on a dime after circling the heavens, but we have no cure for the common cold; the strongest athlete can be struck down by an invisible microbe.

The shuttle would ferry astronauts and hardware into orbit for 30 years, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station.

Soon, Conley secured a spot for her nematodes on STS - 107, aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Space shuttle Atlantis will haul supplies and a robotic experiment to the International Space Station for its final flight

This NASA jacket for children features five authentic space program embroidered patches and really fun, miniature space shuttle zipper pulls.

With the shuttles retired, today's space explorers are preparing for Russian rockets, private capsules, and uncertain destinations.

They will also give NASA an opportunity to shake off the missteps that for more than three decades have left us stuck in low Earth orbit with a troubled space shuttle and a largely irrelevant International Space Station — programs that together will have cost roughly $ 250 billion by the time they are paidspace shuttle and a largely irrelevant International Space Station — programs that together will have cost roughly $ 250 billion by the time they are paidSpace Station — programs that together will have cost roughly $ 250 billion by the time they are paid for.

Although no firm figures for carbon dioxide emissions are available for SpaceShipTwo, a single NASA space shuttle launch produces 28 tons of carbon dioxide.

Long before the space shuttle actually existed, it became much more than a machine to bring stuff and people to space, a tool that could be swapped out for a more effective tool.

The space shuttle Endeavor cruised up for a rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, which allowed astronauts to perform some vital repairs and upgrspace shuttle Endeavor cruised up for a rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, which allowed astronauts to perform some vital repairs and upgrSpace Telescope in 1993, which allowed astronauts to perform some vital repairs and upgrades.

The physicists used acoustic waves that had the effect of altering time for the photons — the equivalent of putting Alice and Bob in those opposite - moving space shuttles.

Col. Pamela Melroy, a former NASA astronaut and space shuttle commander, penned an essay about Launch Complex 34 for the book.

Thanks to the new Advanced Camera for Surveys, installed 2 years ago by astronauts during the space shuttle's last servicing mission to Hubble, the telescope can now detect those ancient objects.