Sentences with phrase «for space exploration»

This piece is taken from my own garden, which will provide more fodder for space exploration as the seasons change.

BUT: The senator's legislative involvement with space issues has been negligible, and he has fewer specific programs for space exploration than his opponent.

Musk needs to involve the private sector because he needs help paying for space exploration.

First of all, the high cost of reaching the moon, even if everything happens on time and on budget, may actually drain the enthusiasm for space exploration.

A: Still the most important challenge for space exploration is to get there.

The past few years have been gloomy for space exploration, with missions seemingly more often in the news for having their funding cut than blasting off successfully.

Imagine how the discovery of life outside our solar system would alter our priorities for space exploration and how we view our place in the universe.

Leonard is co-author with Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin of Mission to Mars — My Vision for Space Exploration Frequency about 10 posts per week.

A passion for space exploration is the fuel to an innovative economy, says astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

The DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy develops, manufactures, tests and delivers radioisotope power systems for space exploration and national security missions and maintains responsibility for nuclear safety throughout all aspects of the missions.

NASA is the US government agency responsible for space exploration and designing new technologies to achieve it.

SpaceX, which stands for Space Exploration Technologies, has previously raised money from the Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Valor Equity Partners and Capricorn since its 2002 inception.

Moon Express is the first company in history to contract multiple launches for space exploration missions.

Moon Express is the first company in history to contract multiple launches for space exploration missions.

The US spends more on space exploration than any other country in the world.A big chunk of this investment goes to NASA, the country's leading agency for space exploration.

goals for su bsonic, supersonic and hypersonic flight and for space exploration call for alloys and composites notable for strength, light weight and resistance to heat

Cousteau received a hearty round of applause for this whopper: «We spend 1,000 times more money every year in our federal budget for space exploration than we do to understand our oceans,» «Knowing whether there was ever water on Mars - not critical to surviving on this planet.

It was not until 1957, with the Soviet launch of Sputnik - 1 using an R - 7 rocket — a Soviet ICBM also capable of delivering thermonuclear warheads — that the US government began to consider the use of rockets for space exploration.

SpaceX, which is short for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company.

Blue Origin dabbling into Air Force missions is a slight aberration from its original goal of making it possible for space exploration to become an opportunity for tourism.

«Musk is struggling with the... prosaic mission of assembling a passenger car here on Earth,» The Post's Steven Mufson wrote, comparing Musk's ambitions for space exploration to his earthly ones.

The success of the private company's reusable rockets could be a game - changer for space exploration and weather forecasting: With a price tag of about $ 62 million per rocket, reuse can dramatically bring down the costs of a launch.

«Some parts of Boulby mine are similar to environments we see on Mars, and so we'd like to use Boulby to work out where the best places are to look for signs of ancient life on Mars,» says Charles Cockell, an astrobiologist from Edinburgh University, who heads up the Mars Analogues for Space Exploration project.

«Effectively, «geo - electric sounding from space», this result is a first for space exploration,» he continues.

«For a long time, comet missions did not have pizzazz,» says Benton Clark, chief scientist for space exploration systems at Lockheed Martin, near Denver.

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.»

NASA has the right stuff for space exploration, says Carl Wieman, the Nobelist who President Obama has tapped to oversee the Administration's heightened effort to improve science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.

I wish we had a personality of the status of von Braun arguing the case for space exploration today.

The contest doubled as a fundraiser for space exploration, research and education, charging $ 4.99 for name nominations and 99 cents for votes, and yielded such names as Rakhat and Caleo.

With those concerns in mind, New York City - based Honeybee Robotics is reimagining the drill for space exploration.

This feature means that the muscles can be used in numerous applications at multiple scales, such as miniature surgical devices, wearable robotic exoskeletons, transformable architecture, deep - sea manipulators for research or construction, and large deployable structures for space exploration.

This investigation will not only be beneficial for space exploration, but it will also show how communities on Earth with little to no agricultural land and sunlight can grow edible plants in small spaces at relatively low costs.

Eighteen months after President Barack Obama announced the Administration's new plan for space exploration, NASA has selected a design for an essential component — the new Space Launch System — a powerful, heavy lift rocket that will carry astronauts and cargo beyond low - Earth orbit into deep space.

Previous attempts to generate a public buzz for space exploration have been limited to gimmicky stunts like pizza delivery to space and a failed plan to launch pop star Lance Bass into orbit.

* NASA decided to retire its winged Space Shuttle fleet by 2010 to meet President George W. Bush's vision for space exploration following the 2003 Columbia shuttle tragedy.

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 endeavors.

Jason Crusan, NASA's Director for Advanced Exploration Systems, explained that the agency is funding habitat studies by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK and Bigelow Aerospace through its NASA Space Technology for Space Exploration (NextSTEP) Broad Area Announcement.

The contest is open now and will run until October 15, a chance to contribute to a scale model world for space exploration that, Tibor hopes, will help to promote public interest and funding for future ventures.

«Conceptually simple and romantic, solar sailing is an enchanting technological solution for space exploration.

Dr. Reinsch will discuss the mission of GeneLab within the context of NASA's Space Biology Project and the longer term goals for space exploration.

Plans were hatched on the spot, and if any of them failed, it meant certain disaster for the men, and perhaps a serious setback for the space exploration agenda.

Learn more about the holodeck and the educational programs of the Thornburg Center on the Thornburg Center for Space Exploration website, their blog, or by following Dr. Thornburg on Twitter.

To reinforce the Early Access astronauts on Mars, Bohemia Interactive today released the Power Update for its space exploration and survival sim game, Take On Mars.

Alongside a new teaser trailer, which offers a sneak peek at the manned mission story campaign, Bohemia Interactive today announced the official release date for their space exploration sim game, Take On Mars.

It seems only natural to reach for space exploration experiences like Elite Dangerous, but this is tonally very different and in terms of gameplay far less structured.