Sentences with phrase «for space shuttle missions»

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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.

In 2011 during its penultimate mission the Space Shuttle Endeavour delivered three to the International Space Station (ISS), where they were mounted outside for three years as part of a materials - science experiment.

The shuttle mission this weekend will also deploy the European Space Agency's Eureca satellite, the world's first reusable satellite for studying the effects of microgravity (see «Making the most of weightlessness», New Scientist, 11 July).

Just as China's naval aircraft carrier was launched soon after they criticized the U.S. for spending too much on defense, undertaking the Tiangong / Shenzhou 8 mission at about the same time as the U.S. space shuttle program ends «is a powerful political signal that China is ascendant, and the U.S. is descending,» Cheng said.

For Searfoss, whose first shuttle mission came in 1993, «the absolute best part of flying in space was the view, and you're going to be riding right up front next to the pilot,» he said.

For many people, the shuttle's recent missions, which were focused mainly on assembly of the International Space Station (ISS), had become routine.

After being grounded for two - and - a-half years following the destruction of Columbia, space shuttle Discovery returned to the skies in July 2005 on a mission to the ISS.

The shuttle is now busy building the international space station, however, and it may be tough to reserve one to reclaim a defunct satellite as well as find the $ 50 million needed for such a mission.

In a discovery with implications for long - term spaceflight and future missions to Mars, a researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has found that mice flown aboard the space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth with early signs of liver disease.

NASA is running a contest to select two new wake - up songs for the shuttle crew during the STS - 134 mission: Space rock: Vote for the new NASA wake - up song

«Only after a particular camera on the Hubble Space Telescope had been repaired on the last servicing mission by the Space Shuttle did we gain the sensitivity to really search for these plumes.»

As the Shuttle - Mir program draws to a close, a veteran NASA astronaut reflects on her mission on board the Russian spacecraft and the implications for the International Space Station

The U.S. continued to launch animals for scientific experiments but increasingly concentrated on smaller creatures such as mice and insects, which are easier to care for and take up much less space (although two squirrel monkeys did ride on the space shuttle Challenger's STS -51-B mission in April - May 1985.)

With a little more than a year to go before U.S. astronauts launch aboard a U.S. - built spacecraft, and from U.S. soil, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era, NASA has ordered its second Post-Certification Mission (PCM) from SpaceX.

The Space Shuttle is only designed for low Earth orbit missions.

Finally, in December 1993, seven men aboard the space shuttle Endeavour rocketed into space for the HST's first servicing mission.

Ferguson's last spacecraft, NASA's space shuttle Atlantis, already was built and had achieved veteran spaceflight status years before «Fergie», as he is known, climbed into the commander's seat for the last of the shuttle missions in 2011.

I do think that our program has been stuck for a while — that the space shuttle mission did not inspire the imagination of the public — that much of the experimentation that was done could have been conducted not necessarily with manned flights.

A poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming sci - fi adventure The Space Between Us, which is directed by Peter Chelsom and stars Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield, Carla Gugino and Britt Robertson; check them out here... In this interplanetary adventure, a space shuttle embarks on the first mission to colonize Mars, only to discover after takeoff that one -LSBSpace Between Us, which is directed by Peter Chelsom and stars Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield, Carla Gugino and Britt Robertson; check them out here... In this interplanetary adventure, a space shuttle embarks on the first mission to colonize Mars, only to discover after takeoff that one -LSBspace shuttle embarks on the first mission to colonize Mars, only to discover after takeoff that one -LSB-...]

Though the May 2009 visit to Hubble by astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis was the last scheduled servicing mission for the orbiting observatory (which is expected to remain in orbit until at least 2014), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has already collected galaxies of data frospace shuttle Atlantis was the last scheduled servicing mission for the orbiting observatory (which is expected to remain in orbit until at least 2014), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has already collected galaxies of data froSpace Administration has already collected galaxies of data from it.

The Council of Chief State School Officers, the group chosen to coordinate the selection of the teacher who will fly on a space - shuttle mission early next year, has named the 114 candidates who will be considered for the journey.

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.

1998 — Dr. Alexander Dunlap (LSU SVM 1989) was alternate payload specialist and ground veterinarian for the STS - 90 Neurolab space shuttle mission flown.

Aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday that it received approval to use repurposed space shuttle parts to build a habitat for a potential manned mission to Mars.

What was true as the Apollo missions headed off for the moon is all the more so now, as the last space shuttle prepares for landing.

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