Sentences with phrase «for suborbital flights»

But for suborbital flight I think it will be better if the pictures you see are pictures of you watching, documenting your experience.

However, for the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious.

Not exact matches

For years Chakrabarti and his colleagues have been pursuing a middle way between the laboratory and orbit, using NASA funding to conduct low - cost test flights of these advanced optics technologies with small suborbital rockets and high - altitude balloons that reach the edge of outer space.

Chakrabarti's suborbital rocket flights were made possible through NASA funding, as was the bulk of recent progress in high - performance coronagraphs for space telescopes.

Virgin Galactic's suborbital tourism flights may not make it to the launchpad in time for this year's summer vacation, but there are plenty of places to commune with the cosmos from the comfort of Earth (and for less than $ 200,000).

«Anytime you do research and development, there's a cost associated with it,» says Ian Murphy, director of media relations for the X Prize Foundation, which rewarded the first private manned suborbital flight.

The HOPE Training Program provides an opportunity for a team of early - entry NASA employees to propose, design, develop, build and launch a suborbital flight project over the course of 18 months.

The SpaceShipOne flights paved the way for the construction of a fleet of commercial suborbital spacecraft for Virgin Galactic, an offshoot of Richard Branson's Virgin Group.

Two commercial suborbital launches scheduled for late last week, one a test flight of an orbital launch vehicle and the other of a suborbital research vehicle, have been postponed.

NASA has made a variety of flight and suborbital opportunities available to the astronomy community along with grants for data analysis and theoretical studies.

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), in Wallops Island, Virginia, leads technical and scientific reviews for the 47 teams planning to fly on suborbital and orbital vehicle platforms, such as CubeSats, aircraft, sounding rockets, and balloons.

«To formulate a regime for licensing UK companies» space tourism activities,... BNSC will be looking at proposals over the next few months and asking «stakeholders, which could be space law firms, insurance companies and relevant government departments, their views on space tourism for the manned suborbital flight licensing system it thinks it will need under the UK's Outer Space Act, which became law in 1986.»»