Sentences with phrase «future flight missions»

Chosen technologies will be thoroughly ground - and flight - tested in relevant operating environments — reducing risks to future flight missions, gaining operational heritage, and continuing NASA's long history as a technological leader.

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Several other Canadians are working on concepts for future missions in general that have not yet been manifested for flight.

Adding wings made of glass or other refractive materials in flight would allow astronomers to better steer future space missions, the team reports online today in Nature Photonics.

Thereby, we will be able to reduce the size of systems based on terahertz quantum - cascade lasers in the future — an important point for flight missions such as SOFIA,» Wienold emphasizes.

Norman Augustine, who is chairing a blue - ribbon panel examining alternative futures for the U.S. human space - flight effort, hinted last week that the panel might shy away from advocating an expensive human mission to the moon, Mars, or an asteroid.

And yet ESA struck an optimistic note in its Mars500 press release: «This mission might lack some of the glory and feeling of the real flight, but it is just as tough and will yield a lot of experience for the future.

The Project Mercury astronaut data can be of interest to operators of future commercial space flights as the short duration of the Mercury missions is similar to that of planned future tourist spaceflight opportunities.

Although it didn't make the cut this time, the Science Programme Committee decided to maintain the mission as a possible competitor for a future flight opportunity.

The LXeGRIT balloon flight program and the continuuing R&D on xenon imaging detectors for future missions in highenergy astrophysics is supported by NASA.

One of the programs that helps the FAA fulfill this mission is the Flight Standards Training Needs Assessment (FSTNA) system, which is an application that identifies Flight Standards Services (AFS) training needs for current and future fiscal years.

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Artist Statement Looking to the future of NASA and space flights back to the moon, Mars missions and wherever else the next frontier takes us!

In turn, the synthetic disk - integrated spectra we produce from the GCM will be used as input to a whole planetary system spectral model that emulates observations that candidate future direct imaging exoplanet missions might obtain (see the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Haystacks project).