Sentences with phrase «future human spaceflight»

For her part, Magnus's main point was that the United States needs a comprehensive national space strategy upon which which it can make decisions about the best roles for the U.S. government, international partners, and the private sector in future human spaceflight.

The Augustine committee has been asked to present an array of options in its final report, rather than endorse a single plan for NASA's future human spaceflight activities.

Not exact matches

During spaceflights, and in future habitats on the Moon or Mars, humans are or will be exposed to a condition of «microgravity,» in other words to a gravitational field much smaller compared to that present on Earth.

[Future Visions of Human Spaceflight]

One aftereffect of 9/11 continues to shape the future of NASA and human spaceflight, Johnson - Freese said.

That explains why the Obama administration chose Augustine to head a commission on the future of NASA's human spaceflight program — and why the space agency was so shaken by his conclusion.

The future of the human spaceflight program was the focus of the hearing, although the rest of NASA's portfolio (aeronautics, space technology, earth and space science) was also discussed.

A common theme was the Obama Administration's FY2013 budget request for the future of the human spaceflight program and what many see as a competition between commercial crew services to the International Space Station (ISS) and a NASA - developed system to take astronauts further into the solar system.

The all - inclusive annual ASE Planetary Congress, held in a different host country each year, has a long history as the premier forum for astronauts and cosmonauts from all spacefaring nations to meet and exchange information about their respective space agencies, human spaceflight operations and future plans for exploration beyond low earth orbit.

While clearly a concern of these two authorization committees, the future of the human spaceflight program obviously was center stage.

During her 2008 campaign Clinton said she was «committed to a space exploration program that involves robust human spaceflight to complete the Space Station and later human missions, expanded robotic spaceflight probes of our solar system leading to future human exploration, and enhanced space science activities.»

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The founding Executive Director of the Planetary Society has just written «Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars,» an optimistic view of humanity's future in the solar system and beyond.

There's a rich discussion of her pioneering achievements under way on Twitter, where the science and space journalist Miles O'Brien said «she is to the shuttle era what Neil Armstrong is to Apollo» and noted her participation on NASA panels on the destruction of the Challenger and Columbia shuttles and the future of human spaceflight.