Sentences with phrase «human space exploration after»

The next step for human space exploration after the International Space Station is to send astronauts on a Near Earth Asteroid by 2025, as planned by NASA.

Not exact matches

Only after the Falcon Heavy is rigorously tested and SpaceX manages to deliver on its promises of cheaper space launches, a return to the moon, and a mission to Mars (or fail to, for that matter) will we be able to say for sure which rocket was the true champion of human space exploration.

Pushing the limits of human exploration has always been risky, yet after each space tragedy, presidents and pundits conclude that the program must go on.

Within the human exploration program, which takes up roughly a quarter of NASA's overall budget, the agency continues to take a two - pronged approach to developing rockets that would return astronauts to space after the retirement of the Space Shuspace after the retirement of the Space ShuSpace Shuttle.

The Apollo program fit into a sweeping vision of human space exploration — sometimes called the «von Braun paradigm» after rocket scientist Wernher von Braun — that included not just lunar expeditions but winged spaceships, orbiting space stations and piloted missions to Mars.

The additional funds would support the administration's directive to reinvigorate human and robotic exploration of Earth's moon and other planets in the solar system but would also come at the expense of several other big - ticket items in NASA's portfolio — namely the International Space Station (ISS) as well as the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), a «flagship» - class mission next in line for launch after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

After a slow start, this film - about a former boy genius (George Clooney) and a current girl genius (Britt Robertson) traveling to a city outside time and space - becomes a delightful and thoughtful exploration of the ways in which the future, the concept and promise of it, function in human life.