Sentences with phrase «human space flight»

The whole human space flight program hangs in the balance.

Of course, the future of human space flight is only one of dozens of topics addressed by the two bills.

«We are not ending human space flight,» he said.

The experiment is launching at a time when human space flight seems more remote than ever.

«Some members of Congress may try to use China's progress in human space flight as an excuse to criticize the Obama administration's space policy.

«This possibility, combined with what we already know about how microgravity affects muscles and bones, paints a very bleak future for human space flight unless we start to develop effective countermeasures.»

The president chose the new direction for the U.S. human space flight program Wednesday at a White House meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, according to officials familiar with the discussion.

That gibe earned laughs from the crowd but drew a rebuke from retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles, a member of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee (aka the Augustine Commission), the group that recently advised Obama on NASA's options for manned spaceflight.

«We need more of this kind of experiment, especially with human space flight gaining more traction in recent years,» says Tirumalai.

That's the verdict of a blue - ribbon panel which today released its full report on the future of the U.S. human space flight effort.

The study also calls for the U.S. government to put a higher priority on environmental monitoring from space, urges NASA to create an advanced technology organization, and backs human space flight as a tool for enhancing «U.S. soft power leadership.»

The robotic arm will not revolutionise human space flight on its own, but Altius hopes it will fill a future need for the automatic docking of spacecraft with orbiting fuel stations — and that this ability will in turn make it easier to send astronauts to the moon or beyond (New Scientist, 1 August 2009, p 8).

The NIC Human Space Flight team at Goddard is already planning the communications for Exploration Mission - 1, the first flight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed flight.

China's steps in space The launch of Tiangong 1 is another modest step forward in China's slow - paced but forward - moving human space flight program.

One of the systems that helps to identify such an asteroid is the Near - Earth Object Human Space Flight Accessible Targets Study (NHATS) developed and maintained at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

A retreat from human space flight?

INDIA is about to take one small step towards human space flight.

Still, Ramakrishnan thinks human space flight is a crucial component of any advanced space programme and an important step for India.

The new crew vehicle is designed to be an order of magnitude safer, more reliable, more affordable and more operationally efficient than previous human space flight systems.

The announcement will take place at One World Observatory in New York at 12 pm EDT, a day that also marks the 55th anniversary of the first ever human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Climate change legislation advances; FY 2010 budget proposal backs more increases for R&D; NIH releases guidelines for stem cell research; NASA to review human space flight activities

«It's not clear to me what the future for America in human space flight is,» says Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.

Instead, it has given ISRO $ 36 million for the development of critical technologies for human space flight.

The budget also calls for the agency to provide for the medical monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment of both physical and psychological disorders associated with human space flight, and includes a section focusing on improving IT and cybersecurity efforts.

He did say that the panel is mulling over what role commercial launchers and potential foreign partners might play in a future human space flight effort.

After a brief down period following the Apollo missions, NASA re-entered the realm of human space flight with the Shuttle Program.

But former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine, who chaired a blue - ribbon panel that in 2009 reviewed NASA's human space flight plans, defended the change in course.

Times have changed, says Norman Augustine, the retired aerospace executive who is chairing a blue - ribbon panel examining alternative futures for the U.S. human space flight effort.

The human space flight program will get $ 58 million in 2009, an 84 % increase over last year, even as a proposal to launch two astronauts into a 400 kilometer low Earth orbit after 2017 awaits formal government approval.

Some smaller space tech start - ups are seeking to make a profit from other opportunities in the post-shuttle era of human space flight.

ISRO is seeking $ 2.5 billion from the government for a human space flight program; officials say that astronauts could be sent into space 7 years after final approval is given.

Now a curious calm has fallen on these formidable beasts — the engines from the recently retired space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour — as they await a new role in human space flight.

This month, Norman Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin, agreed to lead a 90 - day review of NASA's human space flight program.

Although that panel suggested a $ 3 billion boost to NASA's $ 18.7 - billion - a-year budget in order to take a firm next step in human space flight, Obama's support for a $ 1 billion bump next year represents a major coup for the agency given the ballooning deficit and the continuing recession.

«This budget ignores the human space flight priorities outlined by Congress last year,» congressman Peter Olson (Republican, Texas) posted on his web site after the budget's release.

The panel convened by order of the White House to assess NASA's plans for the future of human space flight — including the project to send people back to the moon...

Waiting for another Challenger disaster is no way to plan the future of human space flight, says Logsdon.

It is the first study to perform a thorough investigation of NEA accessibility for human space flight and the only automated accessibility monitoring system of its kind in the world.

Experts agree that having conquered orbit and the Moon, the next target destination for a human space flight is the planet Mars.

«To better understand the universe, I started becoming interested in what I call the architecture of science,» says Leah Beeferman, whose largely abstract drawings and animations find inspiration in «structures and instruments» rather than in human space flight.

«NASA's primary purpose is human space exploration and directing NASA funds to study global warming undermines our ability to maintain our competitive edge in human space flight,» said Republican Congressman Bill Posey last month.