Sentences with phrase «human space program»

In contrast, India's human space program has been cut by one - third, to $ 25 million.

The much - ballyhooed report on the future of the U.S. human space program was submitted today to the White House.

Sirangelo hopes that the Dream Chaser will live up to its name, inspiring a new generation of explorers let down by the years of drift in NASA's human space program.

By adapting ideas from robotic planetary exploration, the human space program could get astronauts to asteroids and Mars cheaply and quickly

Not exact matches

They're typically smaller than rockets that launch satellites and people into space, but structurally, the missiles aren't too different — which is why militaries pay close attention to countries that develop human - spaceflight programs.

Other spaceflight companies, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Sierra Nevada and Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin, are variously developing new spacecraft designed to carry humans into orbital space as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP).

The Space Constellation Program, which was conceived by former U.S. President George W. Bush, aimed at returning humans to the moon after the initial Apollo mission in the 1960s and 1970s.

The directive I am signing today will refocus America's space program on human exploration and discovery... This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint.

Ever since President George W. Bush's decision to retire the space shuttles in the aftermath 2003's Columbia disaster, NASA's human spaceflight program has been adrift.

Griffin told Congress in 2003, «The proper goal of a publicly funded space program is to enable the human settlement of the solar system.»

Once again, NASA's human space - flight program is looking for a destination.

It's not reasonable to expect that we can do a sustained exploratory program without the capability of testing systems and studying human adaptation to space in low Earth orbit.

Entrants share an original handmade item or work of art inspired by NASA and NASA's programs, such as the Space Shuttle Program and human spaceflight, aeronautics, science and exploration of the universe.

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.

Buttke is interested in using public interest in personal health as a way to increase support for public green space, and enhancing public understanding of how human actions can drive infectious disease spread through a variety of avenues including school programs, websites, and smart phone apps.

In addition, NASA and the Sloan Foundation recently partnered on a program to support research on the microbiome of the built environment, or the microbial ecosystem of human - made environments — in this case, the space station.

In classic NASA style, Martin hedges his bets when discussing the agency's human - exploration plans: «Our strategy is to build a very sustainable program where people are routinely going into deep space.

There is no indication China's human space flight program is motivated by the pursuit of military objectives, but even if it is, space professionals in the United States and Russia already know it is a fool's errand,» Kulacki said.

«What we have tried to do is to provide a safe space for a presentation,» said Shirley Malcom, director of AAAS Education and Human Resources Programs.

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.

Britain has a long - standing policy of avoiding any programs of the European Space Agency that involve human spaceflight, focusing its efforts on robotic science missions, earth observation, and the commercial exploitation of sSpace Agency that involve human spaceflight, focusing its efforts on robotic science missions, earth observation, and the commercial exploitation of spacespace.

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.

Part of President Obama's FY 2014 budget request for NASA, the asteroid initiative capitalizes on activities across the agency's human exploration, space technology and science programs.

Second, the space agency needs to respect the firewall between robotic missions and human missions, because the goals of these two wings of the space program are, for now, so distinct.

It could allow us to program computers with human capabilities, helping them become more clever than HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey and C - 3PO in Star Wars.

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.

We were spurred into action when the Augustine commission, a blue - ribbon panel that President Barack Obama set up earlier that year to review the space shuttle and its intended successor, reported that «the U.S. human spaceflight program appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory.»

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 commercial crew program — subsidies for companies like SpaceX to develop privately owned, human - rated rockets — would get $ 805 million, while the agency would spend $ 2.051 billion on its own rocket, the Space Launch System, a lumbering, and delayed, heavy - lift vehicle that will not see its first launch until the end of 2018.

NASA ended its space shuttle program in 2011, in part to focus on other goals such as putting humans in deep space and on Mars.

The invitation - only Pioneering Space National Summit, held in February in Washington, D.C., yielded a declaration that «the long - term goal of the human spaceflight and exploration program of the United States is to expand permanent human presence beyond low - Earth orbit and to do so in a way that will enable human settlement and a thriving space economy.&rSpace National Summit, held in February in Washington, D.C., yielded a declaration that «the long - term goal of the human spaceflight and exploration program of the United States is to expand permanent human presence beyond low - Earth orbit and to do so in a way that will enable human settlement and a thriving space economy.&rspace economy.»

And basically it's all set up ahead of time and it runs programs for each and every space, so the rain forest is different than the deserts, the deserts are different than the highlands, the lowlands and then there is also the whole zone for the human — you know, human visitors.

NASA's Project Mercury was the United States» first human - in - space program.

Late yesterday the agency announced that its proposed Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), which is intended to take humans to asteroids and eventually to Mars, will be virtually identical in design to Orion, a space capsule that was being developed under the Bush Administration's Constellation program.

The Soviet space program was supposed to be a vision in which science, Communist ideology, and dreams worked together in an attempt to break loose from the dystopian human condition.

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.

To keep the International Space Station aloft past 2016 (the program's premature end date) and maintain a viable human space exploration program, NASA will have to scrape up another $ 3 billion per year — hard to imagine in a time of trillion - dollar defiSpace Station aloft past 2016 (the program's premature end date) and maintain a viable human space exploration program, NASA will have to scrape up another $ 3 billion per year — hard to imagine in a time of trillion - dollar defispace exploration program, NASA will have to scrape up another $ 3 billion per year — hard to imagine in a time of trillion - dollar deficits.

Perhaps the most urgent space issue our nation faces in the next few years is the human spaceflight gap between the retirement of the Space Shuttle and the start of Constellation Program operatspace issue our nation faces in the next few years is the human spaceflight gap between the retirement of the Space Shuttle and the start of Constellation Program operatSpace Shuttle and the start of Constellation Program operations.

«As interest in space travel grows — for both research and commercial aims — it is increasingly important to understand the effect a microgravity environment can have on the human heart for both the traveler and their potential future children,» said Karen Ocorr, Ph.D., assistant professor of the Development, Aging and Regeneration Program at SBP.

The letter from the Coalition for Space Exploration thanks the committee for its support of human and robotic exploration programs (specifically mentioning the James Webb Space Telescope as an «exploration science mission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] in 2018.

The report, Pathways to Exploration — Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (Human Space Exploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).

The Lockheed Martin Orion program office is located in Houston, Texas, co-located with NASA's Johnson Space Center, providing support in the areas of program management, requirements development, software development, avionics, human factors, and system qualification testing.

The Commercial Crew Program, building on the success of NASA's commercial cargo program, has been working to end the gap in the United States» domestic access to space, which will end up being more than seven years by the time the first human flightsProgram, building on the success of NASA's commercial cargo program, has been working to end the gap in the United States» domestic access to space, which will end up being more than seven years by the time the first human flightsprogram, has been working to end the gap in the United States» domestic access to space, which will end up being more than seven years by the time the first human flights occur.

A strong advocate of Mars exploration and a human mission to the Red Planet, Rep. Edwards will discuss the future of the U.S. space program and the need for Congress to increase NASA's budget, including funding for a humans - to - Mars program.

The space - station program provides us a robust framework for international collaboration that enables us to realize tremendous returns from such an experience,» Michael Barratt, program manager for NASA's Human Research Program at the Johnson Space Center, said in a statespace - station program provides us a robust framework for international collaboration that enables us to realize tremendous returns from such an experience,» Michael Barratt, program manager for NASA's Human Research Program at the Johnson Space Center, said in a staprogram provides us a robust framework for international collaboration that enables us to realize tremendous returns from such an experience,» Michael Barratt, program manager for NASA's Human Research Program at the Johnson Space Center, said in a staprogram manager for NASA's Human Research Program at the Johnson Space Center, said in a staProgram at the Johnson Space Center, said in a stateSpace Center, said in a statement.

While the retirement of the Space Transport System isn't in itself a surprise or mistake, the fact that it isn't being replaced by with another government - funded program could be disastrous for society, science, and human endeavor.

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.

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing at 10:00 am ET this morning is expected to provide another opportunity to address the future of the U.S. civil space program, both human and robSpace, and Technology Committee hearing at 10:00 am ET this morning is expected to provide another opportunity to address the future of the U.S. civil space program, both human and robspace program, both human and robotic.

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 current chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Competitiveness, Cruz says NASA's human space exploration program is a national priority that deserves congressional supSpace, and Competitiveness, Cruz says NASA's human space exploration program is a national priority that deserves congressional supspace exploration program is a national priority that deserves congressional support.