Sentences with phrase «human spaceflight»

The center has been operational in one form or another since Project Mercury, NASA's first human spaceflight program.

«I am an unabashed supporter of space exploration in general and of human spaceflight in particular,» Griffin told Congress in 2003, when he called for a human return to the moon and a trip to Mars.

Bolden had vowed in prior weeks that NASA's overarching long - term goal remained a manned mission to Mars, and Obama made that official by announcing his proposed timeline for human spaceflight in a series of what he called «specific and achievable milestones.»

Her focus was on ensuring that «in 2020, when ISS will go away, most likely,» the United States does not face another gap in human spaceflight like today.

Despite the publicity on Monday about the FAA - NASA agreement on each agency's roles and responsibilities for ensuring the safety of commercial human spaceflight, the topic got little attention at the hearing.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be hosting a panel discussion on the Augustine Report on human spaceflight on 11 December.

Much of today's discussion focused on the need for the long - term human spaceflight plan required by the bill — a Human Exploration Roadmap.

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.

Additionally, this will be the third orbital launch performed by Russia in 2018 and the first human spaceflight of the year.

ThomasARickhoff on March 6, 2011 @lunhil12 I can not link the page but if you go to the NASA Human Spaceflight Webpage.

Known to Mars Society staff and friends as «Gary», he was a strong advocate of a human mission to the planet Mars, as well as human spaceflight in general.

Shelby has not been shy about expressing his lack of enthusiasm for the commercial crew program, today calling privately funded vehicles a «fiction» that diverts funding from NASA developing human spaceflight capabilities with SLS.

His group also works with NASA to build integrated molecular portraits of genomes, epigenomes, transcriptomes, and metagenomes for astronauts, which help establish the molecular foundations and genetic defenses for enabling long - term human spaceflight.

The budget - busting James Webb Space Telescope could get extra cash from human spaceflight funds

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 space.

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.»

Boeing is on course to reignite American human spaceflight with its CST - 100 Starliner, a 21st century space capsule that will take people to and from low - Earth orbit.

That means the Falcon 9 and Dragon crew capsule will be approved for human spaceflight by NASA before the moon mission takes place.

Discussing his strong concerns with the President's proposal, Mr. Thomas Young, former CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp., said «A fundamental flaw in the proposed human spaceflight program is a commercial crew initiative which abandons the proven methodology I have described.

«We will offer full charters to space agencies who are looking to achieve human spaceflight in orbit for a fraction of the cost — and only pay for what they use.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

As the American human spaceflight program began to build momentum, the nation started experimenting with chimpanzees, which are larger and more closely related to humans than are rhesus, squirrel or other monkeys.

NSBRI mitigated risks inherent to long duration human spaceflight while translating research findings to improve health on Earth.

NOAA will manage the DSCOVR mission, giving advanced warning of approaching solar storms with the potential to cripple electrical grids, disrupt communication systems, throw off GPS navigation, reroute air travel, affect satellite operations and endanger human spaceflight.

The awards cover 22 focus areas ranging from systems supporting human spaceflight to those benefiting more Earthly endeavors.

John Karas, vice president and general manager of human spaceflight at Lockheed Martin, recently declared, «I don't think there is a business case for us.»

Griffin has described the shift of money as a «speed bump,» a temporary measure to get human spaceflight back on course.

Soon that shall change, many advocates of human spaceflight believe, through a hybrid of new initiatives by Pres. Donald Trump's administration as well as commercial efforts led by private industry.

The idea is that burdensome regulations might stifle the nascent commercial human spaceflight industry and the government should wait to see how the business develops to better assess its risks before imposing stronger safety requirements.

It has been clear since human spaceflight began that astronauts are susceptible to illness.

He follows and reports on human spaceflight progress, as well as the progress of the LightSail solar sail, which is about a year from its next flight.

was the last surviving member of the «Mercury Seven,» the group of astronauts that pioneered human spaceflight for NASA

The NASTAR center is (to date) the only private training facility to meet FAA safety regulations for both orbital and suborbital human spaceflight, which has made them a de facto partner for commercial space companies like Virgin Galacticand Astronauts 4 Hire.

So that's the sixth: this opportunity to train up and fly new astronauts and help more countries build human spaceflight programs.

Grunsfeld served for many years as an astronaut within NASA's human spaceflight division, and flew on five shuttle missions.

By boosting our understanding of long - distance human spaceflight, an asteroid trip would provide a valuable warm - up for a crewed visit to the Red Planet.

Hundreds of thousands of pieces of spacecraft, satellites and other equipment from human spaceflight zip around our planet, some travelling faster than the speed of sound.

Money will be a big issue: the proposed price tag would re-direct about 1 per cent of NASA's current annual budget to Inspiration Mars, but funding is already so tight that the Congressional Budget Office has proposed cutting human spaceflight altogether.

«Human spaceflight safety is our chief concern,» Lt. Gen. Jay Raymond, JFCC Space and 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) Commander, said in a statement.

SpaceX is working to get Dragon certified, while Boeing and the Sierra Nevada Corporation have their own human spaceflight projects.

Human spaceflight researchers believe crew autonomy will be critical on a Mars mission, mostly because of the hundreds of millions of miles that will delay communications.

The United States could «enhance [its] soft power leadership by inviting emerging economic powers to join with us in human spaceflight adventures.»

Human spaceflight gains $ 5.2 billion, but its situation is hardly to be envied either.

«Our new national strategy is all about making the most of space: exploiting the unique opportunities for growth which human spaceflight and associated research programmes can offer.

Scientists have a wide range of attitudes toward human spaceflight.

«We didn't know what the NEA - accessibility landscape for human spaceflight really looked like until the NHATS was created,» said Brent Barbee of NASA Goddard, NHATS project lead.