Sentences with phrase «human spaceflight at»
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.»
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«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»
With so much under review at NASA right now in terms of human spaceflight, are there any other sites on the table that are being looked at for launches?
NASA's space shuttle programme manager John Shannon made the remarks in a presentation to a committee reviewing NASA's human spaceflight plans at the request of the White House and chaired by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine.
«A current stated interim goal of NASA's human spaceflight program is to visit an asteroid by 2025,» said Albert Carnesale, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who chaired the committee that authored the report.
«Spaceflight data is hard to come by; we should remember what's already been done, so we can make the most of new opportunities to do human research in space,» said corresponding author Dr. Virginia Wotring, associate professor of the Center for Space Medicine and pharmacology and chemical biology at Baylor College of Medicine.
Tuck Stebbins, head of the gravitational astrophysics laboratory at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, described the detectors as the «most complex machines humans have ever built.»
«The SHERLOC instrument is a valuable opportunity to prepare for human spaceflight as well as to perform fundamental scientific investigations of the Martian surface,» said Marc Fries, a SHERLOC co-investigator and curator of extraterrestrial materials at Johnson Space Center.
Let's do everything all at once in the human spaceflight and stay focused on getting to Mars by setting a date.
«The main problem is that we do not have a clear long - term goal for the national human spaceflight program,» said Mike Gruntman, a professor of astronautics at the University of Southern California, to The Christian Science Monitor.
Developing both simultaneously is a «challenge» in the current budgetary environment and we «need to look at these programs supporting each other and, ultimately, the human spaceflight for the nation.»
This week includes the 57th anniversary of the first human spaceflight — Yuri Gagarin's one - orbit ride aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and the 37th anniversary of the first U.S. space shuttle flight — STS - 1 on April 12, 1981, with John Young and Bob Crippen at the controls.