Sentences with phrase «human spaceflight by»

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It is important for NASA to learn how bacterial communities that play roles in human health and disease are affected by spaceflight.

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.

Mission: To make possible private spaceflight to Mars, including probes and rovers, leading up to a permanent human colony by 2025.

«We're working right now to take NASA's 50 years of human spaceflight and consolidate that experience into documentation that can be used by these commercial companies.»

Absent a serious effort by the Chinese, Launius doesn't think too many American leaders will be too concerned about increasing American funding for human spaceflight.

The White House set up the committee, chaired by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine, to review NASA's plans for human spaceflight, which are currently focused on returning astronauts to the moon by 2020.

The government's enthusiasm for human spaceflight was no doubt boosted by the selection of Tim Peake, a British Army helicopter pilot, as an ESA astronaut.

The three Penn study authors are also participating with Cognition in a NASA effort reported earlier this year to study the molecular, physiological and psychological effects of spaceflight on the human body by comparing identical twins, evidencing the need for a comprehensive cognitive test battery for spaceflight.

If so, what will the early decades of human spaceflight — represented by Armstrong and Ride — be called?

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.

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.

Let's do everything all at once in the human spaceflight and stay focused on getting to Mars by setting a date.

The Act struck a compromise between allowing the Obama Administration to proceed with its plan to turn crew transportation to low Earth orbit (LEO) over to the private sector and Congress's desire to keep NASA in the human spaceflight business by building «beyond LEO» systems — SLS and Orion — to take astronauts further into space.

Chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz (R - TX), the main theme was how to avoid a disruption in the human spaceflight program when a new President takes office in 2017 as occurred when President Obama cancelled the Constellation program.

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

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