Sentences with phrase «human spaceflight plan»

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

Still, committee members and witnesses alike advocated for restoring human missions to the surface of the Moon to NASA's human spaceflight plan.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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 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.

While various new initiatives and goals are being offered as justifications for the Administration's proposed human spaceflight program, the budgetary constraints NASA is facing make it critically important for Congress to determine whether the proposed plan is executable, well defined, and worth doing.

For now, NASA's only official plans for human spaceflight involve sending a crewed capsule, called Orion, around the moon.

The lack of national consensus on NASA's most publicly visible human spaceflight goal along with budget uncertainty has undermined the agency's ability to guide program planning and allocate funding.»

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.

The all - inclusive annual ASE Planetary Congress, held in a different host country each year, has a long history as the premier forum for astronauts and cosmonauts from all spacefaring nations to meet and exchange information about their respective space agencies, human spaceflight operations and future plans for exploration beyond low earth orbit.

The second competition will select a K - 12 teacher from any subject area; applicants will be asked to submit a lesson plan or educational module based on some aspect of human spaceflight.