Sentences with phrase «human spaceflight systems»

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.

Not exact matches

Air - recycling systems that can reliably scrub carbon dioxide and provide enough oxygen for humans during a long - duration spaceflight (the flight to Mars takes nine months).

And then there's also all the research about human responses to spaceflight — I consider that exploration system testing, too.

Alien Life, Human Spaceflight, New Planets, the Solar System, The Big Bang, Cosmology, Dark Matter, String Theory, and more.

Boeing is one of three American companies working with CCP to develop safe, reliable and cost - effective crew transportation systems during NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which is intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers.

Satellite communications, along with orbiting weather and GPS systems, are so widespread now that consumers largely take them for granted, whereas human spaceflight, limited to low Earth orbit, rarely gets a degree of attention even close to that on the night before Christmas 1968.

They stated that the replacement system should be designed solely for human access to low earth orbit, because a vehicle with more ambitious goals (i.e. BEO human spaceflight) would certainly fail because the nation was not willing to provide the money it would require.

What the CAIB actually said was that Shuttle COULD continue to fly safely until a replacement system for human spaceflight was operational.

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.

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.

This human microbiome includes opportunistic pathogens, microbes that do not normally cause disease in a healthy person but can provoke an infection when the person's immune system is suppressed, a concern known to occur during spaceflight.

During her 2008 campaign Clinton said she was «committed to a space exploration program that involves robust human spaceflight to complete the Space Station and later human missions, expanded robotic spaceflight probes of our solar system leading to future human exploration, and enhanced space science activities.»

NASA's Commercial Crew Program relied on years of human spaceflight experience to develop the requirements needed to ensure transportation systems are qualified to fly astronauts.

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.

The founding Executive Director of the Planetary Society has just written «Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars,» an optimistic view of humanity's future in the solar system and beyond.

It contains comprehensive sections on: - The Sun, Planets, and Dwarf Planets; - Information about their moons; - Other Bodies in the Solar System; - Human Spaceflight; - Timeline of Discovery; The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).