Sentences with phrase «humans beyond earth»

Ares and Orion will not have wings and will not be reusable, but they will be designed to carry humans beyond Earth's orbit, as part of NASA's planned return to the moon.

Unless we are sending humans beyond Earth orbit, it is hard to justify why the humans are there unless they want to be there for the experience: adventure travelers, global space travelers — you might call them tourists.

The largest increase would go to developing a rocket capable of taking humans beyond Earth orbit; the Constellation project would more than double, to $ 1.12 billion in 2006.

Even after the Falcon Heavy launches, the Saturn V will remain the tallest and most powerful rocket ever, and the only one to help carry humans beyond Earth's orbit.

Not exact matches

From a technical standpoint, there's little holding NASA and private industry back from an era in which humans move freely between Earth and orbit or orbit and points beyond, Greason said.

«From a standing start 240 years ago — a span of time less than triple my days on earth — Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers.»

«From a standing start 240 years ago — a span of time less than triple my days on earth — Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers -LSB-...]

In 2008, the Vatican's official newspaper discussed the possibility that the universe could contain intelligent life beyond Earth, and that aliens would be «our brothers» and «children of God» as much as human beings are.

A possible real connection with the animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation and task of developing to his perfection from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.

But this was a dim and vague affair, presumably taken to be a way in which the «spirit» breathed into human life when God shaped the «dust of the earth,» as the legend in Genesis tells the story, would never be utterly destroyed — after all, it had been breathed by God and hence must be indestructible even if largely irrelevant to whatever the future, beyond death, held for men and women.

She is the Mystical Body of Christ; at the same time a visible society instituted with hierarchical organs, and a spiritual community; the Church on earth, the pilgrim People of God here below, and the Church filled with heavenly blessings; the germ and the first fruits of the Kingdom of God, through which the work and the sufferings of Redemption are continued throughout human history, and which looks for its perfect accomplishment beyond time in glory.

Those who do not believe in God or Christ must have never thought about the universe, its order and continued existance, or thought about the human body and all it's functions and enjoyed a new born baby, or thought about the earth and how it continues to show proof that God did in fact create it like described in Genisis, or thought about hundreds of other examples that prove beyond a doubt that God made all this happen and keeps it operating daily!!!! The only being that messed some of it up is people and that is why God gave us Christ to bring us out of our depraved state and back to the proper relationship with HIM.

Whether this future is conceived as eternal life for the individual, or a new heaven and a new earth for mankind, or as the conquest of evil in or beyond human history, the trajectory is toward the future, the eschaton.

Some futurists envision among alternative prospects a world devastated by thermo - nuclear war, a vastly overcrowded, hungry population existing in misery, and a human race scratching in the earth with crude instruments because the raw materials necessary for an industrial technology have been exhausted beyond replacement.

Presently we are moving beyond any religious expression so far known to the human into a meta - religious age, that seems to be a new comprehensive context for all religions... The natural world itself is the primary economic reality, the primary educator, the primary governance, the primary technologist, the primary healer, the primary presence of the sacred, the primary moral value... The primary sacred community is the earth community.

On the other hand, the enormity of suffering by creatures on this earth, and perhaps especially the human suffering of the present century, makes it difficult for us to return to any concept of divine omnipotence in which God stands silently and apathetically beyond the world's evolutionary and historical struggles, able but unwilling to intervene.

There is no doubt at all that we find it in the historical Christendom which abandoned the real futurist eschatology of the New Testament and internalized human salvation, at the same time banishing the future of God to a world beyond this one, so that redemption is no longer seen in the kingdom of God, the «new heaven and the new earth,» but now only in the saving of the individual soul for the heaven of the blessed.

So, even if life were now unique to Earth, there would be abundant scope for post human evolution on the Earth or far beyond.»

Should the end be precipitated by human agencies in defiance of the will of God, it would obviously need to come in a realm beyond human existence on this earth.

These men and women accepted suffering because their conviction extended beyond themselves to serve the human community and to take its part on earth.

Speaking at the occasion, Ekweremadu described death as a fulfillment of God's design for man on earth which was inevitable and beyond human remedy.

Humans must solve them all if we want to survive beyond Earth's warm embrace.

According to Collins, «Beyond its importance for astronauts and future space explorers, this research also could lead to novel methods for preventing and treating human disease on Earth.

However, as humans explore beyond Earth's orbit, such strategies may not be sustainable, as de Weck and Ishimatsu write: «As budgets are constrained and destinations are far away from home, a well - planned logistics strategy becomes imperative.»

While previously there was a general understanding that ecotheology surfaced only in the late 1960s, Pihkala found many examples of earlier ecological engagement in the texts contributing to achieving a sustainable human - earth relationship from the early 20th century archives both in Europe and beyond.

Finding irrefutable signs of any life beyond Earth would surely be one of the most revolutionary discoveries for human science and society

Maintaining communications with human - occupied spacecraft is essential for mission success regardless of whether it is in low - Earth orbit or beyond.

«The opportunity comes from an increasingly capable China that might be enjoined in the international effort to create a beachhead in Earth orbit and extend human presence beyond LEO.

NASA also has its own spacecraft, Orion, being built by Lockheed Martin, which aims to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo astronauts last left for the moon in 1972.

Then there's NASA's new focus on spaceships and huge rockets permitting human travel beyond the moon, with a visit to a near - Earth asteroid in the mid-2020s as the first big goal.

«As Earth continues to warm, it may be approaching a critical climate threshold beyond which rapid and potentially permanent — at least on a human time - scale — changes not anticipated by climate models tuned to modern conditions may occur,» the report says.

The invitation - only Pioneering Space National Summit, held in February in Washington, D.C., yielded a declaration that «the long - term goal of the human spaceflight and exploration program of the United States is to expand permanent human presence beyond low - Earth orbit and to do so in a way that will enable human settlement and a thriving space economy.»

«It seems like the only way we're going to do exciting things in human spaceflight is if commercial companies handle the low - Earth orbit stuff and NASA handles the stuff beyond low - Earth orbit.»

Across the globe, calls are being made for bolder human expansion into space beyond earth orbit.

The report, Pathways to Exploration — Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (Human Space Exploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).

Webb will be stationed at the second Sun - Earth Lagrange Point, an orbit beyond the Moon, further than humans have ever travelled.

NASA's next - generation human - rated spacecraft for missions beyond low - Earth orbit, Orion, is scheduled to make its inaugural test flight in September of this year onboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket.

This is important because the moon is the first target in the Vision for Space Exploration, an initiative seeking how to go out beyond Earth's orbit for purposes of human exploration and scientific discovery.

«The one - year increment will expand the bounds of how we live and work in space and will increase our knowledge regarding the effects of microgravity on humans as we prepare for future missions beyond low - Earth orbit,» said Gerstenmaier.

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.

NASA's MAVEN Mission Spurs Human Planetary Exploration Beyond Near - Earth Orbit forbes.com, Mon., July 29, 2013

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 hearing before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee took place as a new presidential administration is taking shape and many space program advocates worry that decisions might be made that will disrupt the progress NASA has made since 2010 in building systems to take humans beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).

This enables the Agency to dedicate its resources to long - term, high - risk research and development and help establish a permanent human presence beyond low Earth orbit.

Since humans first began to wonder if there was life beyond Earth, one of the first places we hoped to find it was Mars.

At risk of going beyond the theme of this thread, I offer up excerpts from it because I think Orr's review speaks indirectly to the larger issue of how we as humans and as a global society are reacting to the findings of the earth sciences regarding anthropogenic global warming, climate disruption, and their ensuing ecological and socio - economic consequences:

«Together, robotics and humans will pioneer the Red Planet and the solar system to help answer some of humanity's fundamental questions about life beyond Earth.»

Experts remain divided about whether humans have pushed Earth beyond its environmental and climate tipping points, but at least one scientist predicted last month that humans would go extinct within 100 years.

Synopsis: With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy t...

With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.