Sentences with phrase «it in their space shuttle»

Not to mention Skylab and a major role in the Space Shuttle.

You wouldn't get me up in a space shuttle if the arrogance of these educated commie committee members is any indication of their judgments if the safety of getting back is in question.

She became an astronaut in 1977 and flew in space shuttle missions in 1983 and 1984.

Instead, for the past three decades we've been relegated to nothing more than trips to low Earth orbit in space shuttles and a space station going around in circles growing plants and taking pictures of the weather.

«You can't do that in the space shuttle,» he says.

Logistics aside, it costs about $ 5,000 per kilogram (2.2 pounds) to ship water in a space shuttle.

As a possible fallback plan, Shannon said he had asked three NASA employees in the space shuttle programme to study a potentially cheaper alternative, called the Heavy Lift Vehicle.

In a space shuttle orbiting at five miles per second, for example, the period between sunset and the time any vulcanoids would dip below the rim of the Earth can be measured in seconds.

There being no privacy in the space shuttle or the International Space Station, that is likely true.

Space Shuttle Atlantis was the fourth operational shuttle built and is one of the three currently operational spacecraft in the Space Shuttle fleet.

Dr. Harold (Hal) H. Doiron is a former NASA scientist who helped successfully eliminate certain stabilization issues in the space shuttle design.

It is used by NASA to purify water in the space shuttle.

The other astronauts disappear completely for a chunk in the middle and it's kind of jarring when they show back up — there's not a ton of urgency in the space shuttle scenes, but it's not nearly as out of whack as the plot imbalance in Interstellar.

There are also those GM features, such as OnStar, which can include a smartphone app to let you operate the vehicle with your phone, while you're riding in the space shuttle.

But above 4000 rpm, the boost comes on with a bang, and your body gets buried into the seat as if you were an astronaut in the space shuttle on blastoff.

I also looked at an 08 Accord VG w / nav and the controls in the thing made me feel like I should have gotten training in the space shuttle.

Starbound begins with you fleeing your homeworld in a space shuttle, just as it's destroyed by an unknown enemy.

Dr. Harold (Hal) H. Doiron is a former NASA scientist who helped successfully eliminate certain stabilization issues in the space shuttle design.

Popular personal lubricant Astroglide was, as its name implies, invented in relation to the space program; it was discovered by a chemist looking for a substance that would purge oil from the anhydrous ammonia used in the space shuttle's cooling system.

Not exact matches

A single Space Shuttle launch costs $ 450 million and places human lives in jeopardy.

However, the agency takes things to the next level by animating things like shuttle take - offs, planets in rotation and shots from space.

Because in»69 we were able to go to the moon, and the space shuttle could get to low - earth orbit, and then obviously the space shuttle got retired, but that trend line is down to zero.

In 1992, she became the first African American woman to travel to space as a crew member on board the Space Shuttle Endespace as a crew member on board the Space Shuttle EndeSpace Shuttle Endeavor.

Thirsk visited the void twice, including 17 days as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1996, and six months aboard the International Space Station last space shuttle Columbia in 1996, and six months aboard the International Space Station last Space Station last year.

In news interviews and testimony to the presidential commission that investigated the accident, he warned that space shuttles would continue to reveal defects.

Astronauts of the space - shuttle era would work regularly in space to maintain satellites as well as construct and maintain the International Space Station (space - shuttle era would work regularly in space to maintain satellites as well as construct and maintain the International Space Station (space to maintain satellites as well as construct and maintain the International Space Station (Space Station (ISS).

In 1998, he became the oldest person to fly in space when, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, he flew on the space shuttle DiscoverIn 1998, he became the oldest person to fly in space when, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, he flew on the space shuttle Discoverin space when, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, he flew on the space shuttle Discovery.

For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer.

Look at our space shuttle program, which lost two of its four primary vehicles, and two full crews, in the pursuit of science.

In celebration of the Fourth of July, the company posted a photo of the Challenger space shuttle exploding in midaiIn celebration of the Fourth of July, the company posted a photo of the Challenger space shuttle exploding in midaiin midair.

Russian flights are now the only way to get to the ISS since the United States retired its space shuttle in 2011.

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 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 Space Race.

These results came from the space - based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, sent to the International Space Station in May, 2011 on the space shuttle Endespace - based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, sent to the International Space Station in May, 2011 on the space shuttle EndeSpace Station in May, 2011 on the space shuttle Endespace shuttle Endeavor.

U.S. astronauts have been riding Russian rockets ever since NASA's space shuttles retired in 2011.

«That makes it practical to refuel them in space and use them for other purposes, or simply use them as a shuttle to run down and grab a spacecraft that you might be so heavy you could only get it to [low - Earth orbit], and then take it literally anywhere else in the solar system,» Bruno added.

For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer — an artifact that ultimately helped explain how the deadly incident happened.

«It's merely an adventure trip,» says Tom Jones, a former astronaut who flew in four space shuttle missions throughout his career with NASA.

Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg sketched out a Jetsons - like future at a conference Tuesday, envisioning a commercial space - travel market with dozens of destinations orbiting the Earth and hypersonic aircraft shuttling travelers between continents in two hours or less.

For example, a space rocket designer might want to consider the risk of a one - time failure in a specific reusable rocket booster seal, which was the cause of the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986.

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

In 2008, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft won the NASA contract to provide a commercial replacement for the cargo transport function of the Space Shuttle, which retired in 201In 2008, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft won the NASA contract to provide a commercial replacement for the cargo transport function of the Space Shuttle, which retired in 201in 2011.

1986 began in tragedy, with the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28th, just 73 seconds after takeoff.

in a room for billions of years, that chance would bring together a shuttle or space telescope?

The arc would be a space shuttle naturally, and the parting of the Red Sea would be in 3D.

The space shuttle Discovery has made its final voyage atop a 747 — to the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.

In comparison, the main space shuttle orbiter has a maximum landing weight of 230,000 pounds.

Though plagued by cost overruns, and a ghastly blunder in manufacturing the main mirror that had to be corrected by a Space Shuttle mission in December 1993 (which, essentially, put corrective eyeglasses on the telescope), the....

why is it we did not have the Space Shuttle in 1780?

I was in an engineering class the first time I watched the tragic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

I heard one of their shows a while back talking about the retirement of the Space Shuttle, and how its display in museums will inspire other kids to «reach for the stars».