Sentences with phrase «like space shuttle»

Like the Space Shuttle Challenger's NASA managers, waiting for scientific «proof» of disaster, rather than taking prudent (and economical beneficial) steps to avert disaster, only guarantees that our children will face catastrophic consequences.

He rides like a space shuttle / jet but very smooth.

They worked fine, but any car that has the potential to take off like the space shuttle should have industrial - strength brakes.

Chevrolet's new Cavalier has taken off like the space shuttle.

Album closer Contact is a blustering din of exploding, modular synthesizers and bombastic percussion — almost like a space shuttle reentering Earth's atmosphere, jettisoning stardust and space debris as its thrusters heat up and ignite.

A winged, arrow - shaped spaceship, the Pan American, dart - like space shuttle Orion [a phallic symbol or representation of «sperm»], soars from Earth through space toward the Moon, bound first for Space Station 5 - a wheel - shaped way - station for passengers traveling on to the lunar surface.

SLS like the Space Shuttle will be powered initially by two solid rocket boosters on the sides of the launch vehicle.

Making matters worse, bacteria that have some form of antibiotic resistance seem to thrive in closed space environments like the space shuttle.

XCOR reps said at a press conference Wednesday that its Lynx suborbital spaceship, still in the prototype phase, will be a two - seat (one pilot, one passenger) craft that takes off like an airplane and glides back to Earth like a space shuttle.

The space plane will land on a runway, while the rocket, after delivering its payload, will fly back to the ground like the space shuttle.

Meanwhile, the pilots veer off and take the Astroliner back down to a runway, just like the space shuttle.

Since the end of July, the AUV — which looks something like a space shuttle — has been helping the company hunt down the legendary delta - winged Avro Canada CF - 105 interceptor in the waters of Lake Ontario (see information box).

Like the space shuttles, the Lynx will glide back to Earth by descending in a series of circles.

Not exact matches

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

When he got off the space shuttle, I was there waiting at the hatch, the first thing he said to me when he got off was, «I had no idea what that launch was going to be like.»

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.

now i am not saying that this is conclusive evidence but even the «good book» (esp Job) that depict curious events and physical anomolies surrounding the appearence on «angels» that are a lot like when the space shuttle enters the atmosphere... and who wrestles with an angel, no one..

«It's like comparing the space shuttle to the Wright brothers.»

Perhaps 70, or even 71, home runs, like space - shuttle launches, have lost some of their power to amaze.

We went to the park, went to «coffee» each day, had a play date with a friend a few months younger than him (which he LOVED — someone who played WITH him, not telling him what to do every minute like his sister does), watched a movie of his choosing, ate what he asked for at dinner, built space stations and launch pads out of Legos for his Space Shuttle, and read lots of books togespace stations and launch pads out of Legos for his Space Shuttle, and read lots of books togeSpace Shuttle, and read lots of books together.

She thought about working for NASA like her father, even going so far as to design a fruit - fly experiment for the space shuttle's Get - Away Special program, which allowed schools, clubs, and professional societies to design small experiments to be flown to space.

At this point in history — with moon landings in the distant past, the space shuttle recently retired, and manned missions to Mars decades off — these may seem like mere theoretical concerns.

Because they are often nauseous, always busy, and the food on board their capsules, shuttles and space stations doesn't look, smell or taste like it does on Earth.

Steve: Why don't we discuss a few these things like, for example, the space shuttle which is ending.

She was talking about what it was like to look out from both sides of the space shuttle; as she put it, one window facing towards Earth and one window facing away from everything she knew.

The real money in space travel is still with NASA, and its shuttle is still the only vehicle large enough to carry astronauts like André Kuipers into orbit in comfort.

If that gambit fails, or if ESA simply wants to hedge its bet, Europe might collaborate with Russia on the Clipper, a partially reusable vehicle that looks like a squatter, smaller space shuttle.

I would love to see a regular upload of Nasa Images to a site like Flickr and I think it would really interest 1000s of young people, imagine browsing away and seeing an Image from the space station of a shuttle docking with perhaps a note from one of the astronauts.

A sort of miniature space shuttle, Dream Chaser is based on a plane - like spacecraft that NASA itself designed in the 1980s, inspired by spy photos of a Soviet prototype.

Because Raptor is a staged combustion engine — like the main engines of NASA's now - retired space shuttle fleet — it is expected to be far more efficient than the open - cycle Merlin engines used by the Falcon 9.

Obama proposed jettisoning much of the Constellation program, which Bush set up to build rockets and Apollo - like capsules to replace the space shuttle, and instead paying private companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch astronauts into orbit.

Now his background is in things like [the] space shuttle and figuring out how to keep the space shuttle from flying out of control when it is re-entering atmosphere.

As for his qualifications to ensure the safety of the three new crew vehicles, Nelson asked how he would have handled a situation like the day the space shuttle Challenger was launched on January 28, 1986.

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And it stressed the scientific value of manned space flight, with each Shuttle mission now bespangled in a dazzling assortment of scientific experiments, like so many talismans against budget reduction.

You have to keep in mind that coffee is just «1» nutrient or «tool» that can be beneficial but coffee alone is not the answer to all thyroid issues, Parkinson's, etc... That would be like trying to build the space shuttle with just a screwdriver.

When you add in the use of 3 - D technology that is also found in NASA's space shuttles, the creation of multi-layered puppets which are created with a skin - like composition and feature arguably the most detail of any stop - motion puppets ever created, the technical mastery on display sounds simply too good to be true.

Have we seen the same sort of attitudes over other amazing achievements like the space stations, the Mars rovers, and shuttle missions?

Like screwdrivers or space shuttles, high - tech hardware and software are most useful when used for clearly defined purposes.

JAMES - Journey Assistance and Mapping Exploration System - sounds like something one might find in the cockpit of a space shuttle.

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.

To say the vehicle requires a large turning radius is like saying the space shuttle needs a long landing strip.

Elinor Smith took her first flight at age 6, became a licensed pilot at 16, was voted «Best Woman Pilot in America» over the likes of Amelia Earhart, went on to be a test pilot, and, at age 89, «flew» NASA's space - shuttle simulator.

Like I said, it's space shuttles vs biplanes

Calling anyone who can't do that an «amateur» is like calling any pilot who can't fly a space shuttle a novice.

The owner is very friendly and can help you with simple requests like arranging your airport shuttle service for a fee or avail the onsite parking space for free.

Like trying to predict how a Space Shuttle will perform by throwing lawn darts.

When we first saw De Maria Design's Redondo Beach House, we took a pass - it just didn't look like «Seventy percent of the building is efficiently created / assembled in a controlled shop environment» when the pictures show empty boxes and conventional construction, insulated with «ceramic - based insulation [that] is the same as a product used on NASA's Space Shuttle.»

«It's like having your Uber driver park the space shuttle,» Messina quipped on Friday night during an interview with MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin on Friday.