Sentences with phrase «make space flight»

What can you do to make this space flight take a turn for the worst?

His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine — and turn a big profit.

Docking with the ISS would be a first for a commercial craft — and a key milestone for making space flight cheaper and more innovative

The US company says that because the rocket can make repeated flights and needs little maintenance, it would slash the cost of transporting payloads into Earth orbit, making space flights more routine.

Not exact matches

It is simple to handle and «forgiving»; its flight envelope makes it extremely maneuverable at low speeds and able to turn in tight spaces: this means it can circle over restricted areas and provide better support to the troops on the ground.

But Musk suggested that in time, the company would fly tourists to space once or twice a year and that the fares for these flights might eventually make up 10 to 20 percent of the company's revenues.

«Hurricanes live and die by the amount of rainfall they make out of moisture,» said George Huffman, a research meteorologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

The report, which was first made by Sky News, says that Google is in «advanced talks» to place a minority $ 30 million stake in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and invest an undisclosed amount that is somewhere in the range of «hundreds of millions of dollars» in Sir Richard Branson's ambitious space tourism venture, which aims to take well - heeled clients who can pay $ 200,000 for a ticket to an orbital space flight around the Earth.

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The first X Prize, for the first private piloted vehicle to reach space, led to the development of SpaceShipOne, a rocket - powered plane that made two flights in two weeks in 2004 to win the $ 10 million prize.

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«The wet season has typically 85 to over 95 percent cloudiness from late morning to early afternoon, when NASA satellites make measurements,» said co-author and remote sensing specialist Alexei Lyapustin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.

«The presence of neon in the exosphere of the moon has been a subject of speculation since the Apollo missions, but no credible detections were made,» said Mehdi Benna of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

We used the findings to make several improvements to the spacecraft's sail deployment mechanism,» said Tiffany Lockett, a NEA Scout sail systems engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

There is no doubt that the 2015 study, led by Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, flew in the face of previous research and even assertions made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Chakrabarti's suborbital rocket flights were made possible through NASA funding, as was the bulk of recent progress in high - performance coronagraphs for space telescopes.

One dozen flight mirrors are now installed on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, out of the eighteen mirror segments that make up the primary mirror.

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Adding wings made of glass or other refractive materials in flight would allow astronomers to better steer future space missions, the team reports online today in Nature Photonics.

Spending nearly a year in space, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his misspace, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his misSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his mission.

By 2014 the Dream Chaser could make its first orbital flight, and shortly thereafter it could be routinely ferrying up to seven people into low Earth orbit — on a visit to the International Space Station, for instance.

The skull went first to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's PaleoLab in Pittsburgh, then made a brief trip to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuspace shuttle.

Skin - tight and made of bi-directional elastics, SkinSuit has been designed to mimic the impact of gravity on the body to reduce the debilitating physical effects space flights have on astronauts» bodies.

A second study, led by Hailan Wang of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, used different model simulations and came to a similar conclusion: While a warming sea surface did make it more likely that a high - pressure ridge could form, the signal was not strong enough to explain its extreme nature.

Andrews - Hanna and colleagues have made a good case, says Herbert Frey, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, even though the newly described features are surprising.

James Garvin from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is anticipating a wealth of information about the surface of Mars — «We will be able to make direct comparisons between dramatic Martian landforms, such as Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris, and their terrestrial counterparts.»

«Volcanic islands are some of the simplest landforms to make,» said first author Jim Garvin, chief scientist of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

They didn't see hurricanes until the rain clouds were right above them; in our case, we can see storms leaving the sun but have to make guesses and use models to figure out if and when they will impact Earth,» says Michael Kaiser, project scientist for STEREO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Scientists are salivating over the research potential of flights designed to make joy rides to the edge of space

Launch company SpaceX may even shoot two space tourists around the moon before NASA's giant rocket, the Space Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earlspace tourists around the moon before NASA's giant rocket, the Space Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earlSpace Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earliest.

This work is based on observations made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), managed and controlled by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

«It is amazingly hard to make these kinds of measurements,» says Glyn Collinson at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«Those made uncomfortable by enclosed dark spaces, spinning, or loud noises should bypass this experience,» adds an actress playing the flight director.

That makes a total of 10 flights between now and retirement: one mission in October to upgrade and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, followed by nine more to finish assembly of the International Space Station (ISS), starting in November with a mission to repair faulty rotary joints in the station's movable solar panels.

NASA's new software algorithm will make real - time adjustments as the vehicle pushes toward space, helping improve performance and enhancing crew safety in the particularly stressful parts of the flight.

The tests are helping engineers working on the development of the SLS at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., ensure the rocket can adjust to the environment it faces as it makes its way to sSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., ensure the rocket can adjust to the environment it faces as it makes its way to spacespace.

But Virgin Galactic and SpaceX are likely to dominate headlines in the coming year, and may make 2011 the most exciting yet for private space flight.

«This is the first time anyone has seen anything like this, and it means that the process of forming planets from such disks is more complex than we previously expected,» said Anthony Remijan, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, who with his colleague Jan M. Hollis, of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope to make the discovery.

This historic flight, which lifted off from the first launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, placed in orbit five UK - made satellites having an overall launch mass of 1443 kg.

To mark Women's History Month, Southern Research is remembering some of the female scientists who helped the Birmingham - based organization make discoveries that led to safer space flight, effective cancer treatments and many other advances over its 75 years.

Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center tested NASA's first 3D printed rocket engine prototype part made of two different metal alloys through an innovative advanced manufacturing process.

The rocket would carry crews in the agency's Orion space capsule, which has made one uncrewed test flight.

When the Solstice Mission's plan was developed, NASA was fully aware that Cassini's low propellant levels would soon make it impossible to navigate, so the space agency deliberately chose to include a final plunge into Saturn that prevented a scenario where Cassini is in free flight.

Shelby made clear that he wants NASA to spend money on the Space Launch System (SLS), which is being built at Marshall Space Flight Center in his state, and not the commercial crew program.

This print of geese in flight is presented in warm hues on canvas and is framed in crisp white making it an exquisite focal point for your space.

This accuracy makes for some very memorable sequences: a moonbus whizzing silently across a desolate landscape, a space pod door blasted off without a noise, a flight attendant literally walking up walls.

She also makes a point of sharing with readers that, as exciting a moment in history as the flight was, many people felt the United States should not have poured money into the space program at a time when the country faced many problems.

«As a result of [my mission to Huntsville], classroom learning will be much more activity - based rather than theoretical - things like survivability, the history of space flight, the equipment used... and I will expand on the NASA material to make lesson plans more interesting for the students.»

Examples include Algodoo, a platform where students can design, make, and test Rube Goldberg — style contraptions, and Kerbal Space Program — available to schools as KerbalEdu — a virtual rocket launcher game where students can mess around and experiment with space flight missSpace Program — available to schools as KerbalEdu — a virtual rocket launcher game where students can mess around and experiment with space flight missspace flight missions.