Sentences with phrase «manned space flight»

That's great news for Kelly, NASA, and the future of manned space flight, but it's also interesting for the rest of us stuck here on earth amid the usual small hassles and daily annoyances of a planet - bound existence.

The Shuttle program was not the first time Southern Research had focused on manned space flight.

We tend to forget that the first manned space flight was produced at the height of the Soviet empire.

In any case, as far as Ullrich is concerned the result of the ISS experiment is good news for manned space flight: «There's hope that our cells are able to cope much better with zero gravity than we previously thought.»

The agency decided to ground the space shuttle program and conduct a full investigation to determine if manned space flight was worth the risks involved.

For All Mankind (1989), Al Reinert's celebration of the nine manned space flights between 1968 and 1972, was released to theaters in 1989, twenty years after first manned moon landing.

The success of the early manned space flights set the stage for NASA's Apollo missions which culminated with the first humans successfully landing on extraterrestrial terrain.

I have supported government entities like NASA, DoD, SAIC in accomplishing state of the art projects for Top Secret manned space flight, and provided comprehensive support initiatives that ensured Airman were trained, equipped, and deployed to fight in Operation Iraqi Freedom — and most importantly military operations, whose service experiences are immeasurably improved through implementation of these forward - thinking processes and procedures.

In fact, it is the accumulation of radiation dose that is the limiting factor for the maximum length of manned space flights.

Gionta had little idea at the time that Rutan was thinking about the ultimate in high - altitude aviation: manned space flight.

For the first time, manned space flight wasn't about the hero astronaut — it was about an upstart company aimed at making space flight a consumer product.

Since the early days of manned space flight, engineers have designed a wide variety of space suits.

«The bottom line is that nobody is more committed to manned space flight than I am,» the president said.

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.

I was very excited for this documentary - style take on a manned space flight to Jupiter's ice moon Europa.

The Space Museum is a part of the Space Center Houston that is run by the Manned Space Flight Education Foundation.

The Obama administration remains committed to manned space flights, but it canceled the projected $ 108 billion return - to - moon plan, called Constellation, a move that's roiling some in Congress.

The timescale over which the global warm - mongers are bothering us is about a century, roughly the time it took to go from horse - drawn carriages to manned space flight.

If this is your belief, then NASA should get out of the manned space flight as well.