Sentences with phrase «manned space program»

It is clear that the People's Liberation Army plays a major role in China's space missions, says Dean Cheng, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. «It begs the question of whether there is a civilian manned space program in any meaningful sense of the word,» he says.

He was running a private manned space program that was taking in money.

Finding Life Beyond Earth PBS As manned space programs face an uncertain future, powerful telescopes are uncovering a wealth of new planets across the galaxy — some of which could harbor life.

In running NASA's manned space program for most of the Apollo project, he amply demonstrated an ability to make tough decisions.

Kathuria was the Founding Director of Mircorp, the world's first commercial enterprise to privately launch and fund manned space programs.

Tell us, so we can cut funding to NASA and just appoint religious leaders to man our space program at a much cheaper cost.

The launch of Tiangong - 1 marks a major milestone in China's ambitious manned space program, begun in 1992.

Public apathy toward the current manned space program, a $ 100 billion International Space Station that is dismissed by most of the scientific community, and the recent Columbia disaster seem to have just about killed the old spirit of exploration.

More significantly, this is the beginning of the end not just for Hubble but for space shuttles — indeed for the entire American manned space program as currently configured.

EUROPE»S Aurora manned space program may have the giddy quality of a dream, but solving its twin challenges — building a vessel to carry a crew into deep space and designing the engines that can reach interesting destinations — pushes it toward mundane pocketbook realities.

GETTING astronauts out of Earth orbit and onto the moon or Mars is only one element of a robust manned space program.

While NASA's manned space program remains in crisis, its unmanned attempts at exploration, especially on Mars, keep chalking up successes.

By 1959, we initiated our first manned space program and, within a decade, we achieved the impossible when Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon.

He had taken charge of NASA's manned space program in 1963 at the age of 45, when engineers were just starting to build the Saturn V rocket.

Rutan wasn't just running a private manned space program.

I'm just saying what they are doing on [the manned space program] is not looking for the breakthroughs that are needed.

In the descent of our manned space program into stultified irrelevance, we're all a little bit complicit.

«You'd be shocked to know how much money China is spending on its manned space program,» says Manuel Valls Toimil, the head of program integration for ESA's manned missions.

Ever since its birth in 1958, NASA has been synonymous with America's manned space program, from the triumphs of the Apollo missions to the disasters of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.

As I toured the Johnson facilities, it was easy at first to forget that NASA's manned space program is in such flux.

Shortly after the museum directors decided on the debate topic, «The Moon, Mars and Beyond: Where Next for the Manned Space Program?»

From 1964 to 1970, at a time when many scientists questioned the value of a manned space program, Townes accepted an appointment as chairman of an ad hoc science advisory committee to NASA's manned space program, to secure support for the Apollo moon flights from the larger scientific community and ensure that they would yield maximum benefits in scientific research.

A really good overview of what went on at Mission Control during the birth of America's manned space program.

I will grant that funding of the field as a whole is broadly reflective of the importance society as whole thinks it worth (hence the huge funding for NIH and the manned space program), but I disagree that this leads to an incentive to exaggerate or be alarmist.

That was my personal experience with many of my Mechanical Engineering friends from the manned space program that led us to create The Right Climate Stuff research team of retirees who were primarily veterans of the Apollo Program.

If the models aren't validated with physical data, then my professional experience from our manned space program says, ignore them.