Sentences with phrase «manned space program for»

Not exact matches

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

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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.

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

For a man obsessed with entities long - since expired, it seems cruelly fitting that Still, whom I sat with on that flight two years ago, may soon see the death of his own NASA program: managing the Kepler space telescope, which orbits the sun with a mission to find exoplanets near other stars.

I do think that our program has been stuck for a while — that the space shuttle mission did not inspire the imagination of the public — that much of the experimentation that was done could have been conducted not necessarily with manned flights.

But I found myself crying not just when we get Dean's affecting and deeply personal description of the VAB, but when we meet strangers lined up along the side of the road waiting for hours to catch sight of a launch, when we meet the men and women — one man in particular, Omar Izquerido, an orbiter integrity clerk at the VAB — who have devoted their lives to the space shuttle program, and who continue to devote themselves enthusiastically to their work even as they watch its end creeping toward them.

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During the 1970s, a long - range tracking system for radars that Mr. Stodola invented was used in NASA's Project Mercury, the first - U.S. - man - in - space program, and for the first air force surveillance satellite, Discoverer.

He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a sailboat with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraptionprogram my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraptionProgram turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraptionprogram, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption works!

Then there are the directorates — for space and earth science, aeronomy the manned program etc..

They are of course entitled to their opinions, but the vague and unsourced accusations they level at NASA and GISS, and in particular their call for scientists to be censored for talking about their research is unbecoming, and not compatible with the high regard that many of them retain for their impressive actions in the manned space flight program.

[Dr. Siu - Man Ting] Online programs offer the flexibility of time and space for students who either have a full - time job or can not come to campus.

The focus for the program to date has been in the men's health space, targeting Aboriginal males and their communities.