Sentences with phrase «manned space shuttle program»

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With NASA's announcement that the 30 - year - old space shuttle program would end after the touchdown of Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center this summer, the iconic agency has, for now, abandoned the concept of government - built manned spacecspace shuttle program would end after the touchdown of Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center this summer, the iconic agency has, for now, abandoned the concept of government - built manned spacecSpace Center this summer, the iconic agency has, for now, abandoned the concept of government - built manned spacecraft.

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.

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.

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.

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.