Sentences with phrase «manned space vehicle»

His machine now hangs in the Smithsonian — a stone's throw away from SpaceShipOne, the first private manned space vehicle.

Not exact matches

Several months after that meeting, Peter Diamandis, a space - travel fanatic in St. Louis, announced a new competition, the X-Prize (later named the Ansari X-Prize), for the first manned, non-government-funded flight to reach an altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, and then repeat the feat with the same vehicle within two weeks.

He also wants to be the man who designs a vehicle capable of not just brushing the edge of space, but actually going into orbit.

The list can grow long very rapidly — atomic energy generating plants, supersonic transport planes (SST), jet aircraft, oral contraceptives, tranquilizers, television, communication satellites, space vehicles that take men to the moon and cameras to Mars and beyond, hundreds of synthetic fabrics, the aerosol can, direct long - distance dialing, heart transplants, advanced computers, and so on and on.

See http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fTEXT%2bIM-PRESS%2b20111205IPR33211%2b0%2bDOC%2bXML%2bV0%2f%2fEN&language=EN Following that vote, the man responsible for steering the legislation through Parliament, motorcycling Dutch MEP and IMCO Rapporteur Wim van de Camp, said that «These vehicles will increase urban mobility, use less space, waste less energy and have a reduced level of emissions» adding that «riding a motorbike has now become greener and safer.»

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While NASA inches ahead with plans for a new Crew Exploration Vehicle, the Russians are racing to replace their aging Soyuz fleet with a futuristic manned spacecraft designed to give Russia the competitive edge in commercial space exploration.

This year, he said, «I was trained as a software developer for KSC's new firing room, where they will launch future manned and unmanned space vehicles, and spent most of my time developing code to test the various software displays for the liquid oxygen tank that is out at the launch pad.»

In 2010 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced plans to send a manned vehicle into space by 2020.

NASA is fighting to rebuild its credibility with fiberglass and Velcro — the materials holding together a mock - up of the agency's upcoming manned space capsule, the Crew Exploration Vehicle.

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government's only manned launch vehicle currently in service.

NASA awarded five companies a total of nearly $ 50 million through the first round of funding in 2010 to develop spacecraft, launch systems and support equipment, including Blue Origin, Paragon Space Development Corp. and United Launch Alliance as well as those involved in manned vehicle development like Boeing and Sierra Nevada.

The company has already begun prototyping and selling payload space for a larger rocket and hopes eventually to offer both manned and unmanned vehicles for one - tenth the current standard price.

Cells are manufactured in house or sourced via commercial providers for satellites, launch vehicles, and manned space applications.

There are references to the cars» various motorsport entries too, including those of Mazda's official racers such as the 1991 Le Mans - winning 787B, while significant rotary vehicles like the NSU RO80 are also given space.

The aerospace engineering science discipline involves: increasing the knowledge and understanding of the aeronautical and astronautical sciences and their applications in aviation and space exploration; improving manned and unmanned commercial, defense, and business aviation technology; and creating, developing, testing, launching, operating, maintaining, remodeling, and decommissioning aeronautical vehicles and structures.

The interior strives to achieve harmony between man and machine by taking advantage of new powertrain packaging efficiencies delivering even greater passenger space than its predecessor, the 4 - passenger Honda FCX Clarity fuel - cell vehicle.

We aren't surprised to see a land vehicle added, since an enterprising Redditor spotted a buggy model in No Man's Sky's Foundation update back in November, but there are several new space - whips beyond just a buggy, including a hovercraft and a massive cargo vehicle.

The two men in orange consist of a man trapped under a flipped vehicle that looks a lot like a space rover (sparking theories that parts of Death Stranding will be set in space), and another man desperately trying to free him.

In addition to traditional ground - based shooting matches, Infinite Warfare will put players in the cockpit of a single - man space combat vehicle, with all the juking, blasting and comm chatter you'd expect from a Star Wars film.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

The space between 0 and 1000 km is a sort of no mans land scientifically — heck there is a zone above the stratosphere where we can't send balloons to, deploy satellites, or other vehicles to measure its properties.