Sentences with phrase «of human spaceflight»

While clearly a concern of these two authorization committees, the future of the human spaceflight program obviously was center stage.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program relied on years of human spaceflight experience to develop the requirements needed to ensure transportation systems are qualified to fly astronauts.

The future of the human spaceflight program was the focus of the hearing, although the rest of NASA's portfolio (aeronautics, space technology, earth and space science) was also discussed.

«Europeans take great pride in seeing our astronauts in space,» says Daniel Sacotte, ESA's director of human spaceflight, microgravity, and exploration.

(That was the only time in the history of human spaceflight in the United States, Soviet Union / Russia, or China that a crew was on the first flight of a new rocket.)

Ferguson also indicated that Boeing is looking to market Starliner to customers beyond NASA: «We are looking for participants in the form of countries, industries and individuals that want to participate in this great business of human spaceflight.»

Soon that shall change, many advocates of human spaceflight believe, through a hybrid of new initiatives by Pres. Donald Trump's administration as well as commercial efforts led by private industry.

The invitation - only Pioneering Space National Summit, held in February in Washington, D.C., yielded a declaration that «the long - term goal of the human spaceflight and exploration program of the United States is to expand permanent human presence beyond low - Earth orbit and to do so in a way that will enable human settlement and a thriving space economy.»

With so much under review at NASA right now in terms of human spaceflight, are there any other sites on the table that are being looked at for launches?

Bill Gerstenmaier [NASA's chief of human spaceflight] has said NASA is going to cede low Earth orbit to commercial industry at some point.

The challenge of human spaceflight is that you deal with energies that are much greater than those found in most engineering problems.

And space physicians still need to find ways to limit other hazards of human spaceflight that don't have anything to do with weightlessness, such as disturbed sleep and exposure to cosmic radiation.

In political terms, hurling Tiangong 1 into Earth orbit, Cheng said, is another reminder that China intends to be a space player for the foreseeable future, including the realm of human spaceflight.

John Karas, vice president and general manager of human spaceflight at Lockheed Martin, recently declared, «I don't think there is a business case for us.»

The changes, part of a law that went into effect in October, were seen as a compromise that mollified fans of the human spaceflight program while including reforms that the White House had sought.

The rhetoric of human spaceflight advances a conception of outer space as a place of wide - open spaces and limitless resources — a space frontier.

If so, what will the early decades of human spaceflight — represented by Armstrong and Ride — be called?

Such rhetoric reveals an ideology of human spaceflight — a set of beliefs about the nation's right to expand its boundaries, colonize other lands and exploit their resources.

The second competition will select a K - 12 teacher from any subject area; applicants will be asked to submit a lesson plan or educational module based on some aspect of human spaceflight.

«In terms of the Schiaparelli test module, we have data coming back that allow us to fully understand the steps that did occur, and why the soft landing did not occur,» said David Parker, ESA's Director of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration.

The last sector is something I believe Axiom is uniquely able to provide, which is helping more governments get into the business of human spaceflight.

Already, one staunch advocate of human spaceflight, Sen. Bill Nelson (D — Fla.) is calling the budget a «nonstarter» due to its defunding of the ISS.

A common theme was the Obama Administration's FY2013 budget request for the future of the human spaceflight program and what many see as a competition between commercial crew services to the International Space Station (ISS) and a NASA - developed system to take astronauts further into the solar system.

«I am an unabashed supporter of space exploration in general and of human spaceflight in particular,» Griffin told Congress in 2003, when he called for a human return to the moon and a trip to Mars.

«We're working right now to take NASA's 50 years of human spaceflight and consolidate that experience into documentation that can be used by these commercial companies.»

We need to understand what happened in the last few seconds before landing,» said David Parker, ESA's director of human spaceflight and robotic exploration.

The world's first five spaceplanes flew within the first 50 years of human spaceflight.

Long - time government contractor Boeing has just unveiled its vision for the future of human spaceflight — Crew Space Transportation (CST - 100).

There's a rich discussion of her pioneering achievements under way on Twitter, where the science and space journalist Miles O'Brien said «she is to the shuttle era what Neil Armstrong is to Apollo» and noted her participation on NASA panels on the destruction of the Challenger and Columbia shuttles and the future of human spaceflight.

ESA is accepting proposals for scientific research using two of its human spaceflight «analogue» platforms: bedrest studies and the Concordia station in Antarctica.