Sentences with phrase «of space capsule»

The first look ends as Armstrong climbs down the steps of the space capsule as he prepares to take his first step onto the moon.»

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Its successor, Voyager, is intended to fly up to eight people for over five hours to the edge of space in a capsule complete with massive windows to enjoy the view.

Other winners: Boeing, which picked up $ 18 million for its own seven - person space capsule, and the United Launch Alliance, a Boeing - Lockheed Martin joint project, which received $ 6.7 million to develop a way to monitor the health of unmanned rockets that could be recycled to launch manned spacecraft.

Jeff Bezos releases first photos revealing the sleek interiors of the New Shepard crew capsule bound for space.

The reusable rocket and capsule is designed to carry passengers to an altitude of more than 100 miles (62 km) above the planet so they can experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of Earth set against the blackness of space.

Finally, NASA knew the importance of education along with ballyhoo, and a huge Space Center was erected at Cape Kennedy (just a few miles from Disney World) where families could see a super-wide-screen movie celebrating the technological marvels of the space program, tour actual rockets and historic space capsules, and on occasion even see a blast - off of one of the many space launSpace Center was erected at Cape Kennedy (just a few miles from Disney World) where families could see a super-wide-screen movie celebrating the technological marvels of the space program, tour actual rockets and historic space capsules, and on occasion even see a blast - off of one of the many space launspace program, tour actual rockets and historic space capsules, and on occasion even see a blast - off of one of the many space launspace capsules, and on occasion even see a blast - off of one of the many space launspace launches.

Take 6 capsules of acidophilus evenly spaced throughout the day.

A capsule wardrobe gets rid of all the excess and fluff I never wear and saves space, time, and money.

Seeing the Zapp Flex from the front, it looks like a futuristic space capsule stroller of some sort; it is modern looking with a sleek and eye - catching design in a variety of stylish, bright colors.

While watching an American TV program, Aldman noticed the position of the astronauts in the Gemini space capsule.

Instead of a rosy time capsule of Earth and its history and inhabitants made for consumption by unknowable alien civilizations, it carries a dummy in a SpaceX space suit, and will blast David Bowie's «Space Oddity» at top volume from its speaspace suit, and will blast David Bowie's «Space Oddity» at top volume from its speaSpace Oddity» at top volume from its speakers.

Today debris threatens hundreds of spacecraft and satellites; in fact, last June a space - station crew scrambled into a Soyuz escape capsule because of passing trash.

From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA's new space capsule, take an entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.

In June the six astronauts onboard the International Space Station took shelter in escape capsules when a piece of debris came within a few hundred meters of the station.

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

Boeing is working on a crew capsule of its own, called the CST - 100, with a view to winning space taxi business not only from NASA but from Las Vegas company Bigelow Aerospace too.

Star City also has a museum showcasing spacesuits, charred descent capsules and assorted Gagarin memorabilia, including the YG 1 number plate of the Rolls - Royce that drove him past ecstatic crowds in London three months after his first space flight.

Other competitors include Molniya's space plane, which can be launched in midair, and an updated version of Khrunichev's TKS manned transport ship, a partially reusable unwinged capsule first designed in the 1960s.

But last week the European Space Agency's engineering arm in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, confirmed that it has been commissioned to test the space hardiness of the capsule that will contain the Sefer Torah scSpace Agency's engineering arm in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, confirmed that it has been commissioned to test the space hardiness of the capsule that will contain the Sefer Torah scspace hardiness of the capsule that will contain the Sefer Torah scroll.

And when I was reading it, I was thinking about, I had heard an astronaut interviewed once, who had done a space walk, and he was asked, what did you think of when you were on the space walk, outside the capsule, looking at the planet and universe?

CO2 is already taken out of the air in enclosed spaces such as submarines and space capsules.

And the ill - fated and controversial space capsule Liberty Bell 7 was raised from its watery grave almost exactly 40 years after it sank in the Atlantic Ocean, having carried the first astronaut, Gus Grissom, in a historic first orbit of the earth.

Nov. 19: See space artifacts ranging from an original model of Sputnik to a Vostok - 6 capsule at the London Science Museum's Cosmonauts exhibit, opening today with many items never before seen outside Russia.

As the shuttle — the centerpiece of American space exploration for the last 40 years — paraded to its final resting place at the city's California Science Center, the future of spaceflight was orbiting overhead: Space Exploration Technology (SpaceX) Corporation's Dragon, an unmanned capsule, was circling 240 miles up, delivering nearly 900 pounds of food, water, and equipment to the International Space Staspace exploration for the last 40 years — paraded to its final resting place at the city's California Science Center, the future of spaceflight was orbiting overhead: Space Exploration Technology (SpaceX) Corporation's Dragon, an unmanned capsule, was circling 240 miles up, delivering nearly 900 pounds of food, water, and equipment to the International Space StaSpace Exploration Technology (SpaceX) Corporation's Dragon, an unmanned capsule, was circling 240 miles up, delivering nearly 900 pounds of food, water, and equipment to the International Space StaSpace Station.

C02 is already taken out of the air in enclosed spaces like submarines and space capsules.

The International Space Station received its first commercial visitor with the arrival of the SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule.

Barely a year after Inspiration Mars was announced, Tito went before Congress hat in hand, saying the flight wouldn't be possible without the use of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion space capsule, both still in developSpace Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion space capsule, both still in developspace capsule, both still in development.

There was a Soyuz capsule Krikalev and his comrade, Ukrainian Aleksandr Volkov, could use for a hasty escape, but if they took the easy way out and left Mir, it could mean the end of the space station.

The point in launching a time capsule into space, instead of just burying it, was to capture people's imaginations.

At the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, check out a real Apollo - era Saturn V test rocket — a behemoth longer than the Statue of Liberty is tall — plus crew capsules, space suits, parachutes, and a moon Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, check out a real Apollo - era Saturn V test rocket — a behemoth longer than the Statue of Liberty is tall — plus crew capsules, space suits, parachutes, and a moon space suits, parachutes, and a moon rock.

President Obama made a rare shout - out to space in Tuesday's State of the Union Address, referencing NASA's recent Orion capsule launch and addressing astronaut Scott Kelly in the audience at the Capitol.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule's mission to the space station includes a clever mouse cell experiment that investigates how years of space flight affects humans

That would come via interplanetary flights of the firm's Red Dragon spacecraft — a derivative of the SpaceX Dragon capsule that has already hauled cargo to the International Space Station and in due course will take astronauts there.

This idea was shelved after nearly 10 years of development, and NASA agreed to use the Russian Soyuz capsule as the rescue vehicle for the space station.

The Dream Chaser team touts the craft's advantages: its reusability, its horizontal landings (as opposed to the Soyuz - style parachute landings for a space capsule), and the reliability of the Atlas V rocket booster that will put it into orbit.

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.

The cone - shaped vehicle, designed to carry humans farther into space than ever before, is reminiscent of the Apollo capsules that flew astronauts to the moon, but it is a third larger.

The recycled capsule contained the first Chinese experiment to join the US side of the International Space Station, plus neutron star observation equipment

Topping the list of issues is the agency's ability to fly the space shuttle safely while developing its replacement, the Ares I rocket and Orion crew capsule, slated to be ready to fly by 2015.

The plan is to purchase a rocket and a crew capsule from one or more of the other private space enterprises that have sprung up in recent years, such as SpaceX or Blue Origin.

He hopes to drop a sealed capsule containing metals and dust from a 110 - meter tower in Bremen, Germany, to simulate the weightlessness of space.

Obama proposed jettisoning much of the Constellation program, which Bush set up to build rockets and Apollo - like capsules to replace the space shuttle, and instead paying private companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch astronauts into orbit.

A slightly different version of the Soyuz rocket is used to carry Soyuz crew capsules to the space station.

One of the Soyuz capsules launched to the space station on 4 April will be past its expiry in late October.

In addition, the agency would spend almost double that, $ 2.453 billion, on its own capsule, Orion, and a rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), a lumbering, and delayed, heavy - lift vehicle that will not see its first launch until the end of 2018.

SpaceX has been flying cargo capsules to the International Space Station since 2014 and has pioneered the use of reusable rockets and capsules, but has yet to launch a crewed mission.

Stop - motion photography showed their space capsule landing in the eye of the face of the moon — one of the earliest uses of this form of animation.

Although all three designs use a traditional vertical launch rocket to get their vehicles into space, Sierra's competitors are building capsules that are designed to land back on Earth using either parachutes and airbags (in the case of Boeing's CST - 100) or thrusters (SpaceX's Dragon capsule).

These so - called Red Dragon missions would adapt the same crewed capsule that SpaceX is developing to help NASA send astronauts to the International Space Station, and place it on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket — whose maiden test flight is scheduled for 2017.

Plucked from space by ISS astronauts using the station's multi-jointed robot arm, the uncrewed Dragon cargo capsule, made by SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, had already passed its pre-docking manoeuvring tests to show it can safely approach the ISS.