Sentences with phrase «of space shuttle»

The retirement of the Space Shuttle program made way for today's new era of commercial spaceflight, which is being led by companies such as Orbital ATK (which is being acquired by Northrop Grumman), Sierra Nevada Corp., and of course, SpaceX, Elon Musk's company.

Led development of replacement software / hardware for control of space shuttle RMS (robotic arm) integrating video and controls on a touch screen monitor.

The launch of the space shuttle Discovery was postponed read more...

Luminous Landscape — Photography in Space — Alan Poindexter — A series of photos by the commander of the penultimate mission of space shuttle Discovery.

The Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2010 February 16 shows a beautiful picture of the space shuttle against the limb of the Earth.

The list of reasons why Morton - Thiokol management voted to recommend launch of the space shuttle in temperatures too cold for the o - rings to work correctly contained neat - sounding but irrelevant facts.

The new ideas provoked a few scientists to take a look at how the upper atmosphere might be affected by another ambitious project — the hundreds of space shuttle flights that NASA hoped to launch.

The stratosphere is the blue layer in the image above, taken by the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992.

Artist Statement «Marking the 100th mission of the Space Shuttle Program, Discovery took the first truss piece (Z1 Truss) to the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2000.

The Museum's existing Charles Simonyi Space Gallery on the West Campus will continue with the story of the space shuttle, plus the latest in current and future spaceflight.

Artist Statement «The first flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and it set all kinds of records!

Handing a rookie a hunk of plastic that resembles the flight deck of the Space Shuttle can be a bit intimidating.

They largely revolve around whether or not Zero becomes a Maverick: he will do so if he doesn't survive the crash of the Space Shuttle or Eurasia crashes, and in either case he will not be playable for the final stage.

JAMES - Journey Assistance and Mapping Exploration System - sounds like something one might find in the cockpit of a space shuttle.

Schools across the country got a lift from the excitement surrounding the mission of the space shuttle Discovery and the return of Sen. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, to space after 36 years.

Millions of American students had good reason to watch last week's launch of the space shuttle Columbia with unusually intense interest.

In the 1980's, thanks to the development of the Space Shuttle, our access to space became easier.

That was the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

EducationWorld's Space Page Space Tourism Lesson Plan A Look at the Space Age A Tour of the Space Shuttle The Final Frontier

Penguins Around the World A Tour of a Space Shuttle Mouserobics Is That Copy Right?

Facts About U.S. Presidents Know Your Presidents A Tour of a Space Shuttle Happy Chinese New Year!

March 9, 2011 • Astrophotographer Alan Friedman captures the silhouette of space shuttle Discovery against the sun during its last mission.

In A Quiet Place, John Krasinski's third film as a writer - director - actor (The Hollars, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men), a cheaply made, disposable children's toy, a plastic and metal reproduction of the space shuttle — a symbol of both triumph and tragedy in American culture — portends an abrupt, premature end for the unfortunate member of a...

This is the story of the Space Race — from the launch of the Soviet's Sputnik I on October 4, 1957 to the successful completion of the first phase of the Space Shuttle program in 1983.

However, with the looming retirement of the space shuttle and a suitable replacement project mothballed, modern NASA is faced with major challenges.

The Johann Strauss waltz «Blue Danube,» which accompanies the docking of the space shuttle and the space station, is deliberately slow, and thereby offers no resistance to the non-action taking place on the screen.

Since the end of the Space Shuttle programme, NASA has been unable to launch manned missions of its own, and Americans are concerned about falling behind China.

By comparison, NASA's current demand for seats is approximately 40 seats to space per year, either through flights of the Space Shuttle or through Soyuz seat purchases.

Follow along with narrator Leonardo DiCaprio as the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis embarks on the space shuttle's final chance to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope.

HST is a 2.4 - meter reflecting telescope, which was deployed in low - Earth orbit (600 kilometers) by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery (STS - 31) on 25 April 1990.

Due to the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia, the Shuttle fleet is grounded in order to investigate what caused the Space Shuttle Columbia to disintegrate as it re-entered the earth's atmosphere.

Its Airborne Imaging and Recording System (AIRS) turrets, mounted on WB - 57 high - altitude research aircraft circling above Cape Kennedy on July 26, 2005, captured full - motion video of Space Shuttle Discovery's launch to well beyond booster separation at 146,000 feet.

With the termination of the space shuttle program last year, Soyuz is the only way to take crews to and from the ISS.

After its repair by the crew of the Space Shuttle mission STS - 61, the Hubble Space Telescope was furtheron used to investigate (and photograph) the Orion nebula.

Train like an astronaut in the essential functions of space shuttle flight with high - tech simulators inside Space Shuttle Atlantis ®.

At the beginning of the space shuttle program, he said, NASA thought the risk of losing a crew was one in a thousand; «Retrospectively, we now think that it is one in 12.»

Brooks, who represents Marshall Space Flight Center, contended that more money is needed to support human exploration because, since the end of the space shuttle program, America has had to «hitch a ride» with the Russians to the International Space Station (ISS) and thus lost its preeminence.

The US has been sending astronauts up to the International Space Station with the aid of Russia's Soyuz launch program since the retirement of the Space Shuttle back in 2011.

Stafford was enthusiastic, noting that the first launch of the space shuttle carried a crew.

Since the end of the Space Shuttle program, NASA astronauts and those of its international partners have launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the ISS aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft — at a cost of some $ 70 million or more per seat.

For example, the Constellation rockets are based on the Saturn Vs, making use of some design elements of the Space Shuttle program.

This allowed additional food and equipment to be sent to the station, which was needed after the end of the Space Shuttle program, the agency said.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program will deliver U.S. astronauts into low - Earth orbit, from U.S. soil, and aboard a U.S. spacecraft, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era.

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Boeing has selected a new subcontractor to develop eight parts for the CST - 100 space capsule as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), which outsources to private companies to return American astronauts into space after the retirement of the Space Shuttle.

They must do so because, following the 2011 retirement of the space shuttle program, the only way for Americans to travel into space is aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

The Space Shuttle Challenger Mission (Flight STS - 51L) was the 25th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

This is because, even if NASA and its partners had the capabilities of the Space Shuttle program, it would be far too distant to reach and service once in its operational orbit, just under one million miles from Earth.

More than 30 years since its maiden launch — and having enabled near - continuous communications traffic between dozens of Space Shuttle and International Space Station -LSB-...]

With a little more than a year to go before U.S. astronauts launch aboard a U.S. - built spacecraft, and from U.S. soil, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era, NASA has ordered its second Post-Certification Mission (PCM) from SpaceX.