Sentences with phrase «of the space shuttle»

The end of the space shuttle program and the transition toward relying on commercial firms for access to low - Earth orbit are reflections of a decade - old change in political priorities.

The news of the day was about plans for the next launch of the space shuttle, which at first glance seems a mark of high - tech modernity.

He is also a licensed commercial pilot and was once a finalist for the position of space shuttle mission specialist.

The need for a break is keeping in mind the various requirements of the 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.

Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Men Who Flew Her By Rowland White

«The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

The July 26 launch of the space shuttle Discovery carried a clear message about the future of NASA — just not the message the agency intended.

Feb. 12, 2013 — Robert Bayuzick, who had experiments conducted on three separate flights of the space shuttle Columbia while he was a professor of chemical engineering and director of materials science at Vanderbilt University, died Feb. 8 in Nashville.

Good for a Few More Years The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis hauled in the Hubble Space Telescope on May 13 to service the venerable instrument for the fifth and final time.

(1) the impending retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2010 and reduced launch capabilities for transporting ISS research cargo once the shuttle retires;

1986 began in tragedy, with the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28th, just 73 seconds after takeoff.

With the final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle Program scheduled to blast off with the July 8 launch of space shuttle Atlantis, we thought it might be nice to collect and share some of your personal memories about the program.

Workers seeking employment create resumes and look for open positions on laptops provided by USAJobs at a job fair for space workers and those workers who lost jobs due to the end of the space shuttle program in Cape Canaveral, Fla..

Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large - scale disasters and ethno - political warfare.

The X-37B, a miniature, uncrewed version of the space shuttle, built by Boeing for the US air force, has flown three times but its purpose is a mystery.

Unlike most planetary missions, which ride to space aboard an expendable rocket, Galileo set sail for Jupiter from the cargo bay of Space Shuttle Atlantis.

The Saturn V rocket became a museum piece, and NASA bet its money instead on a fleet of space shuttles circling in low Earth orbit.

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

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

Each of those challenges had been the cause of a Space Shuttle disaster.

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

Inspired by the Apollo program's mission control panels and the anniversary of the Space Shuttle program, this tie features amazing illustrations from real NASA documents.

These shows included a series inspired by memories of the space shuttle Challenger exploding in the sky over his native South Florida.

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

American astronauts had flown dozens of space shuttle missions, and Soviet cosmonauts were building ever more complex space stations, culminating with Mir, Artsebarsky and Krikalev's destination.

A profound feeling of emptiness struck many space aficionados in the US and beyond last month after Atlantis touched down for the last time, the 133rd and final return of a space shuttle orbiter.

But, in June, when NASA astronauts tried to load Eureca into the hold of the space shuttle Endeavour, two communications antennas would not fold away.

Hubble 3D (G) Intergalactic, IMAX documentary, narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, offering an awe - inspiring view of our celestial surroundings while recounting the brave effort of Space Shuttle Astronauts Scott Altman, Andrew Feustel and Michael Good to repair the Hubble telescope during a daring spacewalk.

Nimoy recalled the naming of the space shuttle orbiter, which was built as a prototype for NASA's reusable spaceship fleet.

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.

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.

The crash of the space shuttle Columbia has not blunted the determination of teachers who want to fly into space, and NASA said last week it is still committed to making education part of the shuttle program's mission.

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

«The SSMEs were reusable,» Dan Dumbacher, former NASA deputy associated administrator for exploration systems development, said of the space shuttle main engines.

The blue ovals (pictured above left) are residue from the main engines of the space shuttle launch vehicle, which used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (pictured below).

The base is just two hours northeast of my home in Los Angeles, close enough that from my patio I could hear the sonic boom of the space shuttle as it re-entered the atmosphere.

«Roger, uh --» radioed flight commander Rick D. Husband, 45, as he acknowledged news from Mission Control that there were wonky tire - pressure readings from sensors on the left wing of the space shuttle Columbia.

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

And with the flight of Apollo 17 in 1972, the U.S. put aside its plans for a permanent base on the Moon, deciding to rely instead on unmanned spacraft and the fleet of space shuttles for the future.

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.

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

What it's about: One of the most ambitious James Bond films — with Roger Moore — «Moonraker» has Bond investigating the theft of a space shuttle, leading him to a space million where he stops a global genocide.

A jesus action figure on the dash of the space shuttle?

I remember most of the Space Shuttle launches and disasters.