Sentences with phrase «of the space shuttle program»

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 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.

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..

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.

With last year's shutdown of the space shuttle program, the only Americans going into space for the next few years will be the handful flying on Russian Soyuz rockets.

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.

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

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.»

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

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.

With a little help from their imaginations and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, two groups of Ohio elementary - school students became the newest veterans of the space shuttle program.

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.

For many Americans, the end of the space shuttle program — the final launch and return of Atlantis in July 2011 — embodies that sense of failure and dismantling.

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.

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.

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.

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.