Sentences with phrase «on human spaceflight»

He follows and reports on human spaceflight progress, as well as the progress of the LightSail solar sail, which is about a year from its next flight.

In Noordwijk, people work on science missions, on human spaceflight, telecom, satellite navigation, and Earth observation.

On the human spaceflight side, which accounts for about half of the agency's budget, Congress continued to support both public and private approaches to getting humans into space.

Not exact matches

«Astronaut John Young's storied career spanned three generations of spaceflight; we will stand on his shoulders as we look toward the next human frontier.»

Boeing is on course to reignite American human spaceflight with its CST - 100 Starliner, a 21st century space capsule that will take people to and from low - Earth orbit.

ThomasARickhoff on March 6, 2011 @lunhil12 I can not link the page but if you go to the NASA Human Spaceflight Webpage.

In the essay, she touches on one of the great tragedies of NASA's human spaceflight program: It was on that launchpad that the Apollo 1 capsule caught fire during a test exercise, killing all three men inside.

That gibe earned laughs from the crowd but drew a rebuke from retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles, a member of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee (aka the Augustine Commission), the group that recently advised Obama on NASA's options for manned spaceflight.

Wherever we go, microbial communities will faithfully follow, making this evidence of the effects of spaceflight on bacterial physiology relevant to human health.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

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?

During spaceflights, and in future habitats on the Moon or Mars, humans are or will be exposed to a condition of «microgravity,» in other words to a gravitational field much smaller compared to that present on Earth.

Human spaceflight researchers believe crew autonomy will be critical on a Mars mission, mostly because of the hundreds of millions of miles that will delay communications.

Britain has a long - standing policy of avoiding any programs of the European Space Agency that involve human spaceflight, focusing its efforts on robotic science missions, earth observation, and the commercial exploitation of space.

The White House set up the committee, chaired by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine, to review NASA's plans for human spaceflight, which are currently focused on returning astronauts to the moon by 2020.

Griffin has described the shift of money as a «speed bump,» a temporary measure to get human spaceflight back on course.

The three Penn study authors are also participating with Cognition in a NASA effort reported earlier this year to study the molecular, physiological and psychological effects of spaceflight on the human body by comparing identical twins, evidencing the need for a comprehensive cognitive test battery for spaceflight.

Satellite communications, along with orbiting weather and GPS systems, are so widespread now that consumers largely take them for granted, whereas human spaceflight, limited to low Earth orbit, rarely gets a degree of attention even close to that on the night before Christmas 1968.

We were spurred into action when the Augustine commission, a blue - ribbon panel that President Barack Obama set up earlier that year to review the space shuttle and its intended successor, reported that «the U.S. human spaceflight program appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory.»

The lack of national consensus on NASA's most publicly visible human spaceflight goal along with budget uncertainty has undermined the agency's ability to guide program planning and allocate funding.»

Chinese breakthroughs in understanding these fundamental particles, like its progress in human spaceflight, Luk says, «demonstrate the capability and potential of China in science and technology, which are on the rise.»

Between 1961 and 1963, six astronauts carried out successful one - person spaceflights that offered physicians and scientists the first opportunity to observe the effects of living in space on the human body.

That explains why the Obama administration chose Augustine to head a commission on the future of NASA's human spaceflight program — and why the space agency was so shaken by his conclusion.

«We'll gain new, detailed insights on the ways long - duration spaceflight affects the human body.»

Let's do everything all at once in the human spaceflight and stay focused on getting to Mars by setting a date.

(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.)

Her focus was on ensuring that «in 2020, when ISS will go away, most likely,» the United States does not face another gap in human spaceflight like today.

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.

states that a human mission to Mars is the goal for NASA's human spaceflight program and calls on NASA to develop a roadmap to achieve that goal

This week includes the 57th anniversary of the first human spaceflight — Yuri Gagarin's one - orbit ride aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and the 37th anniversary of the first U.S. space shuttle flight — STS - 1 on April 12, 1981, with John Young and Bob Crippen at the controls.

Much of today's discussion focused on the need for the long - term human spaceflight plan required by the bill — a Human Exploration Roahuman spaceflight plan required by the bill — a Human Exploration RoaHuman Exploration Roadmap.

On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue.

The Subcommittee on Science and Space of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on April 23, 2013 on Challenges and Opportunities in Human Spaceflight.

It contains comprehensive sections on: - The Sun, Planets, and Dwarf Planets; - Information about their moons; - Other Bodies in the Solar System; - Human Spaceflight; - Timeline of Discovery; The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).

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.

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.

Shielding of spacecraft and surface laboratories on the Moon and Mars would be a critical component for any such human spaceflight effort.

«The NASA appointee from what I can tell is going to be somebody who's going to be very focused on Mars or human spaceflight, and I don't think that's terrible,» he said.

The company's leadership team includes Chief Executive Officer Frank Bunger, who is a serial entrepreneur and technology start - up executive credited with multiple startups under his belt; Chief Technology Officer David Jarvis — a lifelong entrepreneur, human spaceflight engineer, and payload developer with breadth and depth in the management and operations of the International Space Station (ISS); Chief Architect Frank Eichstadt, who is an industrial designer and space architect credited with being the principal architect on the ISS Enterprise module; and Chief Operating Officer Marv LeBlanc — a former general manager and program manager with decades of executive space experience running operations and mission control.