Sentences with phrase «on suborbital flights»

The group hopes to eventually fly a human on a suborbital flight to space using a beefed - up version of the rocket, which is...

Weeks later, the US launched Alan Shepard on a suborbital flight in full view of television cameras.

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This launch system is designed to haul six customers and two pilots on suborbital space flights, allowing an out - of - the - seat, zero - gravity experience and out - the - window views of Earth from the black sky of space.

Other companies are focusing on suborbital tourist flights, which provide several minutes of weightlessness and stunning views.

The NASA - funded FOXSI instrument captured new evidence of small solar flares, called nanoflares, during its December 2014 flight on a suborbital sounding rocket.

The first 100 space tourists scheduled to take suborbital flights from the spaceport being built by Virgin Galactic were announced on Tuesday.

Depending on the mission, the flights were either in a suborbital or in a low - orbit path and lasted between 15 minutes and 34 hours.

Internationally renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking is planning to fulfill his «ultimate ambition» by traveling to outer space, having accepted an offer from Virgin Galactic owner Richard Branson to be a passenger on a future suborbital flight.

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), in Wallops Island, Virginia, leads technical and scientific reviews for the 47 teams planning to fly on suborbital and orbital vehicle platforms, such as CubeSats, aircraft, sounding rockets, and balloons.

Those pathfinders astronauts will fly on flights donated to Teachers in Space by suborbital companies.

Previous efforts in space tourism have focused on the development of brief, suborbital flights in which passengers would experience a brief period of weightlessness and a view of the curvature of the Earth before returning to the surface.

According to Discovery News, «Launched on ballistic flight paths that quickly re-enter the atmosphere, the water wouldn't add to the debris problem, unlike some other proposals to clean up space... The so - called Ballistic Orbital Removal System could be operated inexpensively by launching water on decommissioned missiles out of suborbital launch complexes, such as NASA's Wallops Island in Virginia, he added.»

«To formulate a regime for licensing UK companies» space tourism activities,... BNSC will be looking at proposals over the next few months and asking «stakeholders, which could be space law firms, insurance companies and relevant government departments, their views on space tourism for the manned suborbital flight licensing system it thinks it will need under the UK's Outer Space Act, which became law in 1986.»»