Sentences with phrase «pioneered human spaceflight»

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The invitation - only Pioneering Space National Summit, held in February in Washington, D.C., yielded a declaration that «the long - term goal of the human spaceflight and exploration program of the United States is to expand permanent human presence beyond low - Earth orbit and to do so in a way that will enable human settlement and a thriving space economy.»

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.