Sentences with phrase «returned by both astronauts»

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The budget also cancelled the beleaguered Constellation program to build new rockets aimed at returning astronauts to the moon by 2020.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

The Constellation Program had aimed to return astronauts to Earth orbit by 2015 and to the moon's surface by 2020, although independent assessments questioned the feasibility of that timeline.

That includes President Bush, who in January 2004 unveiled an ambitious plan to return American astronauts to the moon by 2020 and to create a lunar base for future missions to Mars.

On return to Earth, the astronauts will be protected by a heat shield that chars and burns — an older, more reliable technology than the shuttle's tiles.

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.

ARM's genesis dates to 2010, when President Obama canceled plans to return to the moon and pledged to instead send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025.

President Barack Obama has given NASA the goal of sending astronauts to the Red Planet by 2035 and safely returning them.

Helen Sharman, Britain's first astronaut, will not be taking a return ride into space following a decision by the European Space Agency to reject all the British candidates for its training programme.

NASA, which landed six crews on the Moon between 1969 and 1972 under the Apollo programme, hopes to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2020.

NASA's newest heavy - lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System, or SLS, was announced by the space agency at the aftermath of the cancellation of the Constellation program by the White House in 2010, which had the goal of returning astronauts to the surface of the Moon by 2020.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin may have made it to the moon, but his journey upon returning to Earth was, by his own account, an even greater challenge.

It was in 2010 that President Obama cancelled the George W. Bush Administration's Constellation program to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2020 as a steppingstone to Mars.

The story of two astronauts (George Clooney and Sandra Bullock) struggling to return to Earth after debris cripples their space shuttle is the first film shot in 3D by Cuarón's frequent collaborator, Emmanuel Lubezki (Tree of Life).

Produced by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment and CBS Television Studios, Extant stars Berry as an astronaut who returns home after a year - long solo mission in space to discover she's pregnant.

N.B. Station 10 on the edge of Hadley Rille lunar canyon was the last stop (for photography only) made by the astronauts before returning to the lunar module.

Under normal circumstances, astronauts get rid of their trash by waiting for a Russian Progress supply ship to take it away or by returning it to Earth on a shuttle flight.