Sentences with word «rocketry»

So influential were von Braun and his team in almost every major rocket activity in Germany and the US between 1930 and 1970, that this volume effectively represents a history of rocketry in the Western world.

There is irony that many of the advances made in rocketry that even allow us to reach space today came from the government - controlled projects led by Wernher von Braun.

Examples of clubs we've offered include: skateboarding Sim City butterfly garden hiking model making quiz bowl literature French Latin cricket board games tennis pottery origami science model rocketry weather architecture The club offerings change each quarter, and students make their selections for a club by picking their top three choices during an Advisory meeting.

The Team America Rocketry Challenge intends to spark students» interest in aerospace careers and in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Jordan Franssen and Nathan Bernhardt hail from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and represent Penn Manor High School's rocketry team.

Once considered the stuff of science fiction, fully reusable rocketry is now closer to reality than ever before

But Kristian von Bengtson of Copenhagen Suborbitals, the non-profit organisation that built the rocket, said it is still a big step forward for rocketry at rock - bottom prices.

She recounts the fatal lab accident that claimed early rocketry pioneer Max Valier in 1930 with an anecdote full of technical minutiae but taut with drama.

Explanations of modern rocketry are remarkably readable, and there are even tips for space - bound entrepreneurs on lunar - base placement and space suit redesign.

The sections on rocket principles and practical rocketry explain why rockets work and how to make them more efficient.

Best Rocketry Students in US and Abroad.

At its 25th annual model rocket launch Monday at Glen Ellyn's Newton Park, the Northern Illinois Rocketry Association repeated this scene over and over as model rocket builders and fans of all ages stared upward.

When I stopped by an elementary class during Genius Hour, I found students with no shortage of project ideas — from rocketry to the history of ceramics.

Martin Ross, another of the paper's authors, who works at the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., explains that hybrid motors favoured by space tourism companies are safer, cheaper to run, and quicker to refuel than the liquid or solid rocket boosters that have dominated rocketry thus far.

Such talk has a funny way of making the odd rocketry mishap, let alone a few missed factory deadlines, fade rather quickly into the blackness of space.

However, the SLS is also unbelievably expensive — even by rocketry standards.

Guggenheim Foundations, in which he has always played a prominent role, have furthered countless research studies in aviation, jet propulsion and flight rocketry.

Students from Holland High School, Nardin Academy and Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart journey to Washington Friday to take part in this year's National Rocketry Challenge, sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association.

The New Yorkers» brush with Hamas rocketry came as the Israelis agreed to an Egyptian - brokered ceasefire aimed at ending the Gaza War with the Palestinian militant group.

That's because rocketry is the only form of transportation where you throw away your vehicle once you've reached your destination.

They've found that one of the biggest challenges to lunar settlement — as vexing as new rocketry or radiation — is how to live with regolith that covers virtually the entire lunar surface from a depth of7 feet to perhaps 100 feet or more.

«And if you convert it back to molecular hydrogen, all that energy is released, so it would make it the most powerful rocket propellant known to man, and could revolutionize rocketry.»

According to the National Association of Rocketry safety code, model rockets are constructed of paper, wood, plastic and other lightweight materials.

Behind the scenes, the former rivals started crafting a deal that put American taxpayer dollars into Russian rocketry and spacecraft, keeping up operations in orbit.

It records the story of von Braun's life and achievements in the field of rocketry starting from his early work in the late 1920s as a member of the VfR, the German Rocket Society.

His centerpiece is a narrative running from Metropolis to Dr. Strangelove, indicating that the power of film images affected first German rocketry and then, through the von Braun story, American space technology.

If you have faith in NASA, more exciting rocketry options are coming soon.

A biography of the «prophet of the space age» shows what rocketry owes to Willy Ley's preaching through TV, radio and printed media, and even via toy firms

But rising out of the base's lupines and sage is a plain, white «event tent» — one that would look more natural at a bar mitzvah than here at big - league rocketry's West Coast headquarters.

Suddenly, his focus became rocketry and space exploration.

Sounds close, but it would take us millions of years with conventional rocketry to reach it.

There's science through technology, science through seismology, science through rocketry, science through everyday classroom tools, and on it goes.

To learn the programming language, the engineering students are teaching their middle school partners about rocketry.

Consider the enterprising teacher who demonstrates model rocketry using a coat hanger, an inner tube, and a soda bottle, or the crafty fellow who builds a hovercraft out of an old CD, a balloon, and a soda - bottle top.

Partners currently include Ciba Specialty Chemical Corporation, Estes Rocketry, the U.S. Space Foundation, Shell Oil Company, and others.

The scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical foundations of rocketry pr...

He hoped to introduce courses in robotics and rocketry during the summer program and then offer them as extracurricular activities.

Even though I now consider myself a WORD NERD, we still have a lot of geek gifts of Christmases - past in our house, including barometric pressure gages, enough rocketry explosives... Read More

1947, May: Atomic Robo disrupts an illegal rocketry experiment performed by Jack Parsons.

2007 - ongoing: A documentary project engaged with amateur rocketry groups and space museums across the United States.

Do we rush now toward untested geo - engineering options, letting the military industrial complex take charge with expensive rocketry and sulfur cannons?

For example, automobiles had us «putting on the brakes,» radio gave us «tuning in» (or «out»), television gave us «channels,» and rocketry taught us to «blast off,» to name just a few.

Thus, if you're applying for a job in aerospace, absolutely mention that you're into quarter - scale model rocketry.

SpaceX's ambitions include manned landings on the moon and Mars, but it's the reusable rocketry and the satellites that could be more frequently and cheaply launched into space that offer immediate possibilities for investors.

These include Wernher von Braun, rocketry pioneer and Medal of Science winner; William O. Baker, Bell Laboratories research innovator and leader; J. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics; and Tim Berners - Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium.

The city dates back to colonial times and has had a firsthand look at the birth of modern rocketry and some of the innovations that transformed the agricultural industry.

Background information sections are provided on the history of rockets, rocket principles, and practical rocketry.

They might ignore committed Christians like Wernher von Braun and Francis Collins, scientists who led the way in rocketry and genomics.