Sentences with phrase «servicing by astronauts»

Also unlike Hubble, it is not designed for servicing by astronauts or robotic spacecraft.

Unlike Hubble, it is not designed to be serviced by astronauts.

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The Crystal Esprit itself is an all - suite yacht with butler service, food, drinks, excursions and special experiences, like lectures by astronaut brothers Scott and Mark Kelly, included in the rate.

Tennis legend Billie Jean King and former NASA astronaut Ellen Ochoa will visit UC San Diego on May 23rd to help dedicate the Sally Ride Forever stamp, which is being introduced by the U.S. Postal Service.

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

Thanks to the new Advanced Camera for Surveys, installed 2 years ago by astronauts during the space shuttle's last servicing mission to Hubble, the telescope can now detect those ancient objects.

«The agency hadn't decided this yet,» says Reed, «but Frank knew we would still be servicing Hubble, so by God, let's do it with robots instead of risking the lives of astronauts.»

With the space shuttle facing retirement by early 2011, Obama opened the way for private firms to take over transportation services for NASA's astronauts.

ASAP's complaint comes just two days after NASA held a press conference with its commercial crew partners, Boeing and SpaceX, to herald the progress they are making to provide services to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of 2017.

Though the May 2009 visit to Hubble by astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis was the last scheduled servicing mission for the orbiting observatory (which is expected to remain in orbit until at least 2014), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has already collected galaxies of data from it.

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