Sentences with phrase «space capsule called»

Fifty years ago this February ~ in a 9 1/2 by 6 ft. space capsule called Friendship 7 ~ John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.In a space about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle ~ Glenn orbited the earth ~ three times ~ in 4 hours and 56 minutes.

So far, no customers have backed out, and Musk remains upbeat — even going ahead with plans to develop a reusable manned space capsule called Dragon.

Not exact matches

The class includes six men and three women who have been training to fly on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft and NASA's new deep space capsule, which is expected to be used for the trip to an asteroid called for by President Barack Obama.

Boeing is working on a crew capsule of its own, called the CST - 100, with a view to winning space taxi business not only from NASA but from Las Vegas company Bigelow Aerospace too.

On May 25, just 10 months after NASA's final space shuttle flight, a cargo capsule called Dragon docked with the International Space Station, a first for a commercial space vehspace shuttle flight, a cargo capsule called Dragon docked with the International Space Station, a first for a commercial space vehSpace Station, a first for a commercial space vehspace vehicle.

To do this, the programme includes a design for the Orion crew capsule with up to six seats, the Altair lunar lander, and a new booster system called Ares, which uses components from both the Apollo - era Saturn rocket and the space shuttle.

These so - called Red Dragon missions would adapt the same crewed capsule that SpaceX is developing to help NASA send astronauts to the International Space Station, and place it on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket — whose maiden test flight is scheduled for 2017.

Both the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearings raised questions about other priorities in the NASA budget request — especially funding for robotic Mars exploration — but the focus was firmly on commercial crew versus the Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorizationSpace and Technology Committee hearings raised questions about other priorities in the NASA budget request — especially funding for robotic Mars exploration — but the focus was firmly on commercial crew versus the Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorizationSpace Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorizationspace capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorization act.