Sentences with phrase «space exploration not»

History of Space Exploration Not all explorers lived in the distant past!

It appears Musk is working hard to develop the infrastructure required to make private space exploration not just affordable, but profitable — and profit is essential for the private sector.

Not exact matches

It was not until 1957, with the Soviet launch of Sputnik - 1 using an R - 7 rocket — a Soviet ICBM also capable of delivering thermonuclear warheads — that the US government began to consider the use of rockets for space exploration.

Under the United Nations Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, for instance, states agreed to explore space for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contaminaSpace, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, for instance, states agreed to explore space for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contaminaspace for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contamination.

«Under the United Nations Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, for instance, states agreed to explore space for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contamination,» Maynard explains, but that was way back in Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, for instance, states agreed to explore space for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contamination,» Maynard explains, but that was way back in space for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contamination,» Maynard explains, but that was way back in 1967.

But while Branson, Bezos and Musk have more than made their mark on the industry, they aren't the only ones who have been taking advantage of our fascination with space exploration.

«We want to invest taxpayer resources in scientific discovery, technology development and space exploration — not in maintaining infrastructure we no longer need,» Charles Bolden, NASA administrator, said in a statement.

So private space exploration, private space flight is not something new, but the way we're doing it, managing it, is different.

Although space will not permit exploration of the point here, it is important to note that Christian thought about just war predated the rise of the modern state system in the 17th century, and rests on fundamental moral principles not essentially tied to that system.

Space does not permit exploration of the many additional important issues to be considered as we proceed with our «war.»

But it doesn't have to stay that way in our minds, and it is actually the transformation of our sight that is becoming spiritual, much the way our Personality is a «personal reality», our Spirituality is the «spirit reality» of our interconnected perceptions, with the Sovereign consciousness of intelligent, creative energy... a.k.a. God... The space contains the spirit, the spirit creates light - forms into time, and the light - forms become the the temples in which the creative one occupies, to explore and recreate from the experiences of exploration.

But the history of our time is no less the stage upon which the drama of salvation is played out than was the history of the fifth century B.C. or the first century A.D. Accordingly, the Christian does not doubt that God is moving with power in the world today — the world of African nationalism, thermonuclear politics, metropolitan planning, and space exploration, The Christian's problem is rather to discover when, where, and how God is moving with such decisiveness as to create a crisis of decision for the church and to summon it and its resources into the struggle.

The directive I am signing today will refocus America's space program on human exploration and discovery... This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint.

The important point to note here is that in this analogy heaven and earth are entirely separate categories, not brought together by modern space exploration.

However, the DPRK doesn't appear to be building missiles as part of a space exploration program.

Return to Mars The UK's involvement with Martian exploration has not ended with Beagle 2 and the British Space Agency is a key participant in the forthcoming ESA ExoMars missions to the Red Planets planned for 2016 and 2018.

I don't know much about China but I noticed that in many areas (space exploration, aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons...), they seem more interested in demonstrating and maintaining a basic capability than really competing with other powers.

Not only would they be interesting places to position a space station, but from there China could perform planetary exploration, both in piloted and automated mode.

What do you say to those who argue that what you're doing is not really contributing to space exploration, it's just providing expensive entertainment for the rich?

«For a long time, comet missions did not have pizzazz,» says Benton Clark, chief scientist for space exploration systems at Lockheed Martin, near Denver.

We're not tapping into other industries — robotics, space exploration, bioinformatics.

He greeted Bush's speech with relief: «It wasn't quite Kennedyesque, but the president said space exploration is important for humankind and the U.S., and that's something we in the space program have been trying to get a president to say for a long time.»

That is the real 2012 forecast: more competition, more technological advance, and — whether NASA does it or not — more progress in the human exploration of space.

Tucker says, adding that he supports space exploration but would prefer that it didn't come at the expense of supporting satellite - studies of Earth.

«I always joke with people that [if it weren't] for the fact that I wear glasses and about 40 or 50 IQ points, I'm sure I could have been an astronaut,» Miller told me when I asked him about his connection to NASA and space exploration.

«We can transport them to worlds they can't otherwise visit or see,» Apsell said, noting that programs on theoretical physics, cosmology and space exploration have been among the most popular over the years.

As the European Space Agency's Philae lander bounced and settled onto the surface of comet 67P / C - G's crumbly nucleus it wasn't just space exploration, it was time trSpace Agency's Philae lander bounced and settled onto the surface of comet 67P / C - G's crumbly nucleus it wasn't just space exploration, it was time trspace exploration, it was time travel.

The question is especially pertinent since Cosmos 1 was conceived by the Planetary Society, a private not - for - profit group of space enthusiasts who raise money for novel and innovative projects that will seed further exploration.

In sharp contrast to Mars One's grand vision of a settlement on another planet, the B612 Foundation has a contained, far more focused conception of private space exploration — not surprising, since it was started by two former NASA astronauts, Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart.

That's not just a hypothesis for our satellite's origins: the latest space racers want to build a lunar staging post for exploration, and settlement, of the solar system (see «China lands on moon, kicks off next lunar space race «-RRB-.

It may sound pathetic, but one of the commonly voiced obstacles to long - range space exploration is the problem of feeding astronauts in a sufficiently nutritious and entertaining way so that they don't go completely insane and instigate homicidal power contests with the onboard computer.

«Starshot may not get us to the stars,» he says, «but it should, at a minimum, help us develop technologies that will be useful in future space exploration.»

While geological processes don't follow a schedule, petrologist Christy Till, a professor in ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration, has produced one way to estimate when Yellowstone might erupt again.

When Voss, now the vice president of space exploration systems at Sierra Nevada and program executive of the Dream Chaser, tells this story, it's not just a former astronaut getting misty.

I wish I could say I was thinking grand thoughts about what it all meant for the future of space exploration, but I was more concerned with making sure I didn't trip on my way out the door.

Neither astronomy nor geology nor space exploration would benefit from a new measurement, so these are not motivations for the new experiments.

Both announcements, contained in a brief but passionate speech the president gave before an audience of lawmakers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, are intended to convince Congress that NASA is not handing over the business of human space exploration entirely to the private seSpace Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, are intended to convince Congress that NASA is not handing over the business of human space exploration entirely to the private sespace exploration entirely to the private sector.

Space exploration is a worldwide endeavor, and the fact that the United States is on top doesn't mean they should be the only ones in it.»

And because of deep space exploration, not all of them are tiny.

Nor is it obvious how grand a grand challenge can be, such as in space exploration: «You can start this kind of activity with small robotic projects, but at some point it doesn't scale up very well,» says Howard McCurdy, a space historian and public policy professor at American University in Washington, D.C. «Nobody knows where the limit is.»

Johnson felt the committee hadn't spent enough time discussing several major NASA programs, including the fate of the International Space Station, the status of several planetary exploration missions, and a proposal by President Donald Trump to kill the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, a $ 3 billion plus instrument under development.

«As president, I believe that space exploration is not a luxury, it is not an afterthought,» Obama said.

This investigation will not only be beneficial for space exploration, but it will also show how communities on Earth with little to no agricultural land and sunlight can grow edible plants in small spaces at relatively low costs.

The Apollo program fit into a sweeping vision of human space exploration — sometimes called the «von Braun paradigm» after rocket scientist Wernher von Braun — that included not just lunar expeditions but winged spaceships, orbiting space stations and piloted missions to Mars.

The budget request also pledges more support for public - private partnerships for U.S. space exploration, but did not include specific funding initiatives.

The Planetary Society, the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and the Coalition for Space Exploration support certain aspects of the legislation, but not the bill in its entirety.

Instead, the asteroid initiative was designed to advance long - term human space exploration in a time when the budget doesn't exist for human missions to the Moon.

Neither NASA nor the companies will reveal what percentage of the development costs are being borne by the taxpayers, although NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Bill Gerstenmaier acknowledged at a 2012 House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T) Committee hearing that the government was paying the majority of those costs and did not disagree when asked if it was 80 - 90 percent.

In the «Proving Ground» stage that follows, the space agency will not only conduct experiments and operations in the cislunar space — the space around the moon — it will also develop and test technologies required for human exploration of Mars.

Even if «Gravity» did not win big at the Oscars it would have been easy to call the film a success, in part due to its box office take as well as furthering awareness of space exploration and helping foster curiosity about NASA and their programs.