Sentences with phrase «space exploration program»

The story is about some billionaire's space exploration program bringing back an alien from another planet, or something like that.

NASA: Human Space Exploration Programs Face Challenges.

This magnificent guide takes an in - depth look at Project Constellation, the bold new initiative designed to bring America's space exploration program into the 21st century.

The Mars rover has turned into a political pawn in heated discussions over proposed funding cuts to NASA that critics say will set deep - space exploration programs back significantly.

But while Cruz is intended on ramping up NASA's manned space exploration program, he wants the agency to focus less on another of its core mission: Earth studies.

But the unmanned space exploration program has done far, far more to push forward scientific knowledge than those missions that include astronauts, which mostly have been limited to earth orbit, other than a few jaunts to the moon that brought back a few rocks, so valuable to science that some have ended up as souvenirs.

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To keep the International Space Station aloft past 2016 (the program's premature end date) and maintain a viable human space exploration program, NASA will have to scrape up another $ 3 billion per year — hard to imagine in a time of trillion - dollar deficits.

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

Federal weather research is likely to face particular scrutiny, said Ornstein, adding that he also expects renewed efforts by the new administration to privatize the nation's 17 federal research laboratories and the federal government's space exploration programs.

In the past, space exploration programs have adopted two main strategies in supplying mission crews with resources: a carry - along approach, where all vehicles and resources travel with the crew at all times — as on the Apollo missions to the moon — and a «resupply strategy,» in which resources are replenished regularly, such as by spaceflights to the International Space Station.

The current chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Competitiveness, Cruz says NASA's human space exploration program is a national priority that deserves congressional support.

During her 2008 campaign Clinton said she was «committed to a space exploration program that involves robust human spaceflight to complete the Space Station and later human missions, expanded robotic spaceflight probes of our solar system leading to future human exploration, and enhanced space science activities.»

This will mark the end of an era in the nation's space exploration program one that has cost trillions of dollars over the years, but has yielded some amazing new knowledge of our place in the universe.