And you can't keep a piece
of space hardware under such conditions for its anticipated lifetime of perhaps 10 or 20 years.
These science requirements are then turned into mission requirements that can then be turned into specifications
for space hardware.
«The landing spacecraft... is surrounded by framework and partially cut away, so engineering students can do detailed studies of the design of
actual space hardware,» said Daniel Hastings, of MIT.
A future which will translate those remaining sci - fi visions of the 1960s into a reality; expandable habitats in space, reusing of
existing space hardware, space tourism, a return to the Moon and footsteps on Mars.
Questions swirled around what kind of
space hardware China was building, why, and how the United States should respond.
Board members have decades of combined space involvement, including more than a decade of recent senior leadership experience across NASA
developing space hardware and flying in space.
A selection from Allen's holdings — a wunderkammer, created with
actual space hardware — is on view in his Seattle gallery, Pivot Art + Culture.
However, it is inspiration from the past which is driving forward the future for NanoRacks: «Our vision for the future of space travel is honoring some of the original space station ideas by Wernher von Braun - that is, reusing existing in -
space hardware.»