Sentences with phrase «space missions ever»

NASA astronauts and staff spent 11 months preparing for what would be one of the most challenging space missions ever attempted.

The New Horizons probe has the most distant target of any space mission ever attempted: everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, which it will reach in July 2015.

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The company has produced a stellar sedan — Consumer Reports scored it higher than any other car it has ever tested — and Musk's achievements justify accolades: He co-founded PayPal and has made billions; SpaceX has made multiple missions to the International Space Station.

The only rocket that was ever able to carry more stuff into space than Falcon Heavy was the Saturn V rocket, which was developed and used by NASA for its Apollo moon missions in the 1960s and 70s.

Mar. 21, 2013 — The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins.

In addition to taking manned spaceflights deeper into space than ever before, the proposed mission would also bring some benefit for planetary science.

«The approved designations honour many people and space missions who paved the way for the historic exploration of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the most distant worlds ever explored,» said Alan Stern, New Horizons Principal Investigator from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado.

NASA's nine newest astronauts joined the space agency's ranks in 2009 and have been training to fly on space station missions ever since.

«With these system concept studies, we are taking the next steps to develop capabilities needed to send humans deeper into space than ever before, and ultimately to Mars, while testing new techniques to protect Earth from asteroids,» William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.

The crew, headed by the first female shuttle commander, Eileen M. Collins, accomplished their mission of launching the largest payload ever carried aloft by a shuttle and made a flawless night landing at Kennedy Space Center on July 27.

Over a career that spans the entire Space Age, he has designed some of the first scientific instruments for satellites, directed searches for life - supporting conditions on Mars and above all managed the science team of the Voyager missions that explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune along with their moons — the single greatest expedition ever undertaken.

Golden Spike's plans rank among the most audacious privately funded space exploration missions ever proposed.

Here's a rundown of the top 11 spaceflight stories of 2011, from the last mission of NASA's venerable space shuttle program to China's first - ever docking of two spaceships in Earth orbit

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

Aalborg University has just reported to the ESA on the launch and the first part of the mission where AAUSAT5 and a commercial satellite from GomSpace in Northern Jutland are the first ESA satellites ever sent into orbit directly from the space station.

To measure these minor deformations, scientists sent four gyroscopes into space in a mission called Gravity Probe B. And they found that after circling the Earth some 5000 times the gyroscopes» angle of spin had changed, ever - so - slightly, in response to the Earth's gravitational pull.

Ever since its birth in 1958, NASA has been synonymous with America's manned space program, from the triumphs of the Apollo missions to the disasters of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.

The Chinese space agency launched a new space lab, sent up its longest crewed mission ever and tested out powerful new rockets

The ever increasing power of telescopes and closer surveillance by space missions shows how the physical and chemical natures of these individual worlds have been revealed.

After a decade - long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India — making it the first - ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.

But the mission's scientific objectives aren't the only historic part: TESS also stands out because of the orbital path it will follow around Earth, blazing a course through space that no craft has ever flown.

The mission, perhaps the most ambitious one ever undertaken by the European Space Agency, will now join the comet as it begins a lap around the sun, heats up, and releases stores of ice in a cloud of dust and gas.

Methyl isocyanate has become a target for astrochemists ever since the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission detected the molecule on the comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko 2 years ago.

«The mission saw the development of advanced cryogenic systems, the construction of the largest telescope mirror ever flown in space, and the utilization of the most sensitive direct detectors for light in the far - infrared to millimeter range.»

Astronomers have found some of the youngest stars ever seen thanks to the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributspace observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributSpace Agency mission with important NASA contributions.

The mission will mark the longest period an American astronaut has ever spent in space, and it comes with an extra twist straight out of Hollywood.

This vaguely understood effect has been plaguing all Hubble Space Telescope observations — among them some of the most beautiful data on exoplanet atmospheres — ever since the instrument was installed in the memorable 2009 Hubble Servicing Mission 4.

Even though no concrete evidence of extraterrestrials has ever been confirmed, it seems like every space probe ever launched and scheduled to launch has a «FIND LIFE» stamped in its mission.

Before every successful manned or robotic mission has ever flown to space countless man - hours were devoted for extensive and rigorous testing on the -LSB-...]

Yoder added that the mission is a significant milestone in the U.S. space agency's journey to the Red Planet in a bid to know if life has ever existed there.

«With missions like the James Webb Space Telescope to help us study the details of these planets, we are ever the closer to discovering whether we are alone in the universe.»

The researchers say that trips to the moon — outside of Earth's protective magnetosphere — have only ever lasted a matter of days, but the Mars mission will have to involve months out in open space.

Scheduled to launch in 2018 during «Horizons,» Alexander Gerst's second science mission as a European Space Agency astronaut, «Bake in Space» will experiment with a specialty bread dough in a microgravity oven to bake in orbit for the first time ever.

«To be frank, I had all but given up hope of ever knowing what happened to Beagle 2,» said former Beagle 2 mission manager Mark Sims, of the University of Leicester, in the UK Space Agency statement.

While emphasizing that the «teacher in space» program «has not been canceled,» NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin said in an interview that, contrary to previous public statements, a decision to include Barbara R. Morgan, NASA's teacher - in - space designee, on a mission is unlikely to be made any time soon, if ever.