Sentences with phrase «space shuttle»

The technologically compromised space shuttle program has just come to an end, with no successor.

He is also a licensed commercial pilot and was once a finalist for the position of space shuttle mission specialist.

The RS - 25 engines are former space shuttle main engines for the first few flights.

Model jet fighters and even space shuttle prototypes have been painted with this stuff and tested in wind tunnels in an effort to make them fly better.

At present, it boasts a functioning space shuttle, 11 planets, three moons and scant alien life.

There's nowhere else where people can enter a replica of a real space shuttle.

Then again, the last attempt to coordinate led to the painful compromises of the outgoing space shuttle — so that might not be such a bad thing.

The plant - eating giant, which could not even fit in a single room, would have weighed more than 70 tons — or nearly the same as an empty space shuttle.

The article said that the Japanese Space Agency was inviting Japanese candidates for a chance to conduct space experiments aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle in 1988.

This was the toilet on space shuttle Columbia.

After myriad delays and budget overruns, the Hubble Space Telescope finally roared toward orbit on space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.

Others describe the situation more bluntly.NASA, grown skittish because of the losses of space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, has become too risk - averse.

Next up Peck will reteam with the lovely Olivia Thirlby (Juno) for What Goes Up (formerly titled Safety Glass), about a reporter who is sent to cover the Challenger Space Shuttle launch only to become mixed up in the lives of some local students during the mid-1980's.

Luminous Landscape — Photography in Space — Alan Poindexter — A series of photos by the commander of the penultimate mission of space shuttle Discovery.

Spectators watch from the Rotary Riverfront Park pier as Space Shuttle Endeavour launches from Kennedy Space Center Aug. 8, 2007.

She became an astronaut in 1977 and flew in space shuttle missions in 1983 and 1984.

AiroCide technology was first launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia, mission STS - 73.

Bose loves to brag about inventing noise cancelling technology for Space Shuttle astronauts years before any other headphone company was considering it.

Several follow - up experiments on space shuttle flights over the next few years will look to see whether other bacteria undergo similar changes in virulence in microgravity.

Dakota was instrumental in NASA's efforts to recover debris and crew after seven astronauts died when Space Shuttle Columbia exploded in 2003.

Represented a manufacturer in claims arising out of failed deployment of two satellites from Space Shuttle.

You can now get up close and personal with Space Shuttle Endeavour.

From SpaceX stepping into the void the closed NASA Space Shuttle program to news about the planets - including a possible new large one, click here for all the news regarding space, the universe and beyond.

Hubble 3D (G) Intergalactic, IMAX documentary, narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, offering an awe - inspiring view of our celestial surroundings while recounting the brave effort of Space Shuttle Astronauts Scott Altman, Andrew Feustel and Michael Good to repair the Hubble telescope during a daring spacewalk.

For example, a space rocket designer might want to consider the risk of a one - time failure in a specific reusable rocket booster seal, which was the cause of the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986.

Having derived its underpinnings from the F - Type, Terry was able to withstand 6.5 G - Force, which is greater than the forces experienced by space shuttle pilots as it sped through the loop.

Now a curious calm has fallen on these formidable beasts — the engines from the recently retired space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour — as they await a new role in human space flight.

At the age of 8 I got up at 3 am to watch the very first space shuttle launch from t - minus 2 hours and 20 minutes.

A winged, arrow - shaped spaceship, the Pan American, dart - like space shuttle Orion [a phallic symbol or representation of «sperm»], soars from Earth through space toward the Moon, bound first for Space Station 5 - a wheel - shaped way - station for passengers traveling on to the lunar surface.

So Noah's Ark would have held the weight of more than 6 space shuttles at maximum landing weight just with the 2 blue whales alone.

Engineers at NASA's Stennis Space Center conducted a test of the Space Launch System's (SLS) RS - 25 engine, pushing the design to the highest level ever recorded for the powerhouse previously used to send Space Shuttles into orbit.

Just two months after the US space shuttle programme ended, a crash has cast doubt on the safety of the Russian Soyuz rockets that are now the only way to ferry people to the ISS.

According to SpaceX, Falcon Heavy is capable of carrying roughly 2.6 times as much stuff as the US space shuttle program did:

The stratosphere is the blue layer in the image above, taken by the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992.

Now the BBC, in conjunction with the Science Channel, will produce a movie «about the search for what caused the 1985 Challenger Space Shuttle explosion» and they've rounded up a pair of American actors to lead the procedural film: William Hurt and Bruce Greenwood.

A display of aurora australis, or southern lights, manifesting itself as a glowing loop, in an image of part of Earth's Southern Hemisphere taken from space by astronauts aboard the U.S. space shuttle orbiter Discovery on May 6, 1991.

Another screen flickers into action, and soon the Atlantis space shuttle appears against a backdrop of clouds.

But we're not talking about space shuttle launches or moon landings here, we're talking about climate science.

Its all - electric Chevrolet Corvette, dubbed the Genovation Extreme Electric car (GXE), hit 205.6 mph on the runway used for space shuttle landings at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

From Mama Smiles there is this amazing Cardboard Space Shuttle which would be the perfect Rocket Racing Car to go with the book including the lights in the dashboard.

Last week there were used battleships for sale on e-bay, this week we've got used space shuttles.

The mice spent time orbiting Earth on the final space shuttle flight in 2011.

For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer.

Space Shuttle Enterprise takes a trip up the Hudson River to its resting place aboard the USS Intrepid.

On this studio visit with the artist, who was born and raised minutes away from NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, in Houston, and now lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Vargas - Suarez makes a painting from the live feed of a space walk on May 20, 2011, during the next - to - last Space Shuttle mission.

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