Sentences with phrase «space shuttle fleet»

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — Despite the grounding of NASA's storied space shuttle fleet, American spaceships are expected to make three trips to the International Space Station in the coming months.

NASA, too, is feeling the pinch, as it juggles Mars planning, support of the troubled space shuttle fleet, lagging construction of the International Space Station, and an ambitious program of planetary exploration.

The current space shuttle fleet faces mandatory retirement in 2010, and Constellation missions are set to begin in 2015.

Starting with Discovery, the decommissioned space shuttle fleet will go on display at museums around the country.

* NASA decided to retire its winged Space Shuttle fleet by 2010 to meet President George W. Bush's vision for space exploration following the 2003 Columbia shuttle tragedy.

Learn about the era of deep space exploration with the Mariner, Viking, and Voyager planetary probes, and the creation and successful launch of Americas space shuttle fleet.

He has acted as chief executive of eBizJets, the predecessor company of Sentient Jet which is the largest US business jet charter operator; and co-founded Spacehab, Inc., the first privately - financed commercial space laboratory, which flew numerous missions aboard the US Space Shuttle fleet.

The RS - 25 motors are a modified version of the motors on the old Space Shuttle fleet, so they're considered highly reliable.

With the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet this year, the American astronaut corps has steadily been decreasing in size as U.S. spaceflyers retired or quit their posts.

The driving force behind this latest space race is the impending retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet, sometime in 2010.

NASA's space shuttle fleet and its launch facilities are protected by 40 000 pieces of firefighting equipment containing halon - 1301.

NASA is a couple years away from launching a new giant rocket and crew capsule to replace the space shuttle fleet that was retired in 2011.

NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in July 2011.

Space Shuttle Atlantis was the fourth operational shuttle built and is one of the three currently operational spacecraft in the Space Shuttle fleet.

NASA stopped flying the space shuttle fleet in 2011 and has relied on Moscow for crew access to orbit since then.