Sentences with phrase «space shuttle flights»

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

Train like an astronaut in the essential functions of space shuttle flight with high - tech simulators inside Space Shuttle Atlantis ®.

During her last Space Shuttle flight in 1998, she served as payload commander, overseeing 23 science and technology experiments, as well as supervising the delivery of 4000 kg of equipment, hardware, and water destined for the Russian MIR space station.

This week includes the 57th anniversary of the first human spaceflight — Yuri Gagarin's one - orbit ride aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and the 37th anniversary of the first U.S. space shuttle flight — STS - 1 on April 12, 1981, with John Young and Bob Crippen at the controls.

Astronomer Don Brownlee's third floor office is cluttered with space paraphernalia, much of it tinged with a whiff of nostalgia for past triumphs: a piece of insulating tile from the first space shuttle flight; a plaque from the first U.S. satellite; models of pioneering solar - system probes.

Mark Kelly, the husband of wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, will command the STS - 134 space shuttle mission to deliver the AMS to the International Space Station: Rep. Giffords's husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, plans to command April space shuttle flight

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.

Space shuttle: 10 flights to go before retirement NASA has set target launch dates for the final eight space shuttle flights before the program is mothballed in 2010.

A series of corrective mirrors were fixed to the telescope in an unprecedented series of five spacewalks in a single space shuttle flight.

Kelly's twin brother, retired astronaut Mike Kelly, who embarked on four space shuttle flights during his own career, will remain on Earth during the mission so that scientists can use the siblings to learn more the risks of space exploration.

In the newer book, the team forms at a much younger age, with a teleportation experiment being the impetus of their powers, rather than a botched space shuttle flight.

On May 25, just 10 months after NASA's final space shuttle flight, a cargo capsule called Dragon docked with the International Space Station, a first for a commercial space vehicle.

U.S. space shuttle flights are launched at Cape Canaveral.

The 22 - lb suit is pretty similar to the space shuttle flight suit, though it's used to protect people who fly inside Russia's Soyuz spacecraft (which NASA pays an increasingly hefty sum to use for its own astronauts» travel to and from the space station).

The space shuttle flight risk was four times higher than that.

«Today it costs over a billion dollars for a space shuttle flight,» says Space X founder, Elon Musk.

Chris Ferguson, commander of the final space shuttle flight, virtually returns to space in the Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 simulator.

Fifteen years ago, this week, a space shuttle flight which very nearly didn't happen, happened.

Selected as an astronaut by NASA in January 1990, Wisoff is a veteran of four space shuttle flights.

Dr. Heywood R. Floyd (William Sylvester) wakes from a space shuttle flight, video - phones his daughter on her birthday, and addresses a stuffy - looking room full of guys in suits.

The new ideas provoked a few scientists to take a look at how the upper atmosphere might be affected by another ambitious project — the hundreds of space shuttle flights that NASA hoped to launch.