Sentences with phrase «space shuttle landings»

Edwards test pilots were the first to fly high enough to see the curvature of Earth, and NASA used the base's runways for 57 of the 135 space shuttle landings.

We can make a space shuttle land on a dime after circling the heavens, but we have no cure for the common cold; the strongest athlete can be struck down by an invisible microbe.

I've wanted to test the top speed of our Venom GT Spyder, without the roof, ever since our coupe ran 270.4 mph on the Space Shuttle landing runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 2014.

Blazing down the 3.22 - mile space shuttle landing strip, a stunning hyper - car, called the Hennessey Venom set a brand new high water mark for street legal automobiles.

Not exact matches

In comparison, the main space shuttle orbiter has a maximum landing weight of 230,000 pounds.

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.

In contrast, the space shuttle orbiter has a maximum landing weight of 230,000 pounds.

The only downside was that I'd miss the Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at LAX by an hour, but I knew the Oakland opportunity would be worth it.

At this point in history — with moon landings in the distant past, the space shuttle recently retired, and manned missions to Mars decades off — these may seem like mere theoretical concerns.

Atlantis has landed and the shuttle programme is over but it is far from the end of US space flight.

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.

With colorful characters, a heart - pounding technical glitch and a whiff of Cold War intrigue, White details the space shuttle program's evolution from idea to thrilling liftoff and safe landing.

Residents of southern California were treated to a pair of sonic booms as the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour passed overhead yesterday en route to its safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base.

It also allows the space shuttle to glide back to Earth for a runway landing.

NASA already uses Stubbs» method to check the behaviour of the body flap that slows space shuttles down after they land.

The space plane will land on a runway, while the rocket, after delivering its payload, will fly back to the ground like the space shuttle.

Although the shuttle landed unharmed, the agency again grounded its fleet, making clear the need for a better way to get astronauts into space.

When the shuttle docked with Russia's Mir space station last month, many of us were transported straight back to the excitement and awe of the Moon landing.

To learn more about landing maneuvers, read How Space Shuttles Work.

Without knowing the shape of pilin, it wasn't clear where the aromatic residues landed in space or how they contributed to electron shuttling.

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In an address to the nation on Saturday 1st at 4.45 EST, President George W. Bush confirmed the space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven were lost after the Orbiter broke up during reentry on its landing approach to the Kennedy Space Cespace shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven were lost after the Orbiter broke up during reentry on its landing approach to the Kennedy Space CeSpace Center.

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Nearly two years after it launched, the US Air Force's reusable, unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle ended its classified mission on Sunday, becoming the first spacecraft in nearly six years to touch down at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing...

All is Lost Year: 2013 Director: J.C. Chandor The parallels between Gravity and All Is Lost are obvious: A lone protagonist survives the destruction of her or his space shuttle / boat, loses all communication with Earth / land and must navigate solo through the vastness of space / the ocean to get back home.

Meanwhile, the space shuttle, piloted by Commander Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood) and Major Rebecca Childs (Hilary Swank) flies dangerously off - course and is forced to make a crash landing.

Instead of relying on capsules that would merely plummet back to Earth after their flight, the space shuttle could be piloted back, landed and re-launched.

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The drag race is the culmination of Motor Trend's Best Driver's Car competition and this year it took place at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on the 15,000 - foot runway that was built back in the 1970's for landing the Space Shuttle.

To say the vehicle requires a large turning radius is like saying the space shuttle needs a long landing strip.

The developers at Microgaming have decided to skip on this standard bonus feature and incorporate a much more interactive bonus game but to get there, you first need to land three or more scattered space shuttles anywhere on the reels.

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

What was true as the Apollo missions headed off for the moon is all the more so now, as the last space shuttle prepares for landing.

Similarly, vivid memories of one's personal circumstances when learning of important and surprising items of public news — the assassination of JFK, the moon landing, the death of John Lennon, the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the resignation of Margaret Thatcher, 9/11, to name but a few — have also been found to be highly accurate and to persist over many years.