Sentences with phrase «space shuttle mission»

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

With the possible exception of Columbia and the very first Space Shuttle mission, few orbiters had as dramatic and exciting a maiden voyage as Endeavour.

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

NASA has no plans at present to service the JWST as the Hubble telescope was serviced by space shuttle missions, as the Soyuz spacecraft does not have the range or cargo capacity to reach JWST.

He served as a pilot on space shuttle mission STS - 103 in 1999, commander on STS - 118 in 2007, flight engineer on the International Space Station Expedition 25 in 2010 and commander of Expedition 26 in 2011.

Celebrating STS - 92, the 100th space shuttle mission in October 2000, this jacket features the celebratory 100th NASA badge as well as the official NASA logo, plus the red zipper ripcord.

«We'll probably bring another pilot on board later this year from Boeing Test and Evaluation,» said the company's program director Chris Ferguson, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the final space shuttle mission.

1998 — Dr. Alexander Dunlap (LSU SVM 1989) was alternate payload specialist and ground veterinarian for the STS - 90 Neurolab space shuttle mission flown.

«It's merely an adventure trip,» says Tom Jones, a former astronaut who flew in four space shuttle missions throughout his career with NASA.

Here, NASA astronaut Steven L. Smith tinkers with a Hubble camera during STS - 103, a Discovery space shuttle mission to upgrade the telescope in December 1999.

One of the major goals of the ongoing space shuttle mission — Endeavour's final visit to the International Space Station — was to bestow a 7.8 - ton parting gift: an automated particle detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS - 02, or, more colloquially, AMS), which was attached to the station yesterday.

In his first major speech to astronomers since his controversial decision in January to abandon a planned space shuttle mission to Hubble, O'Keefe explained why.

In a May space shuttle mission to Hubble, spacewalking astronauts completed a slew of repairs and upgrades to the 19 - year - old observatory, including replacing the telescope's workhorse camera with an enhanced successor, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

The engines used on initial SLS missions are flight engines remaining from the Space Shuttle Program, workhorse engines that are among the most proven in the world, having powered 135 space shuttle missions from 1981 to 2011.

More than 30 percent of astronauts who returned from two - week space shuttle missions and 60 percent who spent six months aboard the International Space Station were diagnosed with eye problems.

A quarter - century has now passed since five astronauts roared into orbit to complete the fifth - longest space shuttle mission at that -LSB-...]

The Space Shuttle Challenger Mission (Flight STS - 51L) was the 25th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

* Atlantis was the third Space Shuttle Mission to be launched since the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster.

Wired's review gives the Kindle 3 a 9 out of 10, saying that «the denser e-ink on the new Kindle is going to make a lot of previous Kindle owners jealous,» and that «Battery life is long enough for space shuttle missions».

You are Greg Callahan, leader of a top - secret space shuttle mission to investigate a black hole in deep space.

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.

With the possible exception of Columbia and the very first space shuttle mission, few orbiters had as dramatic and exciting a maiden voyage as Endeavour.

American astronauts had flown dozens of space shuttle missions, and Soviet cosmonauts were building ever more complex space stations, culminating with Mir, Artsebarsky and Krikalev's destination.

A veteran of four space shuttle missions in the 1980s and»90s, Bolden retired as a major general in the Marine Corps in 2004.

this one represents the 100th Space Shuttle mission and includes the official mission and NASA patches plus the iconic red zipper ripcord.

Space Shuttle Atlantis STS - 135 was the final Space Shuttle mission.

John Young, one of only 12 humans to walk on the moon and commander of NASA's first space shuttle mission, has died.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

Though plagued by cost overruns, and a ghastly blunder in manufacturing the main mirror that had to be corrected by a Space Shuttle mission in December 1993 (which, essentially, put corrective eyeglasses on the telescope), the....

Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, veteran of two space shuttle missions to Hubble, recalls how he saved the telescope he loves

Astronaut Norm Thagard exercises to reduce bone loss during his 1995 space shuttle mission.

In 1990, she helped to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope on the space shuttle mission that was piloted by Charles Bolden, now NASA's administrator.

Between 9 and 18 months of training lie behind every Space Shuttle mission.

Harrison: After I set up Symbol Technologies and a venture fund, this gentleman, Bob Citron, came to me in 1984, a few years after the first space shuttle mission, and said: «You know, there's a big, empty cargo bay in the space shuttle.

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

Nimoy also contributed to science - themed projects, such as the 1994 IMAX documentary Destiny in Space, which contained footage from nine Space Shuttle missions.

Ochoa was the first Hispanic woman to go into space and has logged nearly 1000 hours in orbit on four space shuttle missions.

Ochoa was part of the first space shuttle mission to dock with the ISS in 1999.

He was the first person to fly in space six times, the first person to circle the Moon alone, the first Space Shuttle mission commander, and the first to command another Space Shuttle mission.

He asked members of both groups to tell him their estimates of the risk of disastrous failure in each Space Shuttle mission.

The engines that will be used on initial SLS missions will be the same that were used during 135 space shuttle missions by NASA between 1981 and 2011.

The space shuttle mission was exorbitantly expensive.

- Bruce McCandless II, retired NASA astronaut, worked to design Hubble to allow servicing by astronauts in orbit and was a crew member on the STS - 31 space shuttle mission that carried the telescope into orbit in 1990.

Crippen flew on four space shuttle missions, including the very first one in 1981.

After its repair by the crew of the Space Shuttle mission STS - 61, the Hubble Space Telescope was furtheron used to investigate (and photograph) the Orion nebula.

I do think that our program has been stuck for a while — that the space shuttle mission did not inspire the imagination of the public — that much of the experimentation that was done could have been conducted not necessarily with manned flights.

Sandra Bullock is outstanding as Dr. Ryan Stone, a scientist who signs on to a space shuttle mission and then lives through a horrific disaster, with only veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) to guide her.

He who served on three space shuttle missions.