Sentences with phrase «space shuttles at»

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.

Reading about the space shuttle is interesting, but seeing an actual space shuttle at the Smithsonian is special.

At Innoventions, they can create their own rollercoaster and ride it, ride a space shuttle at Mission Space or taste some food flavors from around the world at World Showcase.»

Every October, Dryden celebrate the space shuttle at the center's annual Gathering of Eagles Benefit.

The President of the United States puts a space shuttle at the Kongs» disposal, and Cranky is the one to navigate it.

Not exact matches

Look at our space shuttle program, which lost two of its four primary vehicles, and two full crews, in the pursuit of science.

As countdowns go, it may not be as exciting as a Space Shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral or as colorful as a Miss America context, but following the top - five countdown of America's top states for business has its share of suspense.

When he got off the space shuttle, I was there waiting at the hatch, the first thing he said to me when he got off was, «I had no idea what that launch was going to be like.»

And test pilots at that time, when the space shuttle was flying, most of them would apply to become astronauts, and we did, too.

Since the Space Shuttle program was cancelled, NASA has had to rely on Russian rockets to get astronauts into space, something that is very costly for NASA at a whopping $ 80 per Space Shuttle program was cancelled, NASA has had to rely on Russian rockets to get astronauts into space, something that is very costly for NASA at a whopping $ 80 per space, something that is very costly for NASA at a whopping $ 80 per seat.

Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg sketched out a Jetsons - like future at a conference Tuesday, envisioning a commercial space - travel market with dozens of destinations orbiting the Earth and hypersonic aircraft shuttling travelers between continents in two hours or less.

Then the Obama administration killed the Ares program at the same time the shuttle was being retired, and the United States turned to private companies to restore its ability to bring its astronauts to the space station — to bring any of its citizens to space.

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.

We went to the park, went to «coffee» each day, had a play date with a friend a few months younger than him (which he LOVED — someone who played WITH him, not telling him what to do every minute like his sister does), watched a movie of his choosing, ate what he asked for at dinner, built space stations and launch pads out of Legos for his Space Shuttle, and read lots of books togespace stations and launch pads out of Legos for his Space Shuttle, and read lots of books togeSpace Shuttle, and read lots of books together.

The party came at a time when museum officials were trying to persuade the state to allow the construction of a building on a lot across the West Side Highway from the aircraft carrier to house the space shuttle Enterprise.

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.

When he wrote, «Let us make recommendations to ensure that NASA officials deal in a world of reality,» and, «They must live in reality in comparing the costs and utility of the Shuttle to other methods of entering space,» he meant they were at the time not living in reality, which is generally the place engineers ought to live.

The prospective development of a space shuttle — endorsed by a presidential task force in 1969 — had begun diverting attention at the agency, as well.

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.

After the end of the disastrous space shuttle program, it's not at all clear where the space agency is going — or if it has enough money, skills, or buy - in to get there.

In getting back to the moon, NASA space planners face overwhelming challenges: The shuttle is scheduled for retirement in 2010, the Ares rocket will not be ready until at least four years later, there is tepid support from all sides in the looming presidential election, and current estimates put the cost of getting humans back to the moon at $ 100 billion.

The news of the day was about plans for the next launch of the space shuttle, which at first glance seems a mark of high - tech modernity.

In the early 1980s, NASA asked him to look at the space shuttle.

As the shuttle — the centerpiece of American space exploration for the last 40 years — paraded to its final resting place at the city's California Science Center, the future of spaceflight was orbiting overhead: Space Exploration Technology (SpaceX) Corporation's Dragon, an unmanned capsule, was circling 240 miles up, delivering nearly 900 pounds of food, water, and equipment to the International Space Staspace exploration for the last 40 years — paraded to its final resting place at the city's California Science Center, the future of spaceflight was orbiting overhead: Space Exploration Technology (SpaceX) Corporation's Dragon, an unmanned capsule, was circling 240 miles up, delivering nearly 900 pounds of food, water, and equipment to the International Space StaSpace Exploration Technology (SpaceX) Corporation's Dragon, an unmanned capsule, was circling 240 miles up, delivering nearly 900 pounds of food, water, and equipment to the International Space StaSpace Station.

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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.

Now Winglee has the go - ahead from NASA to perfect what could be his most promising trick yet: using an 8 - inch magnet to propel spacecraft at speeds of up to 180,000 miles per hour — 10 times as fast as the space shuttle.

Similar principles are at work in devices ranging from the space shuttle to safety matches

In Florida, you can witness space history in the making at the last shuttle launch.

NASA should consider extending space shuttle launches into 2011 rather than ending the program next fall, flying the international space station at least until 2020, and boosting spending on its flagging technology programs.

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Just as China's naval aircraft carrier was launched soon after they criticized the U.S. for spending too much on defense, undertaking the Tiangong / Shenzhou 8 mission at about the same time as the U.S. space shuttle program ends «is a powerful political signal that China is ascendant, and the U.S. is descending,» Cheng said.

Sirangelo's dream began in 2004, when President George W. Bush announced that NASA would be phasing out the space shuttle program at the end of the decade.

XCOR reps said at a press conference Wednesday that its Lynx suborbital spaceship, still in the prototype phase, will be a two - seat (one pilot, one passenger) craft that takes off like an airplane and glides back to Earth like a space shuttle.

Space shuttle Atlantis is still standing by at the Kennedy Space Center, ready to make a rescue mission if necessary.

Panel member Bohdan Bejmuk, a former manager of space shuttle - related work at the aerospace company Boeing, said he was excited by the options Crawley proposed, but wondered how affordable they would be.

The shuttle fleet will make 16 rather than 28 trips to the space station before retiring in 2010, and from then until the CEV debuts, the country will have no capability to launch astronauts into orbit at all.

Even the Russian Soyuz capsules that are the only route back to Earth since the space shuttle was retired last year are not ideal, because they lack freezers to store the seedlings during the plunge home, says the experiment's lead investigator Imara Perera, a plant biologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Worst of all, a new analysis of the shuttle and space station found them at least $ 2 billion in the hole.

The PAMELA findings, along with others from experiments flown on balloons as a cheaper alternative to the space shuttle, «are a demonstration of the rich science that is likely to be forthcoming from the AMS,» says AMS team member Eun - Suk Seo, a cosmic ray physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Hallegatte estimates that the necessary adaptations would cost each at - risk city an initial $ 3 billion, plus 2 percent of the initial cost each year for maintenance and operation, putting the total yearly cost for the 136 - city sample in the study at about $ 50 billion — a quarter of NASA's space shuttle program.

Hooking up Columbus will occupy most of the shuttle crew's schedule during their week - long stay at the space station.

When the shuttle arrives at the space station two days after its launch, that will mark the end of a Herculean effort costing more than $ 1 billion to establish Europe's first permanent base in space.

President Obama's proposed 2011 budget for NASA would cancel the agency's work on the Ares I rocket, intended to ferry astronauts to orbit after the space shuttle's planned retirement at the end of 2010.

But others say that the shuttle's woes do not cast too long a shadow over the RLV «The lesson from the shuttle is «don't do it the way the shuttle was done»,» says John Logsdon, a space policy expert at George Washington University in Washington DC.

The space shuttle is an ear - splitting, bone - rattling ride, beginning with eight minutes of inertial forces peaking at three g's (three times an individual astronaut's weight) followed by a near - instant, stomach - churning flip to zero gravity.

Pike thinks not — at least not unless there is another space shuttle disaster.

In a discovery with implications for long - term spaceflight and future missions to Mars, a researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has found that mice flown aboard the space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth with early signs of liver disease.

With the space shuttle scheduled for retirement next year and no replacement astronaut launcher at the ready, NASA's hope was to maximize the telescope's longevity and scientific usefulness, giving it another five to 10 years of operational life.

Last week, NASA itself seemed to agree, as the Atlantis space shuttle crew made a televised appearance at Hollywood's Academy Awards ceremony while in orbit.