Sentences with phrase «space transportation»

The current high cost of human space transportation is largely tied up in rocket stages that are destroyed after a single use.

The next era of human space transportation can really start as soon as humans decide they want it to.

Last September, NASA picked Boeing and SpaceX to continue to the final phase of developing new U.S. crew space transportation systems in a public private partnership where both the government and the company invest capital in the new systems.

SpaceX is one of the two companies selected by NASA last year to continue with full development of a crew space transportation system to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCAP) contract.

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SpaceX is a Hawthorne, Calif. - based private space transportation company with the goal of a manned mission to Mars within Musk's lifetime.

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government's only manned launch vehicle currently in service.

The FAA, which regulates and encourages the U.S. commercial space transportation industry, also licenses commercial space launch facilities and private sector launches.

George Nield, associate administrator for commercial space transportation at the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates the industry, predicts a hiring boom once commercial flights begin.

This legislation could also be the mechanism to set significant new policy directions for manned and unmanned aviation and commercial space transportation initiatives.

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«I started SpaceX because I wanted to help reduce the cost of space transportation so it would be feasible to establish life on another planet.

«We have a working space transportation system that's being dismantled and there's nothing for certain following it.»

The anger follows the decision by the BNSC to slash funding for the Future European Space Transportation Investigations Programme (FESTIP), a European Space Agency project to review space launcher technology and recommend which European designs should be taken further.

Bigelow director Mike Gold, a member of the Federal Aviation Administration's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee, says the firm is in «advanced discussions» with the commercial Japanese Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS)-- which operates the Kibo module on the ISS for the Japanese Space Agency JAXA — to provide it with an orbiting habitat.

The first full flight will probably be in 2004 or 2005, says Rick Bachtel, deputy director of NASA's Space Transportation Division.

The committee will produce a report in August outlining what it considers to be viable options for human space transportation vehicles and the destinations they could reach.

NASA hopes that through those awards, a U.S. crew space transportation capability will be ready to take astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2017, ending U.S. dependence on Russia for ISS transport services.

The FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation regulates and facilitates commercial space launches and reentries like those of the successful SpaceX test mission last month, which was part of NASA's commercial cargo program.

Boeing thinks it can have the Crew Space Transportation operational by 2015, but that's contingent on funding from NASA.

Since the Space Shuttle program was shuttered, NASA has worked with partner companies to support the emerging commercial human space transportation industry.

«This is a risky business, but we want U.S. industry to be a world leader in this area,» says George Nield, the associate administrator for commercial space transportation at the Federal Aviation Administration.

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If the next decade of human space transportation is about private companies finding and developing cheaper and more efficient ways into Earth orbit, the decade following will be all about space agencies learning how to operate farther and farther from home, with an eventual eye to orbiting and eventually landing humans on Mars in the mid-2030s (per NASA's timeline).

A mission called STS - 1 — short for Space Transportation System - 1 — was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's space shuttle program.

Tesla could leverage SpaceX's broadband network and be a perfect captive customer for the space transportation company.

«Up until this point, space transportation has been an exclusively money - losing proposition, and when things lose money, you don't do a lot of them,» said Jeff Greason, founder and CEO of private space company XCOR.

That doesn't mean there won't be new developments, Boeing's Ferguson said, but that it's possible to get a pretty good look at the future of human space transportation — even space transportation to places far beyond what technology is currently capable of — by looking at the various technologies already under development today and imagining how they'll complement each other in the future.

With a rocket - powered test flight, the billionaire's space transportation company moves closer to its goal of shuttling tourists into space by 2014.

Our robotic spacecraft systems will collapse the cost of access to the Moon, introduce a new commercial paradigm for government missions, democratize lunar research and exploration, and blaze the trail for commercial space transportation and exploration beyond Earth's orbit.

And George Nield, leader of the FAA's Commercial Space Transportation, said «another half dozen locations are knocking on the door.»

«We're happy to present to Space Angels the importance of this technology for the future of space logistics and space transportation.»

Previously, Eric was the Vice President of Government Relations for AGI and President of the Space Transportation Association.

In July he and executives from Boeing's Space Exploration division announced plans for a low - cost manned spacecraft called Crew Space Transportation 100, capable of carrying cargo and up to seven passengers into orbit by 2015.

«We don't want to pretend that we know all the answers today,» says George Nield, FAA's associate administrator for commercial space transportation.

There has been a noteworthy increase in the use of CubeSats and other small satellites for a variety of space missions, says George Nield, associate administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.

«The space elevator could be a catalytic step in our history,» Edwards wrote in his 2002 book (coauthored with Eric Westling), The Space Elevator: A Revolutionary Earth - to - Space Transportation System.

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

We have too small a market,» says Tom Rogers, president of the Space Transportation Association, which represents rocket manufacturers.

SSP would revitalize America by showing that a multitude of space - development - related educational fields, from telerobotics to space transportation, from wireless power transfer to photovoltaics and environmental sciences, are vitally relevant to these great problems.

Members work to secure funding for the major governmental space agencies, NASA and FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST).