Sentences with phrase «space vehicles»

No commercial space vehicles are certified to carry humans yet, but the race is on.

The empty deep - space vehicle remains on an orbit around the sun.

What will space vehicles look like in the coming decades?

Space vehicles continually travel back and forth carrying both supplies and humans.

The main thing that most people consider when they're buying a new SUV is how much space the vehicle provides.

This major can lead to a career implementing software for computers, phones or even space vehicles.

Almost one - half worked in the aircraft and parts and guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing industries.

But his achievement isn't really a matter of altitude or new types of space vehicles.

To quote Humanipo, «the invention generates energy for space vehicles from electric energy formed by Casimir - polder force, which occurs between separate surfaces and objects in a vacuum and by the zero - point energy considered as the lowest state of energy.

Lithium hydroxide is used to absorb carbon dioxide in space vehicles and it is alloyed with aluminium, copper, manganese, and cadmium to make high - performance alloys for aircraft.

Young became chief of NASA's Astronaut Office, supervising training of new recruits and helping to develop the shuttle, the first fixed - wing space vehicle designed for reuse.

«Anyone under 50 here has never had a chance to work on a new space vehicle from the start,» says Greg Brauckmann, a NASA Langley aerodynamics and thermodynamics researcher who joined the agency in 1980, when the shuttle was already completed.

In parallel, further TPS concepts for reusable space vehicles were designed.

«Blue Origin's reusable New Shepard space vehicle flew a flawless mission — soaring to 329,839 feet and then returning through 119 - mph high - altitude crosswinds to make a gentle, controlled landing just four and a half feet from the center of the pad,» he wrote in the statement.

The open question has been who ensures the safety of passengers aboard commercial space vehicles as opposed to the uninvolved public on the ground.

For seats on private space vehicles, each of which will require trained pilots and crew.

Musk told a crowd at the 2017 IAC meeting in Adelaide, Australia, that he hopes to start building the 35 - story space vehicle in early 2018, launch the first BFR to Mars in 2022, and use it to land crewed missions on the red planet in 2024 (though he has yet to say how a Martian colony would survive).

It is the only space vehicle from which astronauts have captured a satellite in orbit to be repaired in place, or brought back to Earth for repair and re-launch.

This year, he said, «I was trained as a software developer for KSC's new firing room, where they will launch future manned and unmanned space vehicles, and spent most of my time developing code to test the various software displays for the liquid oxygen tank that is out at the launch pad.»

To prepare for it, mission controllers outfit the deep - space vehicle with a high - thrust chemical rocket stage, carried up from Earth by an electrically propelled resupply tug.

By 2012, almost 70 % of Noise Solutions» gross — or $ 8.7 million — was coming from a range of international clients, among them NASA, which bought massive, high - tech mufflers for the enormous contraption known as the «crawler transporter,» that shuttles space vehicles out to the takeoff pad.

His machine now hangs in the Smithsonian — a stone's throw away from SpaceShipOne, the first private manned space vehicle.

A former Internet mogul who in 2002 sold his online payment company, PayPal, to eBay for $ 1.5 billion in stock, Musk now runs SpaceX in El Segundo, Calif., which is developing an orbital space vehicle.

Concepts for wholly new hybrid rocket / air - breathing engine technologies, like those pioneered by U.K. - based Reaction Engines for its still highly conceptual Skylon space vehicle, could in the next decade materialize in runway - to - runway spaceplanes that can go to space and back relatively cheaply and with very fast turnaround between flights — something like a Boeing 777 for orbital destinations.

Private spaceflight company Blue Origin is eyeing crewed test flights of its reusable suborbital space vehicle starting next year.

From our 20th century scientific perspective in which we have seen space vehicles that rise into the atmosphere, we might suppose that the ascension placed our Lord into orbit rather than into heaven.

Led by Dr Michele Perchonok, the scientists note that no US space vehicle, with the exception of Skylab, has ever been fitted with a refrigerator or freezer and therefore all foods must be thoroughly treated during processing to inactivate the micro-organisms responsible for spoilage.

This would cause each wafer - like probe to accelerate to 20 percent of the speed of light (or about 134,000,000 mph)-- about 1,000 times faster than today's fastest space vehicles.

It might even be possible to launch space vehicles from Earth on the back of a powerful laser beam.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California: the birthplace of Sojourner, Cassini, Galileo, and most other unmanned NASA space vehicles, JPL specializes in the robotic exploration of space.

These efforts range from basic research about how polymers and other materials will react during the heating and deposition process to more industrial applications, such as developing a lower - cost, high - temperature process for working with thermoplastics used to make air and space vehicle components.

The following year, he and Colozza wrote a paper for the now - defunct NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) about the use of electrohydrodynamics, or ionized particles, as an alternative to liquid fuel for powering space vehicles.

Musk said that he plans to replace all of SpaceX's other space vehicles — the Falcon 9 and Falcon 9 Heavy rockets and the Dragon capsule — with this new system.

Interstellar space vehicles can not be excluded a priori, but in all cases they would be a slower, more expensive and more difficult means of communication.

A larger, outdoor Martian landscape will be used to test the manoeuvrability of automatic space vehicles.

The first vehicle to go through its paces at Toulouse will be the Russian space vehicle Marsokhod, which is scheduled to travel to Mars in 1996.

Mars, or a small part of it, is to be recreated near Toulouse in order to test space vehicles.

At the end of their stay, they board a launch vehicle filled with locally manufactured fuel, blast off to Mars orbit, rendezvous with a deep - space vehicle derived from the asteroid campaign and return to Earth.

When the month is up, the ion drive nudges the deep - space vehicle away from the asteroid and onto a six - month trajectory back home.

After the stage is attached and the crew is onboard, the deep - space vehicle free - falls from the vicinity of the moon down to just above Earth's atmosphere to build up tremendous speed.

The module provides battery power, fuel storage, and rendezvous and docking capability for Soyuz and Progress space vehicles.

The New Shepard space vehicle blasts off on its first developmental test flight over Blue Origin's West Texas Launch Site.

The Drej mother - ship destroys Earth with an energy beam just as hundreds of space vehicles manage to escape with the last of mankind aboard!

His new rival (Armie Hammer) has a sleek black menace and the electronic purr of a Tesla, the quiet growl of a George Lucas space vehicle.

Scientists can land the Sojourner space vehicle on Mars with pinpoint accuracy.