Sentences with phrase «spacefaring nations»

«If the major spacefaring nations push back against that interpretation, it will probably not create a customary usage of the term «use,»» Listner told TechNewsWorld.

Only in the last decade, when multiple spacefaring nations and corporate entities have announced plans to embark on manned exploratory missions to Mars and prolonged habitation on the Moon, has biomedical research been directed towards identifying possible CVD risks associated with the deep space radiation environment.

The all - inclusive annual ASE Planetary Congress, held in a different host country each year, has a long history as the premier forum for astronauts and cosmonauts from all spacefaring nations to meet and exchange information about their respective space agencies, human spaceflight operations and future plans for exploration beyond low earth orbit.

In a 2012 paper Jacques Blamont, a founding director of the French space agency CNES, argued that people are losing interest in the human exploration of space «because spacefaring nations, and especially the USA, have clung on to outmoded cold war ways of thinking about it.

While governments of most spacefaring nations have agreed to abide by the rules, the law is unclear on private companies such as SpaceX and Mars One, who are hoping to beat national agencies to Mars.

These advances, experts say, establish China as one of the top - tier spacefaring nations on Earth and the one with perhaps more momentum than anyone — a status that excites scientists and could inspire other nations to step up their own plans.

A draft of the code — which Russia and China prevented from being adopted in last month's UN discussions — calls for more transparency and «confidence - building» between spacefaring nations as a way of promoting the «peaceful exploration and use of outer space.»

The U.S. is also attempting to tackle the problem through diplomacy, although with minimal success; in late July at the United Nations, long - awaited discussions stalled on a European Union - drafted code of conduct for spacefaring nations due to opposition from Russia, China and several other countries including Brazil, India, South Africa and Iran.

These claims were never recognized by any spacefaring nation.

This stuff, after all, would be speaking not just for one spacefaring nation, but for the entire human species.

«We will be the leading spacefaring nation — unless we get so hidebound into doing things we've done before that we don't want to do anything new.»

In effect, says Rummel, if one spacefaring nation relaxes its protection standards for the sake of commercial ventures, then the barriers come down for all.