Sentences with phrase «spaceflight at»

SpaceX is the undisputed king of commercial spaceflight at the moment, thanks in large part to its highly efficient method of landing and reusing its Falcon 9 rocket boosters.

John Karas, vice president and general manager of human spaceflight at Lockheed Martin, recently declared, «I don't think there is a business case for us.»

Not exact matches

The Aerospace Corp., a nonprofit spaceflight research company, has released its newest prediction about the derelict spacecraft's doom: Tiangong - 1 should reenter Earth's atmosphere on April 1 at 8:18 p.m. ET, give or take two hours.

A look at how Elon Musk and other famous entrepreneurs are kickstarting America's fledgling spaceflight and space exploration industries.

Before Uber, he spent a decade working at Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spaceflight company.

However, the Falcon Heavyfailed to impressthe spaceflight department at NASA.

Carl Ade, assistant professor of exercise physiology, and collaborators partnered with the Johnson Space Center to find that astronauts» exercise capacity decreases between 30 and 50 percent in long - duration spaceflight because the heart and small blood vessels are not as effective at transporting oxygen to the working muscle.

At 3:50 p.m. Eastern on February 6, the private spaceflight company launched the Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time.

DISCOVER spoke to Burt Rutan about his inspiration for SpaceShipOne, what SpaceShipTwo passengers can expect to get for their money, why the future of spaceflight doesn't belong to NASA — and the aftermath of a recent explosion at one of Rutan's test facilities during a test of rocket motor components that killed three people and severely injured three others.

In the past, space exploration programs have adopted two main strategies in supplying mission crews with resources: a carry - along approach, where all vehicles and resources travel with the crew at all times — as on the Apollo missions to the moon — and a «resupply strategy,» in which resources are replenished regularly, such as by spaceflights to the International Space Station.

If you look at the ISS from the standpoint of the world stage and the advancement of America's ability to lead in spaceflight, I think it has been huge.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

With so much under review at NASA right now in terms of human spaceflight, are there any other sites on the table that are being looked at for launches?

Conrad, speaking from the audience at the press conference, said that her late husband had become very interested in commercial spaceflight near the end of his life.

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 Station.

The lack of even one openly gay or lesbian living astronaut in the history of American spaceflight may reflect the culture at the NASA astronaut office

At first, commercial spaceflight will draw big names and big headlines.

The effects of long - term spaceflight aren't fully understood even today, but the cosmonaut faced at minimum an increased risk of cancer, cataracts, nasal congestion, muscle atrophy, bone loss, infection and even immune system problems.

If you have a PC and an Internet connection, you can download — for free — the Orbiter spaceflight simulator, developed by Martin Schweiger, a physicist at University College London.

«They didn't just put it on the blackboard, do a few dry runs, and kick it in the air,» says James Oberg, a spaceflight consultant who spent 22 years at NASA mission control.

At the turn of the 19th century, visionaries like Jules Verne and H. G. Wells spun tales of spaceflight and underwater adventure.

The effect of hormone treatments on bone mineral density (BMD) is another issue for spaceflight, where astronauts lose bone at a much higher rate than on Earth.

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.

To find out more about the origin and future of the Perseids, we spoke to Bill Cooke, the Meteoroid Environment Office lead at the NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala. [An edited transcript of the interview follows.]

«Prior to this study we really didn't have much information on the impact of spaceflight on the liver,» said the study's lead author Karen Jonscher, PhD, an associate professor of anesthesiology and a physicist at CU Anschutz.

Celebrate the anniversaries of both Yuri Gagarin's first manned spaceflight, in 1961, and the 1981 inaugural launch of NASA's space shuttle, at parties and space exploration outreach events around the globe.

NASA's space shuttle programme manager John Shannon made the remarks in a presentation to a committee reviewing NASA's human spaceflight plans at the request of the White House and chaired by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine.

Flight - test data gleaned during a Red Dragon mission would be available to NASA at a fraction of the cost and about a decade sooner than NASA could do it, Philip McAlister, director of NASA's Commercial Spaceflight Development Division in Washington, D.C., told a colloquium last week.

«A current stated interim goal of NASA's human spaceflight program is to visit an asteroid by 2025,» said Albert Carnesale, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who chaired the committee that authored the report.

«Spaceflight data is hard to come by; we should remember what's already been done, so we can make the most of new opportunities to do human research in space,» said corresponding author Dr. Virginia Wotring, associate professor of the Center for Space Medicine and pharmacology and chemical biology at Baylor College of Medicine.

She received her PhD from The Ohio State University in May 1997, subsequently serving in a number of different positions from a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics from 1997 - 2000, to a position at the National Academy of Sciences as a program officer with the Office on Public Understanding of Science from 2001 - 2003 to a Program Planning Specialist position at NASA Headquarters, culminating in a position at Goddard Spaceflight Center as the Education and Public Outreach Lead for the Astrophysics Science Division.

Tuck Stebbins, head of the gravitational astrophysics laboratory at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, described the detectors as the «most complex machines humans have ever built.»

A Shuttle - Mir veteran and a spacewalking virtuoso will join the ranks of other spaceflight legends on the afternoon of Saturday, May 3, at the Kennedy Space Center -LSB-...]

According to CBS News and Spaceflight Now reports, the images were captured Monday when Juno soared above the 10,000 - mile wide anticyclone at an altitude of approximately 5,600 miles.

«The SHERLOC instrument is a valuable opportunity to prepare for human spaceflight as well as to perform fundamental scientific investigations of the Martian surface,» said Marc Fries, a SHERLOC co-investigator and curator of extraterrestrial materials at Johnson Space Center.

Let's do everything all at once in the human spaceflight and stay focused on getting to Mars by setting a date.

«The main problem is that we do not have a clear long - term goal for the national human spaceflight program,» said Mike Gruntman, a professor of astronautics at the University of Southern California, to The Christian Science Monitor.

The Agency also is looking to the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide the MPCV Service Module, a critical component of the new spaceflight system, for at least one test flight.

According to Les Johnson, a senior technical advisor for NASA's Advanced Concepts Office at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, solar sails could propel us to the stars one day.

Developing both simultaneously is a «challenge» in the current budgetary environment and we «need to look at these programs supporting each other and, ultimately, the human spaceflight for the nation.»

David Lagomasino, a remote sensing scientist at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center and co-investigator on the project, told Earther that the southwestern toe of Everglades National Park and Ten Thousand Islands — a vast network of coastal mangrove islets and marshes near Everglades City — were hit hardest by the storm.

At the two - day International Symposium for Personal and Commercial spaceflight in October 2016, the decommissioning of the ISS was one of the major talking points.

«To me, the best thing about being on a new mission is not finding the stuff that you expect to find, but finding something you didn't expect,» Stephan Rinehart, TESS project scientist at Goddard told Spaceflight Insider.

This week includes the 57th anniversary of the first human spaceflight — Yuri Gagarin's one - orbit ride aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and the 37th anniversary of the first U.S. space shuttle flight — STS - 1 on April 12, 1981, with John Young and Bob Crippen at the controls.

But, as corny as it sounds, for those who believe in the majesty of spaceflight, for those who are keen to marvel at how pernicious our plucky little species can be, Surviving Mars is SimCity with soul.

Thomas was previously a Daniel C. Guggenheim Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and is now preparing an exhibition about Robert Rauschenberg's interests in NASA and spaceflight.

Artist Statement «With 27 years of service to the Shuttle Program, Discovery had more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date at 39 successful launches.

More than 40 years after Neil Armstrong's giant leap, spaceflight is still too expensive for the average citizen, at least those unable to pay Virgin Galactic $ 200,000 for a 15 - minute suborbital ride.

And scientists will be see if this unique spaceship will become the prototype for long term interstellar travel.Some scientists believe that such solar sail technology holds the key to long term exploratory spaceflight, according to the Associated Press.The solar sail spacecraft are designed to be propelled by accumulating photons, not solar winds, and though slow - moving at first, would eventually be able to reach tremendous speeds.

If you love spaceflight but want first person experience, Anshar Wars 2 will make you feel right at home.