Sentences with phrase «spaceflight capabilities»

Russia doesn't have any more Soyuz seats to offer us for purchase, so that leaves a significant gap between when we will need operational human spaceflight capabilities and when we will have them.

Shelby has not been shy about expressing his lack of enthusiasm for the commercial crew program, today calling privately funded vehicles a «fiction» that diverts funding from NASA developing human spaceflight capabilities with SLS.

«Of particular note over the past decade is the emergence of China's human spaceflight capabilities.»

For now, much like Sputnik of yore, each of the Sprites in low - Earth orbit carries a radio transmitter that almost anyone might tune in to with relative ease, serving as a real - world demonstration of emerging spaceflight capabilities that could prove revolutionary.

Not exact matches

Through strategic Space Act Agreements and significant Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contracts, NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) has helped prepare private space companies to lead a new age of American spaceflight.

Painfully aware of the looming break in America's space capabilities, NASA had already begun making plans to seed the commercial spaceflight business.

Boeing is one of three American companies working with CCP to develop safe, reliable and cost - effective crew transportation systems during NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which is intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers.

Chinese breakthroughs in understanding these fundamental particles, like its progress in human spaceflight, Luk says, «demonstrate the capability and potential of China in science and technology, which are on the rise.»

«NASA required we successfully complete the Certification Baseline Review — our first CCtCap (Commercial Crew Transportation Capability Phase) milestone, successfully complete an interim milestone representing work culminating in a significant design review (for us, this was the Delta Integrated CDR (Critical Design Review), our 4th tCap milestone), and meet additional ATP criteria we proposed (that is different for each provider),» Boeing's Kelly Kaplan told SpaceFlight Insider.