Sentences with phrase «spaceflights when»

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Odd that there wasn't a chorus about how government, in the form of NASA, was unable to handle space flight back then, or even back when there were other disasters and failures in our spaceflight program.

«I am an unabashed supporter of space exploration in general and of human spaceflight in particular,» Griffin told Congress in 2003, when he called for a human return to the moon and a trip to Mars.

A stark acknowledgment of a mismatch between goals and budget realities came in February, when, after vehemently vowing not to take «one thin dime» from NASA's space - science efforts to fund human spaceflight, Griffin announced he was doing just that.

Later that year, when the company won the $ 10 million Ansari X Prize for becoming the first commercial organization to launch a reusable, manned rocket ship into space twice within a two - week period, Congress approved a phased approach to regulations for private manned spaceflight, a move that was intended to encourage investment in the field.

«President Obama has once again marginalized America's preeminence in human spaceflight, as well as the American taxpayer, for the benefit of his climate research programs,» said Representative Pete Olson of Texas when Obama released his proposed NASA budget earlier this year.

Designed to examine how spaceflight affects potentially infectious organisms, the Micro-8 investigation will provide new insights into better management and treatment of C. albicans infections when they occur on Earth as well as in space, and may offer ways to combat other microbial pathogens.

It illustrates what people are really talking about when they discuss the future of NASA: the majestic promise of spaceflight, and who gets to fulfill it.

It made history in 2004 when it awarded $ 10 million to aircraft designer Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites for twice sending its SpaceShipOne more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) up into space, still the world's only private manned spaceflights.

We were spurred into action when the Augustine commission, a blue - ribbon panel that President Barack Obama set up earlier that year to review the space shuttle and its intended successor, reported that «the U.S. human spaceflight program appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory.»

When most people heard about the recent report suggesting that astronauts have flown under the influence, I'm sure they worried about NASA's culture, the procedures of spaceflight, and the idea of putting multibillion - dollar pieces of hardware into the hands of boozehounds.

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.

This human microbiome includes opportunistic pathogens, microbes that do not normally cause disease in a healthy person but can provoke an infection when the person's immune system is suppressed, a concern known to occur during spaceflight.

Her focus was on ensuring that «in 2020, when ISS will go away, most likely,» the United States does not face another gap in human spaceflight like today.

Chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz (R - TX), the main theme was how to avoid a disruption in the human spaceflight program when a new President takes office in 2017 as occurred when President Obama cancelled the Constellation program.

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.