Sentences with phrase «spent upper stages»
Instead NanoRacks is studying how to reuse spent upper stages of launch vehicles and convert them into habitats.
https://www.spaceangels.com/ Not exact matches
It also includes spent upper - stage rockets, used to loft the satellites into orbit, and items that have escaped the grasp of butterfingered astronauts, such as the glove Ed White dropped in 1965 as he became the first American to walk in space, and the tool kit that slipped from Heide Stefanyshyn - Piper's hand during a 2008 space walk.