Sentences with phrase «suborbital spaceflight»

The program actually involves two competitions: The first competition will select a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teacher; applicants will be asked to submit a proposal for an experiment that can be performed on a suborbital spaceflight.

Planetary scientist Alan Stern has been training to do research during a suborbital spaceflight.

The U.S. launched a chimp named Ham on a suborbital spaceflight on Jan. 31, 1961.

Suborbital spaceflight will provide a perfect opportunity for fast to establish itself as capable of handling demanding orbital spaceflight schedules.

For $ 200,000, eager «astronaut customers» soon will be able to take suborbital spaceflights and bounce around in low gravity.

Not exact matches

Private spaceflight company Blue Origin is eyeing crewed test flights of its reusable suborbital space vehicle starting next year.

The NASTAR center is (to date) the only private training facility to meet FAA safety regulations for both orbital and suborbital human spaceflight, which has made them a de facto partner for commercial space companies like Virgin Galacticand Astronauts 4 Hire.

I would love it if Jeff Bezos [the founder of Amazon.com and Blue Origin, a rival spaceflight company] came out and told me the two most difficult things about developing his suborbital ship.

Alan Stern is Associate Vice President of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division in Boulder, Colorado, and chair of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation's Suborbital Applications Researchers Group (SARG).

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.