Sentences with phrase «trips to the space shuttle»

«There's no air on the moon, so parachutes don't work,» says Tom Jones, a former NASA astronaut who made four trips to the space shuttle.

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«I think he's not going to be able to deliver on those promises,» says Tom Jones, a former astronaut who made four space shuttle trips between 1994 and 2001.

From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA's new space capsule, take an entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.

The skull went first to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's PaleoLab in Pittsburgh, then made a brief trip to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuspace shuttle.

Even during the shuttle era, astronauts often waited years after basic training to be assigned a trip into space.

Instead, for the past three decades we've been relegated to nothing more than trips to low Earth orbit in space shuttles and a space station going around in circles growing plants and taking pictures of the weather.

The shuttle fleet will make 16 rather than 28 trips to the space station before retiring in 2010, and from then until the CEV debuts, the country will have no capability to launch astronauts into orbit at all.

HOUSTON — NASA's last space shuttle ever to visit the International Space Station cast off from the orbiting lab early Tuesday (July 19) to begin one final trip back to Espace shuttle ever to visit the International Space Station cast off from the orbiting lab early Tuesday (July 19) to begin one final trip back to ESpace Station cast off from the orbiting lab early Tuesday (July 19) to begin one final trip back to Earth.

Space Shuttle Enterprise takes a trip up the Hudson River to its resting place aboard the USS Intrepid.

My LA trip recap is coming up this week; and it will include details about our visit to the California Science Center, and seeing the space shuttle Endeavour in person!!

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