Sentences with phrase «visited by astronauts»

For the last few years, the agency's envisioned «Journey to Mars» campaign has included the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), an effort to pluck a boulder from a near - Earth asteroid and drag the rock to lunar orbit, where it could be visited by astronauts aboard Orion.

Several scientifically interesting asteroids could be visited by astronauts with flight times ranging from six months to a year and a half using a 200 - kilowatt (kW) electric propulsion system, which is a reasonable advance over our present capability; the ISS currently has 260 kW of solar arrays installed.

After its 1990 launch, the Hubble Space Telescope had a rough early going, which required a visit by astronauts to fit it with corrective mirrors to make it see clearly.

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As part of the series — produced by Darren Aronofsky and narrated by superstar Will Smith — several astronauts give personal anecdotes and perspectives about the planet based on a place few humans who have actually visited outer space.

In a statement, President Obama said of the astronaut and public servant, «John always had the right stuff, inspiring generations of scientists, engineers and astronauts who will take us to Mars and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay... The last of America's first astronauts has left us, but propelled by their example we know that our future here on Earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens.

Tennis legend Billie Jean King and former NASA astronaut Ellen Ochoa will visit UC San Diego on May 23rd to help dedicate the Sally Ride Forever stamp, which is being introduced by the U.S. Postal Service.

Tiangong - 1 is China's first space station; it launched in 2011 and was visited twice by taikonauts (Chinese astronauts).

The visit was marked by some fanfare because it was the first time a naturalized citizen had ever been considered for the job of astronaut.

Astronauts who visit the International Space Station, the high - price and low - profile structure currently orbiting Earth, will be ferried there for the next five years by the Russian reusable space capsule Soyuz.

The Asteroid Initiative is NASA's proposal for implementing President Obama's mandate of sending astronauts to an asteroid by 2025, prior to visiting the vicinity of Mars in the 2030s.

The Hubble space telescope had an unanticipated problem that fortunately was able to be nicely repaired by visiting astronauts.

Though the May 2009 visit to Hubble by astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis was the last scheduled servicing mission for the orbiting observatory (which is expected to remain in orbit until at least 2014), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has already collected galaxies of data from it.

The space station, with a volume of about 15 cubic meters, or 1 / 60th of the International Space Station, was launched at the end of September 2011 and was visited twice by astronauts in the following years.