Sentences with phrase «which human spaceflight»

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They're typically smaller than rockets that launch satellites and people into space, but structurally, the missiles aren't too different — which is why militaries pay close attention to countries that develop human - spaceflight programs.

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 believe that the human spaceflight program is in the long run possibly the most significant activity in which our nation is engaged.»

The last sector is something I believe Axiom is uniquely able to provide, which is helping more governments get into the business of human spaceflight.

NASA has canceled its human spaceflight program, Constellation, which was supposed to take us back to the moon.

On the human spaceflight side, which accounts for about half of the agency's budget, Congress continued to support both public and private approaches to getting humans into space.

His group also works with NASA to build integrated molecular portraits of genomes, epigenomes, transcriptomes, and metagenomes for astronauts, which help establish the molecular foundations and genetic defenses for enabling long - term human spaceflight.

The White House set up the committee, chaired by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine, to review NASA's plans for human spaceflight, which are currently focused on returning astronauts to the moon by 2020.

Discussing his strong concerns with the President's proposal, Mr. Thomas Young, former CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp., said «A fundamental flaw in the proposed human spaceflight program is a commercial crew initiative which abandons the proven methodology I have described.

Boeing is one of three American companies working with CCP to develop safe, reliable and cost - effective crew transportation systems during NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which is intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers.

Chinese breakthroughs in understanding these fundamental particles, like its progress in human spaceflight, Luk says, «demonstrate the capability and potential of China in science and technology, which are on the rise.»

As the American human spaceflight program began to build momentum, the nation started experimenting with chimpanzees, which are larger and more closely related to humans than are rhesus, squirrel or other monkeys.

For her part, Magnus's main point was that the United States needs a comprehensive national space strategy upon which which it can make decisions about the best roles for the U.S. government, international partners, and the private sector in future human spaceflight.

He follows and reports on human spaceflight progress, as well as the progress of the LightSail solar sail, which is about a year from its next flight.