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With SpaceFlight Insider seeking to expand the amount of science articles it produces, McIntyre was a welcomed addition to our growing team.

Along with spaceflight tycoon Peter Diamandis, Kurzweil has launched Singularity University, which brought in its first batch of students in the summer of 2009.

With only a couple months left in a four - year - long race, two well - known spaceflight heavy hitters — SpaceX and Boeing — have been joined by a seeming underdog: Sierra Nevada Corp., a 51 - year - old company with spaceflight cred that includes supplying the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo engine.

The study, «Brain structural plasticity with spaceflight,» appeared in the journal Nature Microgravity.

But before spaceflight can become as commonplace as the commercial CEOs hope, the industry needs to solve the regulatory problems associated with spaceflight.

Not exact matches

Prior to launch, Aurora Station travelers would have three months of training, beginning with online courses to understand «basic spaceflight, orbital mechanics, and pressurized environments in space.»

Both coming and going, spaceflight can threaten tourists» health, with potential dangers from higher gravitational forces during acceleration, and space motion sickness that strikes some people in low and zero - gravity.

The U.K. government has set its sights high with a new # 10 million ($ 12.5 million) investment in commercial spaceflight.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

One concerted direction Bezos is boldly leading his charges toward these days is space, with the blast off of his private spaceflight startup Blue Origin.

Consider for a moment SpaceX, which launched the first - ever commercial spaceflight to dock with the international space station.

The trip included VIP tours of a number of leading entrepreneurial space companies (including some of our portfolio companies), a high - altitude balloon launch with Stanford's Student Spaceflight Initiative, and special guests including Pete Worden and Steve Jurvetson.

Boeing is on course to reignite American human spaceflight with its CST - 100 Starliner, a 21st century space capsule that will take people to and from low - Earth orbit.

«Future spaceflight missions could involve four to six crew members living in a confined space for an extended period of time, with limited communication.

With its LightSail project, the Planetary Society aims to take the next step in its decades - long quest to transform spaceflight

To further develop the Neptune concept towards spaceflight, the researchers were interested in understanding how the plasma interacts with the acceleration system so that a charge - neutral beam is generated.

Carl Ade, assistant professor of exercise physiology, and collaborators partnered with the Johnson Space Center to find that astronauts» exercise capacity decreases between 30 and 50 percent in long - duration spaceflight because the heart and small blood vessels are not as effective at transporting oxygen to the working muscle.

While the research is key to planning for future long - duration spaceflights, such as journeys to Mars or deep space, it also can help understand blood vessel function in older patients or patients with heart failure.

The first tests of the CEV's rocket are scheduled for 2009, with manned flights to low Earth orbit beginning by 2014 (even that hard - charging schedule will leave a gap in America's manned spaceflight program after the planned retirement of the shuttle in 2010).

Starting in 2009, tourists with deep pockets will be able to enjoy something fewer than 500 people have been lucky enough to experience — spaceflight.

In the past, space exploration programs have adopted two main strategies in supplying mission crews with resources: a carry - along approach, where all vehicles and resources travel with the crew at all times — as on the Apollo missions to the moon — and a «resupply strategy,» in which resources are replenished regularly, such as by spaceflights to the International Space Station.

One of NASA's goals is to minimize the health risks associated with extended spaceflight, so it is critical that methods for preventing and treating spaceflight - induced illnesses be developed before astronauts embark upon long - duration space missions.

With so much under review at NASA right now in terms of human spaceflight, are there any other sites on the table that are being looked at for launches?

«This research will help prepare astronauts for spaceflight and it improves our understanding of how muscles respond to long periods of inactivity in association with hypoxia.

For now, much like Sputnik of yore, each of the Sprites in low - Earth orbit carries a radio transmitter that almost anyone might tune in to with relative ease, serving as a real - world demonstration of emerging spaceflight capabilities that could prove revolutionary.

They also worked with the U.S. State Department to ensure the project did not violate strict federal regulations limiting exports of spaceflight hardware.

The challenge of human spaceflight is that you deal with energies that are much greater than those found in most engineering problems.

The final authority on private astronauts rests with individual companies and with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the regulatory agency that grants licenses for all U.S. commercial flights — now including spaceflight.

And space physicians still need to find ways to limit other hazards of human spaceflight that don't have anything to do with weightlessness, such as disturbed sleep and exposure to cosmic radiation.

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.

Weeden, who used to work for the Air Force, says NASA must forge ahead with manned spaceflight, but the Air Force does not need a human presence for its purposes, such as scouting and reconnaissance.

It merged space with time, matter with energy, made atomic bombs possible and lets you age slower during spaceflight.

The US government follows strict security regulations that largely prevent it from sharing spaceflight technologies and expertise with foreign nationals.

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.

HALF a century after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 1 satellite, sparking a race with the US that helped put astronauts on the moon, spaceflight is on the brink of another revolution.

Because loss of bone mineral density is known to occur on spaceflight missions, we need more data regarding health effects, including bone health, with long - term use of hormone treatments not just for contraception (as most women use them), but also for the less - common use to suppress menses.»

The authors suggest that combining pharmacological data from spaceflights with equivalent ground - based studies investigating menstrual suppression might provide the evidence required to trial LARCs during spaceflight.

Adults can register for a weekend filled with model rocket building, spaceflight history classes, and, upon special request, underwater astronaut training.

Another investigation that will be taking place is the NanoRacks - National Center for Earth and Space Science - Charlie Brown, in association with the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP).

In a discovery with implications for long - term spaceflight and future missions to Mars, a researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has found that mice flown aboard the space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth with early signs of liver disease.

Now scientists have developed a new tool that can look for signs of life with 10,000 times more sensitivity than instruments carried on previous spaceflight missions.

The three Penn study authors are also participating with Cognition in a NASA effort reported earlier this year to study the molecular, physiological and psychological effects of spaceflight on the human body by comparing identical twins, evidencing the need for a comprehensive cognitive test battery for spaceflight.

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.

Satellite communications, along with orbiting weather and GPS systems, are so widespread now that consumers largely take them for granted, whereas human spaceflight, limited to low Earth orbit, rarely gets a degree of attention even close to that on the night before Christmas 1968.

Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation — a coalition of private space companies — said in a statement that SPD - 1 «directs NASA to partner with the US commercial space industry to return Americans to the Moon.»

The lack of national consensus on NASA's most publicly visible human spaceflight goal along with budget uncertainty has undermined the agency's ability to guide program planning and allocate funding.»

She received her PhD from The Ohio State University in May 1997, subsequently serving in a number of different positions from a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics from 1997 - 2000, to a position at the National Academy of Sciences as a program officer with the Office on Public Understanding of Science from 2001 - 2003 to a Program Planning Specialist position at NASA Headquarters, culminating in a position at Goddard Spaceflight Center as the Education and Public Outreach Lead for the Astrophysics Science Division.