Sentences with phrase «with human space flight»

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After his flight with Zero Gravity, Hawking told reporters that «the long - term survival of the human race requires that we spread into space.»

«This possibility, combined with what we already know about how microgravity affects muscles and bones, paints a very bleak future for human space flight unless we start to develop effective countermeasures.»

But as commercial space flight heats up and costs go down, he thinks the future lies in swarms of low - cost robots (see «Termite robots build castles with no human help «-RRB-.

The president chose the new direction for the U.S. human space flight program Wednesday at a White House meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, according to officials familiar with the discussion.

Synthetic biologists are fitting the genomes of microorganisms with synthetic gene circuits to break down polluting plastics, non-invasively diagnose and treat infections in the human gut, and generate chemicals and nutrition on long - haul space flights.

Brooks, who represents Marshall Space Flight Center, contended that more money is needed to support human exploration because, since the end of the space shuttle program, America has had to «hitch a ride» with the Russians to the International Space Station (ISS) and thus lost its preeminSpace Flight Center, contended that more money is needed to support human exploration because, since the end of the space shuttle program, America has had to «hitch a ride» with the Russians to the International Space Station (ISS) and thus lost its preeminspace shuttle program, America has had to «hitch a ride» with the Russians to the International Space Station (ISS) and thus lost its preeminSpace Station (ISS) and thus lost its preeminence.

This week includes the 57th anniversary of the first human spaceflight — Yuri Gagarin's one - orbit ride aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and the 37th anniversary of the first U.S. space shuttle flight — STS - 1 on April 12, 1981, with John Young and Bob Crippen at the controls.

After a brief down period following the Apollo missions, NASA re-entered the realm of human space flight with the Shuttle Program.