The same tech could be put in boats or space shuttles.
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And then, I could see these two amazing space shuttles sitting below me.
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The pad was last used to launch NASA's space shuttles five years ago.
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Trilobites If you miss NASA's space shuttles, you might like the Dream Chaser.
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In the past, NASA built and operated its own vehicles, like the space shuttles.
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His designs for space shuttles or 1,000-passenger jumbo jets incorporated timeless forms from nature.
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Hurley piloted two of the space shuttles, including the final space shuttle mission in 2011.
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Private contractors for the cargo runs became necessary following the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011.
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Today, all of NASA's still existing space shuttles are housed in various museums around the United States.
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NASA in those years turned its attention to building space shuttles and then the International Space Station.
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NASA in those years turned its attention to building space shuttles and then the International Space Station.
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NASA desperately needs those commercial spaceships because it retired its fleet of space shuttles in July 2011.
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In the movie Moonraker James Bond has to fight a madman with his own fleet of Space Shuttles.
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Unlike other probes, Galileo would be launched from orbit, carried up by one of NASA's new space shuttles.
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The first American spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts since the retirement of the space shuttles launched early Saturday.
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Space shuttles at the time consisted of an orbiter, two solid rocket boosters and an external fuel tank.
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Boeing is now building its CST-100 Starliner in a Kennedy building once used for refurbishing space shuttles.
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Von Braun envisioned human spaceflight that included space stations, space shuttles and interplanetary arks carrying humans to Mars.
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Since the U.S. retired the space shuttles in 2011, Russian Soyuz capsules are the only crew transportation services available.
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That fragility became notorious when ceramic tiles were chosen as the re-entry heat shields for America's space shuttles.
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Here's a test drop of the plane which led to wingless flying vehicles that helped with Space Shuttles research.
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Since the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011, NASA astronauts have been riding on Russian rockets to orbit.
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Hurley piloted two space shuttles, including the very last one, spending a total of over 683 hours in space.
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The problem, according to Hadfield, is that those classic space shuttles would simply take too long to get to Mars.
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Pieces of the station were sent to space on 42 assembly flights, 37 US space shuttles and five Russian rockets.
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She was the first Canadian to board the International Space Station, in 1999, and flew on space shuttles Endeavour and Discovery.
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When the USSR collapsed, the program was mothballed and half-finished space shuttles were left rotting around the former Soviet empire.
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It is to land on the same runway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that the space shuttles once used.
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People often ask me how I felt about the risks when I climbed into space shuttles and a Soyuz spacecraft for launch.
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It was a common occurrence at Cape Canaveral whenever NASA's Space Shuttles landed, and it's continued with SpaceX's rocket landings over there.
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EDT (1215 GMT) and headed toward the berthing slip once used by NASA's now-retired space shuttles, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
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Hydrogen and oxygen, cracked into its component parts, put into cryogenic form, it's the same rocket fuel that powered the space shuttles.
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Even during the days of the space shuttles, landings were horizontal, more like an airplane than the modern vertical landings recently making headlines.
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Space shuttles need to be able to expand to larger than their size if human travel to Mars is to become a reality.
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EDT (1147 GMT) on a runway formerly used for landings of the now-mothballed space shuttles, the Air Force said in an email.
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Something like a flat Earth theory seems relatively inconsequential—these aren't the people NASA's going to hire to pilot space shuttles, after all.
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While SpaceX is the first private company to achieve this milestone, the U.S. government formerly launched astronauts and supplies aboard its space shuttles.
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Instead of developing and operating its own replacement for the space shuttles, NASA has instead turned to private companies to provide that service.
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The spaceplane looks a bit like the space shuttles, which were an incredibly exciting advancement for any kid of the 1980s and 90s.
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The planes, which look like miniature space shuttles, launch into orbit atop powerful rockets and then break away to carry out their mission.
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"To an extent, we are inventing this as we go along," said Christopher Ferguson, who twice commanded space shuttles as a NASA astronaut.
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Originally built for the 1960s-era Apollo moon program, the Florida pad was refurbished for the space shuttles, which flew from 1981 to 2011.
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Instead, saliva jettisons from Gruchy's tongue, like a thousand tiny space shuttles departing from Planet Mouth as it's annihilated by a long metal rod.
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KSC's Vertical Assembly Building — which once housed the Space Shuttles — and many of the launch pads can withstand gusts of 125 miles per hour.
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Originally built for the 1960s-era Apollo moon program, the Florida launchpad was refurbished for the space shuttles, which flew from 1981 to 2011.
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The most frequent form they take is that of a plane, shaped like a woman, but they could also be helicopters, space shuttles, blimps.
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There aren't any characters who are fully computer-generated — it's actually quite grounded in authenticity, even if you get to fly in space shuttles.
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The large Vehicle Assembly Building, once used to assemble the Space Shuttles prior to launch, is able to withstand winds of 53 miles per hour.
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Lethal explosions aboard the space shuttles Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003 produced national mourning but not renewed chin-up determination to conquer space.
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Since the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011, NASA has had to rely on Soyuz rockets built by Russia for taking astronauts into orbit.
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He favored development of a supersonic transport plane and criticized NASA for relying too heavily on space shuttles as launching vehicles instead of expendable rockets.
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But NASA's really taken it to extremes: It's transported space shuttles strapped to one, and cut a gigantic hole in the side of another, for stargazing.
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Pine shouts out his answer before the question is finished, and Quinto critiques him while knowing much more about space shuttles and the first female astronaut.
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Powered by four RS-21 engines, the same boosters used on the retired Space Shuttles, the core stage is the central launch component in the SLS.
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He flew into space twice during NASA's Gemini program in the mid-19303s, twice on the Apollo lunar missions and twice on space shuttles in the 160s.
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The explosions of the Space Shuttles Challenger , in 1986, and Columbia, in 2003, made clear that even formidable government agencies like nasa are susceptible to fatal mistakes.
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Instead of building its own vehicles, like the space shuttles that were retired in 2011, the space agency hired SpaceX and Boeing to develop commercial space systems.
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The Space Shuttles, for instance, were built by North American Rockwell, which is now Boeing, and the large external tanks were built by Martin Marietta, now Lockheed Martin.
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Looming in front of us is the giant Vehicle Assembly Building, or the VAB, the massive structure that once housed the Saturn V rocket and the Space Shuttles.
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The orbital vehicle is designed to make runway landings, much like the retired space shuttles, and has been undergoing testing at the Armstrong Flight Research Center since January.
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Measuring about 30 feet (nine meters) in length, the space plane looks like a miniature version of NASA's retired Space Shuttles, and follows the same basic spaceflight logic.
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The same reasoning led NASA to develop space shuttles in the 1970s, but the savings never materialized because of the extensive refurbishment of the orbiters needed between flights.
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The SLS boosters are made out of refurbished parts from NASA's Solid Rocket Boosters, the strap-on boosters that helped propel space shuttles into orbit for over 30 years.
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I'm 48 years old and Generation X. I've watched and witnessed MTV blossom, AIDS kill, the USSR crumble, space shuttles and probes skyrocket, and technology burgeon at unthinkable momentum.
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Since the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011, NASA astronauts have had to ride on Russia's Soyuz rockets, trips that now cost more than $80 million per seat.
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This is a change from the past when NASA built and operated its own vehicles, like the space shuttles and the Saturn 2250 rocket during the Apollo moon landings.
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From Alan Shepard's first flight in 1961 through the Apollo moon landings to the space shuttles, NASA was in charge of designing, building and operating its rockets and spacecraft.
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SpaceX said on Friday that it would shift flights to a second launch site in Florida, which is nearing completion and which was last used to launch NASA's space shuttles.
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NASA used modified Boeing 747s from 1974 for activities including the study of air turbulence from large aircraft to the more glamorous job of ferrying space shuttles like the Columbia.
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NASA's space shuttles were the first real attempt at a reusable spaceship, but the shuttles proved more delicate than hoped, requiring an army of technicians to refurbish them between flights.
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The company, owned and operated by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, is one of two hired by NASA to fly cargo to the station after the space shuttles were retired in 2011.
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Hydrogen and oxygen, cracked into its component parts, put into cryogenic form, it's the same rocket fuel that powered the space shuttles and its abundant on the surface of the moon.
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Between his first spaceflight in 1995, his second in 2001, and a third in 2013, Hadfield has flown inside NASA space shuttles, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and the International Space Station.
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The images released in recent days by SpaceX show larger fins on the B.F.R. than what had been seen previously, giving it an appearance more reminiscent of NASA's retired space shuttles.
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He also fretted over the cost of relying on Russia, which has provided transportation for NASA astronauts to the International Space Station since the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011.
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SpaceX in March took over a spacecraft processing facility at Port Canaveral that once was used to prepare Spacehab science and equipment modules for flight aboard NASA's now-retired space shuttles.
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The dog knows if someone's removed his socks in a room bigger than the gargantuan vehicle assembly building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, made to put the space shuttles together.
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All three of the space agency's major spacecraft disasters — the Apollo 1 fire and the losses of the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttles — occurred around this time at different points in history.
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In the decades that followed, the U.S. space programme chose to concentrate on reusable space shuttles, deep space probes and telescopes, and lower earth orbit activities such as the International Space Station.
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He devised the protocols for exploration beyond the Earth's atmosphere, orchestrated early orbital missions and spacewalks, and developed projects that put astronauts on the moon and into the first reusable space shuttles.
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During his 15-year career, he flew four missions into space, three times on space shuttles and once as the co-pilot of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station.
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Musk has called it the "most powerful rocket in the world by a factor of two," and its payload is estimated to be nearly three times that of the former space shuttles.
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The rest of the movie focused on Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and a couple Space Shuttles' full of roughnecks, who blast off to kick some asteroid ass with an all-American H-bomb.
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The NASA OIG is also concerned with how the space agency loans out pieces from the Space Shuttles Columbia and Challenger, the two vehicles that were lost during flights to and from space.
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Station commander Jeff Williams and flight engineer Kate Rubins floated outside the station's airlock and headed toward the berthing slip once used by NASA's now-retired space shuttles, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
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A group of YouTubers going by the name Exploring the Unbeaten Path traveled to the middle of nowhere to get a look at some space shuttles from the suspended Soviet-era Buran programme.
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However, one remaining problem spotlighted in the report concerned materials recovered from Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia, which malfunctioned in 1987 and 2003, respectively, resulting in the deaths of all crew members onboard.
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Since the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011, NASA has been relying on Russia to carry its astronauts to and from the International Space Station, but that contract ends in November 2019.
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All we've seen are basic rockets (useful for escaping Earth's gravity well), plane-like space shuttles (useful for re-entering it), Moon modules (the lunar lander), and modular orbital tubes (the International Space Station).
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Lockheed Martin doesn't want to let good space gear go to waste, either; its plan is to refurbish one of the cargo modules carried by the Space Shuttles into a livable multi-purpose environment.
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Private spaceflight company Orbital ATK may be moving into NASA's iconic Vehicle Assembly Building — the huge structure at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the Space Shuttles and Saturn V rockets were put together.
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The vehicles are 29 feet (9 meters) long and have a wingspan of 15 feet, making them about one quarter of the size of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's now-retired space shuttles.
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Orion is part of NASA's follow-up program to the now-retired space shuttles that will allow astronauts to travel beyond the International Space Station, which flies about 260 miles (420 km) above Earth.
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He served as a NASA astronaut from 1990-2005 and flew four missions into space aboard three Space Shuttles and once as the copilot of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station.
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The company built its launchpad just 1 1/2 miles from properties on the eastern edge of the community — twice as close as NASA permitted spectators to get to its space shuttles in Florida.
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Orbital's Next Generation Launcher is based on the solid-rocket strap-on boosters that flew on NASA's space shuttles, Orbital Business Development Director John Steinmeyer said at the 2016 Space Congress conference in Cape Canaveral.
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Previous designs, being decades old, were crafted for gravity-less floatation, and for working on the exteriors of space shuttles, but in a time of new discoveries, it's high time we got a new spacesuit.
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In an agreement brokered by Space Florida, a government agency dedicated to the economic development of aerospace activities in the state, Boeing leased the three orbiter processing facilities, where space shuttles underwent maintenance between flights.
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China's anti-satellite weapons concern Kwast, but what concerns him more are Chinese plans to build bases on the moon and Mars, develop nuclear powered space shuttles, and build space solar power stations by 2040.
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The launches include five trips to Sun-synchronous orbit and one to mid-inclined low Earth orbit, and after delivery, Momentus' small space shuttles will carry customers' payloads to customized drop-off altitudes and orbits.
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A reusable spacecraft is not a new concept — NASA's space shuttles each flew many times — but traditional capsules, like the ones used during NASA's Apollo moon missions and Russian Soyuz launches, are used only once.
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Instead of building and operating its own spaceships as NASA did for the space shuttles, which were retired in 2011, the agency has now turned to SpaceX and Boeing to provide the transportation of astronauts.
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Since NASA retired its fleet of space shuttles five years ago, the United States has depended on Russia to ferry astronauts to and from the station, at a cost of more than $70 million per person.
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This is the first time SpaceX is launching a rocket from Kennedy Space Center's historic Launch Complex 39A, which was originally built for the 1960s-era Apollo moon program and later repurposed for the space shuttles.
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In the 1980s, the West Coast was set to observe the sky-rattling rumble of the space shuttles, which were originally intended to take over the launching of military satellites in addition to their NASA missions.
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"Another amazing milestone is complete for our very soon-to-be project, which is launching American astronauts on American rockets from American soil for the first time since the retirement of the space shuttles," Bridenstine said.
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For instance, even though the US built five Space Shuttles, deciding later to build a new one would have meant starting from scratch because shutdown involved scrapping tools, shredding documentation, and letting go of highly skilled workers.
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In 1993, the United States invited Russia to join the space station effort, and after the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011, NASA has relied on Russia to take its astronauts to and from the station.
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Jonk and three friends had to hike all night through the desert to access the active spaceport, but they were rewarded with the opportunity to photograph two abandoned Soviet space shuttles currently rusting away in a hangar.
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The mission will make use of Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser space plane, a reusable spacecraft that looks like a scaled-down version of NASA's space shuttles, and can be used to transport both crew and cargo to orbit.
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"It's a museum piece," said Stephen Hunter, Manager of International Space Station (ISS) Computer Resources, referring to the Epson 800 Inkjet printer in use not only on the ISS, but on the now-retired space shuttles before it.
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Crew Dragon's successful test flight was a critical milestone for the US. Since NASA retired its fleet of space shuttles in 2011, the US has relied on Russian rockets and ships to taxi astronauts to and from the ISS.
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"Another amazing milestone is complete for our very soon-to-be project, which is launching American astronauts on American rockets from American soil for the first time since the retirement of the space shuttles," said Jim Bridenstine, the NASA administrator.
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In a shift from the space shuttles and NASA's earlier human spaceflight programs, the Obama administration decided that the agency should hire commercial companies to take astronauts to and from the space station instead of building and operating its own spacecraft.
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He served as a NASA astronaut from 1990-2005 and flew four missions into space aboard three Space Shuttles and once as the copilot of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, where he served as the commander during Expedition 503.
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If you're thinking this sounds a bit like the plot from the 1998 sci-fi flick "Armageddon" you would be right, but without Bruce Willis (there won't be any people on this spacecraft) and without space shuttles (NASA retired the shuttles in 2011).
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Whether sending unmanned probes to visit our neighbors in the Solar System, or providing the vehicles for astronauts to engage in lengthy sojourns in low earth orbit aboard Skylab modules and later the Space Shuttles, the United States reigned supreme in space.
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The two astronauts would fly aboard Crew Dragon, a capsule built by SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, and would be the first crewed mission to lift off from the United States since the space shuttles were retired in 2011.
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In the decades since the Apollo program, the wonder of America's early achievements in space has been overtaken by space shuttles, international space stations, unmanned explorations of the solar system's outer worlds and the possibility of a landing by humans on Mars.
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Currently, space shuttles that leave Earth travel at approximately 17,500 miles p— Yeah, look, we work for a website, half this industry barely squeaked by Algebra 2—we don't know if the math actually checks out, but sure as hell sounds legit.
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Life, sort of, imitating art If you're thinking the mission to Bennu sounds a bit like the plot from the 1998 sci-fi flick "Armageddon," you would be right, but without Bruce Willis (there aren't any people on this spacecraft) and without space shuttles.
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NASA has a time-honoured tradition of playing music from Mission Control as wake-up calls for flight crews onboard space shuttles — staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California even used music to try and wake the sleeping Opportunity rover on Mars.
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"Hydrogen and oxygen when cracked into its component parts is in fact the same rocket propulsion that powered the space shuttles and it's going to power the space launch systems — the largest rocket ever built in humanity that NASA is currently building," he told Hill.
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Even before Friday, the space agency was already talking to Russia about purchasing one or two additional seats on Soyuz rockets, the only means for getting to the space station for more than eight years since the retirement of NASA's space shuttles in 2011.
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When you look ... And you asked that question about whether this is in the past, I was visiting for manufacturing week last week … Aerojet Rocketdyne, which made every rocket that went onto the space shuttles with a 100 percent record, they're still making them.
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Musk has called it the "most powerful rocket in the world by a factor of two," and its payload is estimated to be nearly three times that of the former space shuttles, as well as the currently operating Delta IV Heavy and Ariane 5 ES rockets.
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Musk has called it the "most powerful rocket in the world by a factor of two," and its payload is estimated to be nearly three times that of the former Space Shuttles, as well as the currently operating Delta IV Heavy and Ariane 5 ES rockets.
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The company took over one of the hangars used by NASA's now-retired space shuttles for a commercial space taxi that will ferry astronauts and potentially paying passengers to and from the International Space Station, a $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth.
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According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) — the secretive intelligence organization responsible for the upkeep of the U.S.'s fleet of spy satellites — used NASA's space shuttles to launch multiple secret missions to orbit over the course of the decades-long program.
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We don't have the option to watch space shuttles carry humans to orbit from U.S. soil anymore, and while the Soyuz launches bringing astronauts and cosmonauts to orbit today have their own kind of magic, they pale in comparison to seeing a shuttle blast its way to orbit.
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In terms of what I brought over from shuttle, I think probably the most important thing ... is three key people who were highly engaged with with avionics modification in the shuttle called CAU, or cockpit avionics upgrade, which really brought the space shuttles' cockpit up to the 21st century.
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We must not repeat the mistake that was made by cancelling the space shuttles before commercial launch services were ready — where we lost a massive talent and knowledge base, as well as the security of being able to launch American astronauts on American rockets for what may approach a decade.
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Scott stepped up with a minimal, blip-heavy electronic soundtrack, and Henson followed suit with the visuals for "Paperwork Explosion," a five minute clip that combines apparent stock footage of paper, clocks, space shuttles; Mad Men-era office drones, staring directly in the camera and repeating robotic lines; and soundtrack-emphasized quick cuts.
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This mission's commercial payloads include two winning projects from the musical group OK Go's "Art in Space" contest, a Columbia University study of microgravity's impact on on cell biology – advised by professor Mike Massimino, a NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttles – and OSCAR, a recycling technology experiment from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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