Correction: an earlier version of this article misidentified Spaceflight Insider as Spaceflight Now.
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"The number one priority in human spaceflight is safety," Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, said.
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NASA's human spaceflight program stands at a significant crossroads NASA's human spaceflight program stands at a significant crossroads.
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Though China has been ramping up its spaceflight efforts over the last decade, the country has only launched six crewed spaceflight missions since 2003, and the longest human spaceflight mission lasted only a month.
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"Spaceflight is a strong proponent of being stewards of space and operating responsibly," a spokesperson for Spaceflight said in a statement.
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"Teamwork makes the dream work in spaceflight, and spaceflight is the biggest team sport there is," Kelly said as he relinquished command.
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While spaceflight has evolved a lot since the Space Race, it seems that spaceflight conspiracy theories are still stuck with 1960s tropes.
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Spaceflight Industries has two businesses: The all-in-one launch services unit, known as Spaceflight, and a satellite imagery unit called BlackSky.
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Brunt's tale hints not only at the luxury experience of spaceflight, but also at luxury markets that might be catalyzed by spaceflight.
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After all, deadlines in human spaceflight have been routinely missed over the last decade by both NASA and the commercial spaceflight industry.
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Ultimately, that will require some degree of integration of spaceflight into the national airspace system, while recognizing that spaceflight is different from aviation.
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As NASA aims to make spaceflight more inclusive and equitable, outdated ideas about women and their fitness for certain aspects of spaceflight still persist.
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While an unusual situation, Spaceflight did not know of the concerns the FCC raised with Swarm, which allowed Antrix and Spaceflight to move forward with the launch.
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It was the first commissioned flight from Spaceflight, which has raised more than $200 million in venture capital financing to build a private spaceflight scheduling and rideshare service.
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The goal of the Starhopper flight tests is to iron out the launch and landing processes of spaceflight, while the Starship itself is being built for actual spaceflight.
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To commemorate this historic voyage and celebrate the gains made in crewed spaceflight since, the United Nations enshrined April 22017 as the International Day of Human Spaceflight in 23.
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While Spaceflight acted as a broker between Swarm and the rocket provider -- Indian Space Research Organisation's commercial division, Antrix -- Spaceflight was not the intermediary between Swarm and the FCC.
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That's the central theme of a brand overhaul unveiled this week at the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a trade group for the dozens of startups in the nascent private spaceflight industry.
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Until that day in January spaceflight had a golden sheen.
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However, human spaceflight missions will still be launched from Jiuquan.
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Jeff Bezos is joining the big boys of commercial spaceflight.
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SpaceX aims to reduce the cost of spaceflight through reusability.
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You are operating in three dimensions, just like in spaceflight.
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The dogs underwent rigorous training to prepare them for spaceflight.
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India plans to send its first manned spaceflight by 2022.
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That's crucial for spaceflight, when every single pound is critical.
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These are just the standards for human spaceflight batteries, though.
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XCOR is a private spaceflight research facility in Midland, Texas.
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I personally like the clever design and the spaceflight pedigree.
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The costume is inspired by spaceflight and is entirely speculative.
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Blue Origin is also selling more than the spaceflight itself.
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This prompted them to take some time off from spaceflight.
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Success means the inauguration of a new era in spaceflight.
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The dawn of a new era in human spaceflight pic.twitter.
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The two billionaire entrepreneurs both own their own spaceflight companies.
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That's why the rise of private spaceflight companies is exciting.
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Gingrich has long supported causes that would advance American spaceflight.
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Tickets for a spaceflight are priced at about $250,000 apiece.
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But some of the effects of spaceflight left their mark.
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He wrote about the spaceflight company SpinLaunch in issue 27.11.
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SpaceX says it can drastically reduce the cost of spaceflight.
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Second, difficult tasks like spaceflight take smart people and computers.
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It was undeniably the most pyrotechnic decade in spaceflight history.
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She worked on trajectories for Shepard's Mercury flight, America's first manned spaceflight, and earned a measure of fame as "the girl" -- as female mathematicians were called -- who double-checked the output for Glenn's spaceflight.
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"In simplest terms, it will take a plan — a solid transition plan that doesn't happen overnight," Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a nonprofit aimed at promoting commercial spaceflight development, tells The Verge.
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Plus, joining the mission makes a real contribution to human spaceflight.
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Maybe that was the beginning of the end for public spaceflight.
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Behold, Sir NROL-37, the dark knight of American reconnaissance spaceflight.
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Such a disaster could stall spaceflight attempts for decades or more.
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Hydrogen could serve as an important fuel for future spaceflight missions.
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"Because weight, mass is an important consideration for spaceflight," Badger said.
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SpaceFlight Now reported the next launch will be somewhere between Dec.
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And there's a big future of spaceflight in front of us.
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The explosion grounded the company's spaceflight activities for almost five months.
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Musk may well be the most visible advocate of privatized spaceflight.
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For me, the dream of spaceflight started at an early age.
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Private companies are increasingly getting involved in spaceflight around the world.
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Tickets for a spaceflight are priced at about $250,000 a piece.
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As for NASA's human spaceflight program, things mostly stay the same.
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Kelly now holds the American long duration spaceflight records for NASA.
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When it comes to spaceflight, however, "unexpected issues" are practically inevitable.
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So she was more than up to the challenge of spaceflight.
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Its successful launch marks another entry into the private spaceflight industry.
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The most recent accident will reverberate throughout the commercial spaceflight industry.
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Those figures would mark a significant reduction from previous spaceflight costs.
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Blue Origin — the traditionally tight-lipped spaceflight company backed by Amazon.
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These efforts have already revolutionized the landscape of 21st century spaceflight.
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The history of human spaceflight is one of triumphs and tragedies.
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The launch is part of a "rideshare mission" organized by Spaceflight.
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Branson's bid to achieve human spaceflight hasn't been without setbacks, however.
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Chaffee, 31, was a rookie astronaut with no previous spaceflight experience.
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A rookie to spaceflight, Cassada was selected by NASA in 2013.
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But for real astronauts, spaceflight is not quite so, well, spacious.
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On the few occasions when spaceflight is depicted, it's visually impressive.
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The private spaceflight company has a backup opportunity on Thursday evening.
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Curt Blake, president of Spaceflight, said that both approaches can work.
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And now, apparently, so have Iran's ambitions for homegrown human spaceflight.
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New York (CNN Business)The commercial spaceflight industry is growing up.
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In his first spaceflight, Gemini 21966 in 232, he joined Col.
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Spaceflight creates a stressful environment for the astronauts, awakening dormant viruses.
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The astronaut blood samples were taken before, during and after spaceflight.
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What will passengers experience for a pricey 90-minute Virgin spaceflight?
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Any arbitrary prohibition limits the diversity of our national spaceflight portfolio.
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The Johnson Spaceflight Center would handle development of the ascent stage.
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The rise of Starliner, and a new era in human spaceflight.
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The health risks of spaceflight Though it's well known that astronauts face some of the greatest dangers during launch and re-entry, the health hazards they experience during spaceflight also pose immediate and long-term threats.
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Thanks to improper management, NASA has lost a wide array of historical spaceflight memorabilia over the last few decades — such as an old lunar soil bag, former spaceflight hand controllers, and even a test lunar rover.
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The county thinks the project could be a smart way for Georgia to enter the booming commercial spaceflight economy, which was valued at $329 billion in 2016, according to the Space Foundation, a nonprofit advocating for spaceflight.
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Spaceflight has always been a human aim, not just a personal one.
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Spaceflight is exciting, inspirational, unifying—and unfortunately tough on the human body.
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It's time for private spaceflight to start making good on its promises.
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Though, it was a violent, dramatic, and truly frightening, moment in spaceflight.
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It's thought that eventually this will greatly reduce the cost of spaceflight.
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In fact, Russia is now one of our strongest allies in spaceflight.
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He didn't talk about the dangers of spaceflight with his wife, Pat.
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Musk's company hopes this will make manned spaceflight a lot more affordable.
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According to SpaceX, this kind of reusability is the future of spaceflight.
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Of course, rebranding can be a daunting task, especially for spaceflight companies.
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Spaceflight causes our muscles to atrophy, especially in the legs and spine.
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This spaceflight marks Whitson's third long-duration stint on the Space Station.
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Private spaceflight company Blue Origin had a good end to last year.
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In February, private spaceflight company Virgin Galactic unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo spaceplane.
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Musk's goal was to make spaceflight cheaper by a factor of 10.
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And last year, China launched its longest crewed spaceflight mission to date.
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Turns out, it's remarkably difficult to guess the costs of human spaceflight.
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So in the stressful environment of spaceflight, you'd expect telomeres to shrink.
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There has always been a public fascination with Glenn's first historic spaceflight.
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"Spaceflight is hard," former astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria told Mashable via email.
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Modi has set a deadline of 2022 for India's first manned spaceflight.
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A handful of works stand out in the history of spaceflight literature.
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A few years ago, a company called Spaceflight had a wacky plan.
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Elon Musk's private spaceflight company has done some impressive things this year.
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America, Pence said, must regain its place as the leader in spaceflight.
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But it's only been as of late that we've gotten commercial spaceflight.
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Mikhail Kornienko (left) is greeted by officials after his 340 day spaceflight.
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It can be easy to forget the human element behind robotic spaceflight.
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It will be McClain's first time in space, and Koch's first spaceflight.
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It will be McClain's first time in space and Koch's first spaceflight.
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These plans include close collaboration with commercial spaceflight companies such as SpaceX.
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Without many trials, and many errors, we would never have achieved spaceflight.
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Indeed, commercial spaceflight will be an excellent idea in the long run.
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Nevertheless, the dawn of commercial human spaceflight is at last drawing nigh.
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This laser-based propulsion system would literally accelerate the pace of spaceflight.
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"The next overall architecture for spaceflight will be using hypersonics," Russell said.
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Perhaps the newspaper industry and human spaceflight are too easy for him.
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But the private spaceflight company made this high-velocity landing look easy.
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"Similar to our recent findings, there are spaceflight duration effects," she said.
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My spaceflight experiences have made me think about this quite a bit.
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Publicly funded spaceflight, however, seems extremely low on his list of priorities.
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They'll improve power system on the space station, Kimbrough told Spaceflight Now.
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NASA understands that long-duration spaceflight could pose serious challenges to astronauts.
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Lueders defended the program&aposs timeline, though, citing past spaceflight development projects.
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SpaceX, a private commercial company, contracts with NASA to produce spaceflight equipment.
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Other private spaceflight companies are vying to establish the space tourism market.
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SpaceX joins a growing list of companies developing commercial passenger spaceflight services.
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Most notably, human spaceflight on commercial vehicles has yet to fully mature.
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Over time, the goal is to make spaceflight — and eventually space colonization —
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The catch: By largely giving up control of human spaceflight in orbit, a region of key importance for Earth science and other discoveries, NASA risks that its human spaceflight program might be more heavily impacted by political whims.
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"It is highly likely that with the success of Chang'e -- and the concurrent success of the human spaceflight Shenzhou program -- the two programs will eventually be combined toward a Chinese human spaceflight program to the Moon," she added.
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"It is highly likely that with the success of Chang'e -- and the concurrent success of the human spaceflight Shenzhou program -- the two programs will eventually be combined toward a Chinese human spaceflight program to the moon," she added.
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But in all fairness, the private rocket company had some help; its sole customer for this mission, SpaceFlight Industries, purchased exclusive access to the Falcon 9—the first time SpaceFlight Industries has done such a thing, as CNN reports.
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This was a spaceflight first that could pave the way for dramatic cost reductions that will make new, long-duration human spaceflight missions more feasible, as well as allowing for more frequent routine launches of satellites and other spacecraft.
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Read our post and watch the video of the successful spaceflight feat here.
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Pence's comments suggested NASA would prioritize human spaceflight — with more public-private partnerships.
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The movie was made in 1979, a golden age for government-subsidized spaceflight.
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The stresses of spaceflight, even during short trips, are also daunting to consider.
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These titans of entrepreneurship are ushering in a new generation of human spaceflight.
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Kraus is 16 and among the youngest spaceflight photojournalists in the United States.
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DeFazio also made his animosity toward commercial human spaceflight known in later interviews.
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But CLPS is focused on robotic vehicles and science, rather than human spaceflight.
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The mission holds a number of firsts for both SpaceX and Spaceflight Industries.
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"Intentionally creating orbital debris fields is not compatible with human spaceflight," he said.
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But within the spaceflight community, it seems that Bridenstine has very strong support.
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However, most items related to human spaceflight are still on the Munitions List.
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When batteries are used in human spaceflight, NASA is especially concerned about safety.
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Companies are also making spaceflight safer by building extra fail-safes into spacecraft.
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Formed last year, the company boasts an impressive team with extensive spaceflight experience.
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"Low earth orbit is not unlike smartphones," says Curt Blake, president of Spaceflight.
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People like Tombaugh worried whether orbiting gunk would make spaceflight that much harder.
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This is Morgan's first spaceflight; he was selected as an astronaut in 2013.
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You'd probably pick Option C. Curt Blake, the president of Spaceflight Industries, agrees.
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It's altering the plans of private sector spaceflight companies, such as SpaceX, too.
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John Glenn holds that title, after his spaceflight at age 77 in 1998.
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" NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine hailed the launch as a "new era in spaceflight.
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The reuse of boosters is part of SpaceX's plan to make spaceflight cheaper.
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They also used Hasselblad lenses, a camera brand with a storied spaceflight history.
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Mr. Bigelow, a longtime hotel entrepreneur, sees inflatables as the future of spaceflight.
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MORE doubled down on the commercialization of human spaceflight, Congress reacted with anger.
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Sixty-four small satellites from 34 different organizations will be aboard, Spaceflight said.
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All three are, to some degree, involved in space policy and spaceflight advocacy.
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Here are the 11 most exciting innovations shaping the future of spaceflight today.
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It also tested the first spaceflight stellar navigation system and advanced pressure suits.
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In 2000 he founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services firm.
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Leonov, at 82, is still an active spaceflight advocate and science fiction artist.
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Since then, a variety of options for private spaceflight have started to emerge.
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Chang'e-2628 will be the most complex spaceflight that China has ever attempted.
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To change that,NASA has been a strong supporter of commercial manned spaceflight.
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This accomplishment may set the stage for opening a new era in spaceflight.
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"We are so excited to witness your contributions to human spaceflight," she said.
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The vice president will tour the mission control center for NASA's spaceflight operations.
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Minutes before his first spaceflight, Massimino had an epiphany: This was really stupid.
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The test was an important milestone in the development of commercial human spaceflight.
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Commercial companies have been involved in spaceflight since the dawn of space travel.
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The growing private spaceflight industry isn't waiting for government oversight to catch up.
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"We see suborbital [human] spaceflight happening in the next two years," Svetkoff said.
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With the new spaceflight capabilities through Boeing and SpaceX (initially), NASA says it will maintain a crew of seven astronauts on the space station for continued scientific research and experimentation on understanding and mitigating the challenges of long-duration spaceflight.
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"The FAA uses decades-old analysis and air traffic control tools to segregate the airspace around a launch or reentry," Eric Stallmer, the president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which represents dozens of commercial spaceflight companies, said at the hearing.
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Image: Bigelow Aerospace/YouTube "We're also looking to broaden the number of countries that can participate in human spaceflight to include those that aren't part of the ISS, or that don't necessarily have a history of human spaceflight," he added.
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SpaceX has an uncanny way of making the most amazing spaceflight events seem routine.
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That's a pretty impressive launch frequency for SpaceX, or really any commercial spaceflight company.
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In other words, some degree of magical thinking is hardly rare in spaceflight history.
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In spaceflight, everything down to the smallest items are taken into consideration before flight.
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It'll be interesting to see how the spaceflight company broadcasts the triple-landing attempt.
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Initially, it didn't seem that spaceflight changed the volume of white matter at all.
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The rocket was a Falcon 9, built by SpaceX, Elon Musk's commercial spaceflight company.
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But spaceflight sleuths have gleaned a few clues from the circumstances of the launch.
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Bezos isn't the only person who thinks reusable rockets are the future of spaceflight.
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This week's tests ultimately bring commercial spaceflight of humans closer to being a reality.
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They're hoping to find ways to make long spaceflight gentler on the human body.
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"This a really good milestone for spaceflight another step towards the stars," he said.
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I'm not kidding: Mars is a two-year spaceflight away, on a SpaceX rocket.
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China celebrated the country's first rocket launch by a private spaceflight company this week.
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Reusing rocket stages could bring the cost of spaceflight down by orders of magnitude.
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In the meantime, the Virgin companies are still moving forward with their spaceflight plans.
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These details may also hint at some of the private spaceflight company's upcoming plans.
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"Human spaceflight is the core mission of our company," SpaceX said in a statement.
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US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab is rescheduling its first commercial rocket launch once again.
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But despite that hiccup, Spaceflight has forged ahead and is picking up more customers.
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Two months after the inaugural spaceflight, Virgin Galactic's spacecraft Unity has done it again.
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Some saw it as a publicity stunt, confirming their worst fears about private spaceflight.
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The news met with the kind of media frenzy usually reserved for human spaceflight.
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The private spaceflight company will attempt the launch again on Monday at 93 a.m.
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Tonight's launch was the commercial spaceflight company's ninth mission to the International Space Station.
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Why it matters: A successful launch will help open the doors to commercial spaceflight.
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The spaceflight animations are probably in place to mask load screens, but they're excessive.
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Within about two years, SpaceX expects to add human spaceflight to its launch services.
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But spaceflight is inherently risky, and he did not attempt to hide that fact.
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Perhaps we'll be seeing more clips like this when private spaceflight companies encounter success.
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"The tragedy of spaceflight is that you can't get pizza in space," Massimino says.
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On Reptilon, dinosaurs survived and developed into an intelligent species capable of interplanetary spaceflight.
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Just because Kelly is retiring from NASA doesn't mean he's done with spaceflight though.
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Spaceflight confirmed about seven hours after launch that all 64 satellites were deployed successfully.
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Spaceflight isn't slowing down, either, with contracts to launch about 100 satellites this year.
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Together, the swarm will help Indian infrastructure planners and mapmakers, as Spaceflight Now notes.
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Spaceflight is extraordinarily tricky, and other ambitious timelines have had to be pushed back.
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They monitor their health on physical and psychological levels, especially during long-term spaceflight.
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They soared to 21972 miles above the earth, setting a record for manned spaceflight.
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He's spent his personal fortune on BlueOrigin, which will begin commercial spaceflight next year.
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Why the FAA says one life is worth $3 million in a spaceflight accident
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Jonas acknowledged that it is difficult to quantify the dollar impact of human spaceflight.
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The spaceflight company soaring (pun intended) this year and getting popular with retail investors.
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The Intrepid Museum The Intrepid focuses on both actual spaceflight and flights of fancy.
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Anderson, much like Morgan Stanley, sees human spaceflight as a catalyst for more investment.
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Virgin Galactic is preparing to become the first human spaceflight company to go public.
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Such a mission would end the decadelong US reliance on Russia for human spaceflight.
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It's the first time in space for McClain and the first spaceflight for Koch.
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What we need is a real commitment to maintain US leadership in human spaceflight.
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Do you have a story or inside information to share about the spaceflight industry?
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It might also help usher in an era of spaceflight that's radically less expensive.
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Astronauts like Chris Hadfield say it's an essential part of their preparation for spaceflight.
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But if private industry takes over human spaceflight destinations in low-Earth orbit and funding and political support for NASA missions to the Moon or Mars dissipates, there may be no point in having a government-sponsored human spaceflight program at all.
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Perhaps much of the reason people worry about the state of the commercial spaceflight industry when SpaceX fails has to do with the fact that the company, led by Musk, has deftly inserted itself into just about every part of commercial spaceflight.
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MRIs and stress tests on six NASA astronauts showed that paraspinal muscles shrunk by about 19 percent in size after spaceflight, and the cross-sectional area of the muscles — key for muscle strength — shrank from 86 percent to 72 percent after spaceflight.
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This facility has a lot of spaceflight infrastructure and could potentially support operations for weeks.
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To date, Spaceflight has launched over 140 satellites for companies and universities around the world.
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Figuring out how it will affect the near future of spaceflight will come even later.
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Both the rocket, a Falcon 9, and the spacecraft, a Dragon, have seen spaceflight before.
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Her first spaceflight on ISS Expedition 5, launched in June 2002, lasted nearly 185 days.
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SpaceX has established a plan in partnership with NASA to qualify engines for [crewed] spaceflight.
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It was a tragedy that forever changed how NASA handled safety protocols surrounding human spaceflight.
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Now I report on spaceflight full time, but I've only ever watched from the sidelines.
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In fact, it's almost impossible to keep track of 56-year-old Whitson's spaceflight records.
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The Commercial Crew program is meant to bring US human spaceflight back to American soil.
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It was weird timing, but most great spaceflight achievements often serve as moments of reflection.
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Before Uber, he spent a decade working at Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spaceflight company.
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Maintain the exploration of Mars as the organizing principle for NASA's human spaceflight program. 2.
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This time, it's private spaceflight company Orbital ATK that's in charge of the resupply run.
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US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab is nearly ready to launch its experimental Electron rocket again.
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While crucial for spaceflight, these COPVs have also been a source of anxiety for SpaceX.
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Billions of people have died on Earth but only 18 people have died during spaceflight.
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It was assumed that the stress of spaceflight would accelerate this shortening in astronauts' DNA.
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And if that same network can fill the role of a seriously badass spaceflight photographer?
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Whitson holds the US record for most cumulative spaceflight hours, with 665 days in space.
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That really streamlines the decisions being made within NASA about the directions for human spaceflight.
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In spaceflight, as in life, it takes preparation for you to really make the grade.
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"We're really a facilitator to get people on orbit," says Curt Blake, CEO of Spaceflight.
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SpaceX's ambitious plans have ignited a spirit of entrepreneurial rivalry with other private spaceflight companies.
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Bostick was attempting to join the manned spaceflight group when he ran into Chris Kraft.
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Instead, it performs these kinds of landings in order to reduce the cost of spaceflight.
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"This is a very special day in the glorious history of American spaceflight," Trump said.
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They draw analogies to federal support for fracking, drug research, even the private spaceflight industry.
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This live webcast could also mark a serious change for the usually secretive spaceflight company.
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"They've struggled with the technology," says Charles Miller, president of NexGenSpace, a spaceflight consulting firm.
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None of this would work without Starlink's most basic elements — spaceflight and combat — being great.
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Private spaceflight company Virgin Galactic announced its partnership with fashion brand Y-3 on Thursday.
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Human spaceflight for business and research is not in the immediate business plan, Beames said.
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And both companies want to adapt their spaceflight technology to shuttle people around the Earth.
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Some of the simplest medical questions become big problems with the added complexity of spaceflight.
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Currently, ULA and SpaceX are the only two spaceflight companies authorized to launch military satellites.
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And then fundamentally spaceflight will be open to almost anyone, just as air flight is.
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"SpaceFlight Now wrote that the accident happened while SpaceX was running an "abort engine test.
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Amazon's head Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post, and human spaceflight company Blue Origin.
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The latter draws analogies to federal support for fracking, drug research, and even private spaceflight.
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A team of scientists tracked his body's responses to long-term spaceflight in painstaking detail.
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The research highlights the need for safety measures to protect astronauts undergoing long-term spaceflight.
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And there are other studies that suggest that long-term spaceflight actually "squeezes" the brain.
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Candidates will have to pass the NASA long-duration spaceflight physical and an online assessment.
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Unlike previous astronauts who returned from long-duration spaceflight missions, Koch didn't experience motion sickness.
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Salvation will be granted to those who can afford a seat on the private spaceflight.
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Virgin Galactic is also preparing to become the first human spaceflight company to go public.
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So, unlike previous human spaceflight programs, NASA will essentially be a customer for the companies.
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While it is also used in civilian programs like spaceflight, its military applications are considerable.
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His stake in Blue Origin, the spaceflight firm, is worth another $3 billion, Bloomberg said.
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The commercial spaceflight company launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a crewed Dragon on top.
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And too much junk around Earth could mean all spaceflight comes to a grinding halt.
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NASA turned to the private sector to develop the next generation of human spaceflight hardware.
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In July, ISRO successfully tested a crew escape system, a critical technology for human spaceflight.
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The burgeoning private spaceflight industry could also be hampered by delayed air traffic control modernization.
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Telomeres act like a biomarker for health and, now, the long-term risks of spaceflight.
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So spacecraft, spaceflight, spaceship, spacesuit and spacewalk, but space age, space shuttle and space station.
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The game is known for its extremely realistic simulation of spaceflight and orbital mechanics The game is known for its extremely realistic simulation of spaceflight and orbital mechanics, with enterprising players being known to accidentally learn some advanced physics to succeed in the game.
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Her trip was the longest-ever single spaceflight mission for a woman, and she did it for science: NASA needs to study the long-term effects of spaceflight on the human body in preparation for eventual stays on the Moon and missions to Mars.
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In the history of spaceflight, no casualties due to falling space debris have ever been confirmed.
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While no simulation is perfect, the scientists set goals to better understand aspects of real spaceflight.
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The world of spaceflight has increasingly shifted from the domain of governments to the private sector.
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That's why Spaceflight bought its own Electron rocket, which costs around $5 million, on May 17.
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Spaceflight books launches for satellite makers and sets them up with rideshares if they so desire.
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It's not often that a spaceflight mission logo could double as a Game of Thrones character.
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She was actually scheduled for a third spaceflight, but the 1986 Challenger accident ended those plans.
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Together, the gaggle of elite space entrepreneurs' companies are building the next generation of human spaceflight.
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Called the "SmallSat Express," Monday's mission was bought and coordinated by launch services liaison Spaceflight Industries.
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Judging by Cruz's recent tweets, it's definitely possible he'll bring up American spaceflight on this anniversary.
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According to a report from the Washington Post, Blue Origin — the spaceflight company founded by Amazon.
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The SLS can be a resource that benefits commercial spaceflight and makes our future even brighter.
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The mission, slated for 2019, marks the first national security agreement for the private spaceflight company.
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Fincke comes with plenty of spaceflight experience, as this will be his fourth trip to space.
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Reusing these rockets could cut the cost of spaceflight by as much as 30%, SpaceX says.
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Nailing this aspect is key to its long-term strategy for reusable rockets and affordable spaceflight.
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Now she has her eye on a different record: the longest single spaceflight by a woman.
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It doesn't get much more futuristic than this marriage of commercial spaceflight and expandable space habitats.
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The company focuses on numerous fields of technology, but it also has a rich spaceflight legacy.
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But today's failure could have even more significant repercussions for NASA's human spaceflight program moving forward.
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NASA still plans to collaborate with other space programs on human spaceflight when the station ends.
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The impact: The historical narratives around spaceflight can bias how we think about access to space.
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Even after Challenger exploded and Columbia failed, the public still pushed for American spaceflight to continue.
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Virgin Galactic is set to become the first publicly-traded human spaceflight company when it lists.
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Now, she has her eye on a different record: the longest single spaceflight by a woman.
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For instance, it was recently revealed that the shape of astronauts' brains change due to spaceflight.
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So far, Spaceflight has found rides for more than 29 different satellites on multiple launch vehicles.
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Inside, astronauts train for all kinds of spaceflight situations from a normal flight to the unthinkable.
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Moses gave even more detail about her experience, explaining her role in the company's second spaceflight.
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Their 33-day stint in space is the longest crewed spaceflight in China's history, so far.
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Navigating this marketplace and guiding clients to space is where companies like Spaceflight Industries come in.
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Fans of human spaceflight are certainly correct when they remind us that humans are highly versatile.
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Electron is scheduled to carry payloads for customers including NASA, Spire, Planet, Moon Express and Spaceflight.
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The rest of the commercial spaceflight industry also feels the ripple effects of one rocket explosion.
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Read More: Secrets of the First Manned Spaceflight Baikonur is no stranger to launch-related fatalities.
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Musk's goal is to cut the cost of spaceflight so that humanity can migrate beyond Earth.
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And now it wants to transform the country into the place to be for private spaceflight.
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The Commercial Spaceflight Federation's old logo (left) is being replaced by a more modern one (right).
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Spaceflight, started in 2011, has under its belt plenty of launches from a variety of providers.
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The Russian spaceflight community, meanwhile, has been trying to land working payloads on Mars since 1962.
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Elon Musk's spaceflight company SpaceX just aborted its launch in perhaps the most dramatic way possible.
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Last month, private spaceflight company Blue Origin intentionally crash-landed part of its New Shepard rocket.
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To date, Trump hasn't had the best record when it comes to spaceflight and space policy.
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For all of the excitement surrounding manned spaceflight, that sort of exploration is expensive and risky.
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Kickstarted in 21966, the Luna program racked up many key spaceflight milestones within that first year.
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At the start of this program, NASA subsidized five promising companies for their human spaceflight concepts.
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Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, said NASA needed to step up its goals.
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Of all human spaceflight, Apollo 8 may have best demonstrated NASA's capacity to change human perspective.
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The spaceflight, Axiom officials said, could take off as soon as the second half of 22015.
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But will this longstanding dream of luxury spaceflight ever come to fruition in the real world?
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What is known is that the military is using the planes to develop reusable spaceflight technology.
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SpaceX says its reusable rocket technology has allowed it to drastically reduce the cost of spaceflight.
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Candidates will also have to pass the NASA long-duration spaceflight physical and an online assessment.
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"The magnitude, frequency and duration of viral shedding all increase with length of spaceflight," Mehta said.
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Does seeing the high-tech space wear make you more excited about the future of spaceflight?
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Koch's is the second-longest single spaceflight by any US astronaut, NASA said in a release.
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That's considered a crucial step in reducing the cost of spaceflight and sending humans to Mars.
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During long-term spaceflight missions on the space station, astronauts have experienced muscle and bone loss.
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When it does happen, the mission will usher in a new era of commercial human spaceflight.
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Musk founded the company in 2002 with a goal of lowering the cost of spaceflight technology.
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If enacted, it could well spell the end of NASA's human spaceflight for the foreseeable future.
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Greg Autry, Ph.D., is director of the Commercial Spaceflight Initiative at the University of Southern California.
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Early 2020: SpaceX launches its first people into orbit — and resurrects the US' human spaceflight capabilities
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The program is a competition between private companies for billions of dollars in government spaceflight contracts.
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It's the first time that a spaceflight-ready version of the capsule has exited the hangar.
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So, instead, Musk's company is trying to make spaceflight cheaper by recovering the rocket for reuse.
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The United States had only had one human spaceflight, the suborbital flight of Alan Shepard, only 15 minutes of practical human spaceflight experience, and Kennedy is saying they're gonna go a quarter of a million miles to the Moon and back, and land and walk around.
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Both Misurkin and Acaba are spaceflight veterans, while this will be the first flight for Vende Hei.
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Smaller rockets are cheaper to build and could ultimately reduce barriers to entry for small spaceflight companies.
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The spaceflight forced the astronauts to make critical repairs to the craft&aposs carbon-dioxide removal system.
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It's no secret that Musk wants to use his private spaceflight company to take us to Mars.
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Launch middleman Spaceflight was in talks with SpaceX to fly its Sherpa rideshare spacecraft on the mission.
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This reusable New Shepard spaceflight system test marked one of the company's most complicated tests to date.
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About 13 minutes into the mission, Spaceflight will begin deploying the satellites using multiple dispensers and techniques.
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Since the inaugural 1996 competition, challenge themes have included adult literacy, AI, women's safety, and suborbital spaceflight.
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It was retracted on July 17th, 1969, one day after the launch of the Apollo 11 spaceflight.
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In NASA's plan for human spaceflight, one of the many issues that came up included security clearance.
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Spaceflight Networks also offers a "data plan" type of access to their antennas and those of partners.
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But he has always insisted that cheap spaceflight will only be truly possible once rockets become reusable.
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This afternoon, Jeff Bezos' spaceflight venture Blue Origin is set to make a big announcement about... something.
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That launch is tentatively planned for February 22nd, according to an SES representative speaking to Spaceflight Now.
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Humanity's coolest achievements in spaceflight since Apollo 8, from walking on the moon to touching interstellar space
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The next big leap in a new chapter of U.S. human spaceflight systems has left the pad.
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Mr Musk instead makes an existential argument—spaceflight, he says, should be seen as an insurance policy.
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All that uncertainty has led Spaceflight to pull back a bit on its own plans to tug.
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It's become a common challenge to re-create the feat inside adorable spaceflight sim Kerbal Space Program.
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Alabama politicians also raise a fuss whenever they see a threat to any of Alabama's spaceflight business.
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That's the logic that has guided crewed spaceflight since Gagarin, and Space Adventures flights haven't changed it.
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From terrestrial observation to human spaceflight, China has since been wildly successful at developing full-spectrum capability.
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But even as the meaning of the word changes, Glenn's astronaut legacy lives in the spaceflight community.
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In May, Georgia governor Nathan Deal signed a bill called HB 1, or the Georgia Spaceflight Act.
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It's an important milestone in the Dream Chaser's development, as Sierra Nevada readies the plane for spaceflight.
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So once this spaceplane is ready for spaceflight, it could have a lot of work to do.
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Rather, Chinese and U.S. interests — particularly when it comes to human spaceflight — run parallel to one another.
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This leads to one of the most serious side effects to long-term spaceflight: significant bone loss.
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Another big area that the commercial industry wants to be reformed is how spaceflight hardware is exported.
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Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin is inching ever closer to launching tourists into sub-orbital space.
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However, "manned spaceflight" and "colony" are still used by many news organizations and on social media today.
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All three are spaceflight veterans and will be staying on board the ISS for about five months.
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Due to legal restrictions, winners would be required to pay 15 percent of the $100,000 spaceflight cost.
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If selected, the mom of two plans to create a program to get kids excited about spaceflight.
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Together, the two will complete an important step in China's effort to study long-duration human spaceflight.
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Private spaceflight startup Astrobotic has secured a rocket to launch its lunar spacecraft for the first time.
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Their mission is to commercialize spaceflight and they've already flown their super-cute XCOR Lynx rocket plane.
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Since the stress of spaceflight suppresses astronauts' immune systems, any additional risk of illness is extremely serious.
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Thanks to SpaceX and other private spaceflight companies, rocket launches have fallen in price in recent years.
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By definition, this includes manned spaceflight, but the question is really how we should achieve that objective.
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And the private spaceflight industry will continue to play a significant role in space policy moving forward.
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"Prolonged exposure to spaceflight conditions -- low gravity, increased radiation -- has a number of detrimental effects," Boothby said.
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Last month, Virgin Galactic sent chief astronaut trainer Beth Moses as the company's first spaceflight test passenger.
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But he's hopeful for the future of commercial spaceflight and sees opportunities for himself in that field.
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But he said it's possible he may join up with a commercial spaceflight company in the future.
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The next big leap in a new chapter of U.S. human spaceflight systems has left the pad.
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Testing out this system is a valuable step toward making the New Shepard ready for human spaceflight.
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NASA spent $9 billion over five years designing, building, and testing hardware for that human-spaceflight program.
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However, having strong spaceflight supporters speak at the convention could lend him some legitimacy in those circles.
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In this, as is often the case with obscure spaceflight records, the Soviet Union led the way.
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In its race to land people on the moon, the US spent billions on Apollo spaceflight hardware.
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Companies like SpaceX, Boeing, and Virgin Galactic are shaping the future of spaceflight with exciting new innovations.
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JSC is the center of NASA's human spaceflight expertise, hence it is being given the ascent module.
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He will become the first candidate since 85033 to resign before qualifying for spaceflight, the newspaper reported.
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It's one of the more recent effects of spaceflight noticed over the past five to seven years.
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"I'm just grateful to help usher in this new era of American spaceflight," Ferguson told the crowd.
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most excruciating tragedies in the history of spaceflight.
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Both space- and Earth-based experiments have roundly concluded that spaceflight is not the most healthy thing.
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A great deal of progress had been made since the first manned spaceflight programs, Gemini and Mercury.
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For most of spaceflight history, satellites have communicated using radio signals, which can pass through cloud cover.
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Let's say this bill passes, what would that mean for NASA and the future of human spaceflight?
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At the time, Madsen and his cofounder, Kristian Von Bengtson, were planning the first amateur human spaceflight.
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Startups like SpaceX and Blue Origin stepped up, and today commercial spaceflight is a $1.1 billion industry.
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Understanding how their gene expression is altered can help NASA better prepare for long-term human spaceflight.
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Finally, tell us more about what you think: The article mentions many of Mr. Musk's spaceflight failures.
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The facade of the Ufa Palast theater was redesigned as a monumental bas-relief to dramatize spaceflight.
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Now on her third long-duration spaceflight, Whitson is the oldest woman to ever fly in space.
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We could, for instance, develop interstellar spaceflight in order to disperse ourselves more widely across the stars.
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This put Beck on the flip side of an issue that has long divided the spaceflight community.
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She was tasked with performing trajectory analysis for Alan Shepherd's 1961 mission, the first American human spaceflight.
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In July, Jim Bridenstine, NASA's administrator, reassigned William Gerstenmaier, an official who for years oversaw human spaceflight.
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The novel's title and some of its most moving passages come from his grandfather's fascination with spaceflight.
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Yet he supports continued human spaceflight, dismissing the argument that unmanned probes can make progress more quickly.
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In January, researchers looked at the impact of long-term spaceflight on immune system cells of astronauts.
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She's gearing up to break the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman on Dec.
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Numerous organizations have come out against the bill, including The Planetary Society and the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.
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The findings can also be applied to future long-term spaceflight missions to the moon and Mars.
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Third, the relatively recent involvement of private space companies in spaceflight doesn't change the underlying funding picture.
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On Thursday, the commercial spaceflight company tweeted that the company had successfully launched a spaceship flight test.
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For years, companies with the most spaceflight experience pursued these juicy government gigs, forsaking the private market.
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These events marked the fastest turnaround for SpaceX launches from two different sites, according to Spaceflight Now.
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Rodents, in particular mice and rats, have a long history in spaceflight dating back to the 1950s.
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"Human spaceflight is the core mission of our company," the company said in a statement to SpaceX.
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Correction: This article originally stated that Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko broke the record for longest single spaceflight.
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In contrast, the volume of cerebrospinal fluid circulating in the brain increased over the course of the spaceflight.
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This includes 20 mice, which will be used to study the impacts of long duration spaceflight on biology.
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You'll also find out how an American spaceflight company plans to give tourists a few minutes of weightlessness.
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Private spaceflight company Blue Origin has successfully launched and landed its New Shepard rocket for the third time.
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It marked the 21th time the company has successfully recovered one of its rockets, according to Spaceflight Now.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSLots of Jupiter fans are users of the Planetary Society's Unmanned Spaceflight forum.
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As Spaceflight Now reports, NASA approved the mission a few days ago, but the decision wasn't made lightly.
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Such implicit support of Donald Trump, the party's nominee for president, has many spaceflight fans and experts upset.
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Last May, the Trump administration signaled its intention to ease commercial spaceflight regulations with Space Policy Directive 2.
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And if there are changes, it will be hard to attribute them to any one aspect of spaceflight.
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Both companies have a track record of satellite launches but are untested when it comes to human spaceflight.
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"The truth is that human spaceflight is still extremely expensive and so is operating the ISS," Weeden said.
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Poynter noted her company is entering a market where there's been a lot of excitement lately — commercial spaceflight.
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This fast turn-around time is part of the proof-of-concept of affordable spaceflight through reusable rockets.
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The bill helps to limit the liability of spaceflight companies that launch people into space from the state.
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The Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which represents many new space companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, heartily endorses Bridenstine.
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Launch preparations are underway for New Shepard's 29th test flight, as we continue our progress toward human spaceflight.
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But the stresses of spaceflight may cause them to shorten more quickly, speeding up an astronaut's biological clock.
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Alongside Amazon, Bezos is also the founder of spaceflight company Blue Origin, which is a competitor to SpaceX.
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The space agency is constantly facing political whiplash when new administrations take over and impose new spaceflight goals.
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NASA astronaut Christina Koch is also aiming to hold the record for longest single spaceflight by a woman.
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These measurements help us understand how the body responds to spaceflight factors at the level of the gene.
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So NASA is still many years ahead of China in terms of spaceflight capabilities – both human and robotic.
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It explores how the space suits were made and provides a unique look into the history of spaceflight.
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Most of the astronauts have previous spaceflight experience from riding on the Space Shuttle or Russian Soyuz rocket.
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Now, a total of 20193 satellites are scheduled to fly, according to new details released by Spaceflight today.
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The timelapse starts all the way back on November 12, as ESA begins the laborious process of spaceflight.
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No damage was revealed in the initial inspection beyond a bit of wear-and-tear from orbital spaceflight.
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As far the technical details go, how do you dip into those, as a non-specialist in spaceflight?
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It was in high school when I realized that manned spaceflight hadn't kept pace with my childhood expectations.
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Almost any space nerd will tell you that the future of the space industry hinges upon private spaceflight.
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It's not fine when the public is bankrolling his efforts, as it is with SpaceX's crewed spaceflight program.Ouch.
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The former was there to award the X Prize Cup's cash prizes to that year's civilian spaceflight stars.
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Elon Musk's dream for human spaceflight took a stellar leap forward in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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But he also felt confident that a longer spaceflight would be completely reasonable for any properly trained astronaut.
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The latter two developments are particularly relevant to SpaceX's future ambitions for one simple reason: spaceflight is expensive.
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You'll marvel in weightless freedom and lose yourself in breathtaking views through the largest windows in spaceflight history.
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Transparency isn't a principle that private spaceflight companies should adhere to only when it's convenient for them, though.
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Kelly's participation in the mission also gave doctors an opportunity to look at possible genetic changes from spaceflight.
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The restoration of American human spaceflight will be an important event in the history of the space program.
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Cheaper spaceflight is no small thing, freeing money for other projects such as the return to the moon.
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A tried-and-true hurdle for any spaceflight program, especially missions that involve people, is the steep cost.
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That could make Blue Origin a major spaceflight player, on par with SpaceX and the United Launch Alliance.
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We're currently in the middle of the longest gap in US human spaceflight since the advent of NASA.
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She did trajectory analysis for the first human spaceflight and ran calculations personally for John Glenn's orbital mission.
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The U.S. ceased human spaceflight from its own soil in 2011 when the space shuttle was officially retired.
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The Ansari X Prize for suborbital spaceflight attracted over $100 million in investment for a $10 million prize.
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A few well-known high-risk changes were confirmed by the study, including spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome.
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Fully 5003 percent of Scott's genes whose expression changed during spaceflight returned to normal ranges within six months.
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According to Spaceflight Now, some nearby workers said they heard an explosion, though no injuries have been reported.
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Contemporary spaceflight is impractical by virtue of being unsustainable; it's a pursuit for governmental agencies and rich visionaries.
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The company's spaceship rollout today marks the start of Virgin Galactic's second act as a private spaceflight outfit.
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Many scientists now consider vision loss and other related changes to be the number one risk of spaceflight.
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"The human experience with spaceflight has shown that space exploration comes with various health risks," the authors note.
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That stance was at odds with NASA's long history of transparency surrounding accidents involving its human spaceflight program.
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Why is the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy an important milestone in spaceflight, according to the article?
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About half of them were bought up by SpaceX — another Musk-owned firm that's engaged in private spaceflight.
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It's possible that the physical demands of spaceflight were to blame, or that unconsciously his motivation had decreased.
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But, he added, his company saw human spaceflight more as a high-profile catalyst than a big business.
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Applicants need to have experience executing spaceflight programs and have a bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific field.
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So, unlike previous human spaceflight programs, NASA will essentially be a customer for the companies during their missions.
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How is Musk leading his company to disrupt the legacy industry of spaceflight and innovate global internet connectivity?
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In this lesson, you will learn about Ms. Koch's record-setting mission and its impact on future spaceflight.
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The Space Adventures spokesperson said the price tag would be "in the range as other orbital spaceflight opportunities."
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The first crewed flight for the Commercial Crew program will return human spaceflight to American soil once again.
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Musk founded the company in 2002 with the goal of making spaceflight cheaper by a factor of 10.
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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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This is going to be the first time in space for McClain and the first spaceflight for Koch.
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Past studies have shown that spaceflight can reduce the heart rate, lower arterial pressure and increase cardiac output.
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A spaceflight company announces progress in its work, but an official at NASA wants the pace picked up.
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New York (CNN Business)This year didn't end up exactly how many in the spaceflight industry had hoped.
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With SpaceX's Starhopper, spaceflight opportunities open for Texas MORE have offered accolades to the people of the ISRO.
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The boosters can then be refurbished and used again, which SpaceX says drastically reduces the cost of spaceflight.
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In 2015, Branson offered the physicist a free ticket, which goes for $250,000, aboard his Virgin Galactic spaceflight.
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At the time, people predicted that it was the dawn of a new age of commercial human spaceflight.
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In July 1966, Mr. Young commanded Gemini 10, flying with Michael Collins, in the first dual-rendezvous spaceflight.
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The loss of the beloved cosmonaut marked the first time any human had been killed during a spaceflight.
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"[The Commercial Spaceflight Federation] applauds President Trump for signing Space Policy Directive 1, which directs NASA to partner with the US commercial space industry to return Americans to the Moon," Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a coalition of more than 70 space companies, said in a statement.
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The budget has remained stagnant too, even when past presidents have called for ambitious human spaceflight initiatives from NASA.
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Now, a group of scientists at the University of Michigan have released research that suggests spaceflight alters astronauts' brains.
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Spaceflight Industries packed the 64 satellites into a 20-foot-tall payload stack, which was divided into two parts.
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The company says reusing hardware is at the core of its plan to drastically reduce the cost of spaceflight.
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"The spaceflight experience I've had is going to allow me opportunities to participate in projects like this," Stott said.
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The U.K. government has set its sights high with a new £10 million ($12.5 million) investment in commercial spaceflight.
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The veritable Christmas tree of satellites are packed in a 20-foot stack divided into two parts, Spaceflight says.
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But there are already exciting things happening today, with potentially significant impacts on the next 50 years of spaceflight.
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He explained to CNBC's Sustainable Energy why it was so important to develop new sources of power for spaceflight.
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Though she'd long yearned to work on spaceflight, she feared there would be little demand for her arcane expertise.
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She currently holds a few spaceflight records — including being the first person ever to brew an espresso in space.
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Blue Origin plans to make its reusable New Shepard vehicle fully operational and ready for consumer spaceflight by 2018.
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"Human spaceflight is the reason that SpaceX was created, and we're incredibly honored to partner with NASA," Musk said.
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With the advent of commercial spaceflight, more people will be travelling into space, and they'll need something to wear.
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Eventually, the Cold War ended, too, leaving the United States without a human spaceflight rival to measure themselves against.
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So from us on the planet, far out of sightHappy Christmas to all, and to all a good spaceflight.
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Overall, the study gave NASA a starting point for research into how long-term spaceflight affects the human body.
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Debris was top of mind for Spaceflight Industries, a company that arranges rocket rides for lots of satellite operators.
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Richard Branson celebrates the first day of trading for the world's first and only publicly listed human spaceflight company.
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Virgin Galactic is still the group's space tourism venture, focused on providing sub-orbital spaceflight experiences to paying customers.
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In return, the vehicle will own roughly 49% of the spaceflight business as it trades on the open market.
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The lengthy stay could be helpful for NASA to better understand how long-duration spaceflight affects the human body.
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The flight itself was designed to help scientists gather new data on how older people are affected by spaceflight.
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No other nation has ever attempted such a feat — which means the mission could catapult China into spaceflight history.
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The massive ride-share was coordinated by Spaceflight Industries, a company that brokers rides on rockets for satellite operators.
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Earlier this week, we excitedly shared video of a successful rocket launch by Jeff Bezo's spaceflight company Blue Origin.
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For the first time, the US government has given a private spaceflight company approval to land on the Moon.
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However, Spaceflight has recently become a go-to company for small satellite operators looking to find rides to space.
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Spaceflight will do the same for the Artemis-7 lander, by finding available rockets the spacecraft can launch on.
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Spaceflight, which sets up satellite ride-shares on rockets, organized the original launch that the unlicensed SpaceBEEs flew on.
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This means that long-flight astronauts will likely have to rethink their workout regimens both before and during spaceflight.
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Image: Blue OriginIn these early days of commercial spaceflight, rockets die in spectacular accidents—but also, sometimes, on purpose.
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In this new age of spaceflight, what lessons can the Challenger explosion teach those aiming for the final frontier?
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Jeff Bezos' spaceflight venture Blue Origin plans to do another test flight this week, as early as Tuesday morning.
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These kinds of partnerships are key for Blue Origin and any other spaceflight company looking to turn a profit.
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In the early days of spaceflight, no one was really concerned with how many spacecraft were put into space.
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Spaceflight says it has been responsible for the engineering, mission planning, regulatory processes, contracting and more for the flight.
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This research will be necessary if reusable rockets are going to become a feature of spaceflight in the future.
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Receiving the pin is a high honor, acknowledging the crew's contributions to ensuring safety of the human spaceflight program.
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As Spaceflight Now notes, the Vega launcher has had 14 successful launches since it started in February of 2012.
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The Kennedy Space Center has a program called Astronaut Encounter where retired astronauts share their spaceflight experiences with visitors.
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These launches and landings also represent what could be the future of spaceflight and our own future in space.
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When you think about cutting-edge spaceflight in 2018, SpaceX is probably the first name that comes to mind.
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It's a great illustration of how there isn't a single path that leads someone to a love of spaceflight.
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That means there are two private spaceflight companies with the potential to send the Defense Department's probes into orbit.
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The spaceflight company is currently preparing to launch a radar satellite into space for the Spanish government on Feb.
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And if you don't get picked, remember that the future of NASA's crewed spaceflight program is a little murky.
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The film goes behind the scenes of the 1962 spaceflight of John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth.
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During the KSC meeting, two NASA administrators blamed NASA's funding for the lack of SLS bookings, NASA Spaceflight reports.
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Bridenstine's comments don't make it very clear, but NASA is closely involved with the U.S. development of commercial spaceflight.
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This summer, Elon Musk's private spaceflight company will make its Air Force launch debut, and in a big way.
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For most of the history of spaceflight, sending a rocket to space required mobilizing resources on a national scale.
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If successful, the endeavor would make SpaceX the first private spaceflight company to land a vehicle on another planet.
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Other concerns about prolonged spaceflight include a loss of bone and muscle mass, a weakened immune system, and fatigue.
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Spaceflight company Moon Express encountered this regulatory conundrum when it sought approval for the launch of its lunar lander.
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This private spaceflight company is just one of many founded by Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa.
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Those are what will determine how long SpaceX is grounded from spaceflight — and whether the company's business will suffer.
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Young was the commander of NASA's first shuttle mission and has been recognized as a pioneer in human spaceflight.
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Elon Musk is considered by many to be the godfather of private-sector spaceflight, and for a good reason.
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An abundance of spaceflight companies has cropped up recently, with each looking to make their mark on the industry.
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The private spaceflight company United Launch Alliance (ULA) usually plays the stodgy uncle to Elon Musk's young, swaggering SpaceX.
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Essential preconditions to the success of NASA's human spaceflight program are absolute transparency and openness to the American taxpayers.
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Because NASA and the United States are poised for a new era in human spaceflight (The New York Times).
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The MRI scans revealed brain changes in a majority of the astronauts who returned from long-term spaceflight missions.
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Meanwhile, the company's Falcon 9 rocket continues to demonstrate unprecedented reusability while working towards human spaceflight capabilities for NASA.
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The generations that followed them have no respect for space — yet — and to them spaceflight is another mundane wonder.
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The fate of the International Space Station (ISS), the crown jewel of modern human spaceflight, is murky after 2024.
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Payloads for the launch included a satellite for Spaceflight subsidiary BlackSky, which will join its existing orbital imaging constellation.
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"I'm a huge SpaceX fanboy, I think they are the best commercial spaceflight company out there," he told me.
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To add to that, Mir was a phenomenal success for the global spaceflight community despite all of its problems.
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But that achievement will only nudge them into fourth place behind the insane spaceflight records left by Mir cosmonauts.
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It will be the first time in the history of spaceflight that two women have conducted a spacewalk together.
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Indeed, this idea of humans "coming of age" through spaceflight crops up repeatedly in discussion of the Overview Effect.
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Contemporary human spaceflight is, after all, decidedly not luxurious, as one look inside the International Space Station aptly demonstrates.
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The successful flight of that craft, SpaceShipOne, was heralded as the start of an age of commercial human spaceflight.
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And she consulted on the design of Spaceport America, built in New Mexico by the spaceflight company Virgin Galactic.
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It's fascinating to think that we just don't know enough about the effects of spaceflight on a woman's body.
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That's in part because Bridenstine removed NASA's former leader of human spaceflight Bill Gerstenmaier from his role in July.
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Released in 2000, the sci-fi spaceflight simulation game was a critical and commercial success and produced several sequels.
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So how is Musk leading his company to disrupt the legacy industry of spaceflight and innovate global internet connectivity?
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"So much of what she did is buried in the mathematical DNA of how to do spaceflight," says Barry.
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Some of these alterations, found only after spaceflight, are thought to be caused by the stresses of space travel.
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Just last week, SpaceX successfully launched a satellite into space with a reused booster, a first for commercial spaceflight.
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The human spaceflight budget also funds a small space station in orbit around the moon, called the Lunar Gateway.
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Spaceflight has been offering its services since 2010, launching a total of 271 satellites on 29 separate rocket launches.
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That is why NASA refers to Mr. al-Mansoori as a "spaceflight participant" and not as a professional astronaut.
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Another experiment aimed to help scientists develop solutions for the radiation exposure astronauts will endure during long-duration spaceflight.
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Including aspects of the customer cabin and spaceflight environment from the perspective of people in the back. pic.twitter.com/WiUxhuf2zv
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Following his 1962 spaceflight, John and Robert F. Kennedy became such close friends that their families sometimes vacationed together.
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This new play about women on a rooftop on the evening before Sally Ride's 9673 spaceflight ceases its orbit.
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Rocket Lab launched its tenth Electron spacecraft on Friday morning, successfully delivering payloads for clients Spaceflight and Alba Orbital.
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It's a sign that even as the spaceflight industry undergoes drastic changes, Florida is still a top launch destination.
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The target customer is obvious; only the wealthiest travelers will be able to afford the privilege of private spaceflight.
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It also doesn't know the probability that an astronaut will be sterilized (made unable to have children) in spaceflight.
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While spaceflight is a relatively common trope in theaters, First Man joins a small grouping of films that depict the real history of spaceflight — Ron Howard's 1995 film Apollo 13, Philip Kaufman's 1983 film The Right Stuff, Theodore Melfi's 2016 film Hidden Figures, and HBO's 1998 miniseries, From The Earth to the Moon.
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Galactic will become the "first and only publicly traded commercial human spaceflight company," SCH and Galactic said in a statement.
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On a Thursday in March, the spaceflight company became the first to recover, refurbish, and relaunch an orbital-class rocket.
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Bridenstine acknowledged that spaceflight can be dangerous and unpredictable, so it's practically impossible to settle on an accurate price tag.
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The private spaceflight company just rolled out its newest suborbital space plane, a version of its SpaceShipTwo design named Unity.
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President John F. Kennedy, born 100 years ago on Monday, has earned an almost hagiographic status in American spaceflight history.
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Her choice to speak at the convention is a controversial decision that some spaceflight and policy experts have already decried.
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SpaceShipOne also went on to serve as the basis for the spacecraft used by Richard Branson's spaceflight company Virgin Galactic.
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Even before the schedule change, Whitson was poised to break the record for most cumulative spaceflight hours by an American.
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That way, the agency will have the money it needs to execute its ambitious human spaceflight program and science programs.
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That incident has left the U.S. with no human spaceflight capability for at least a few months, pending an investigation.
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Thanks to the SLS's high cost, that means that the SLS would really only be reserved for human spaceflight missions.
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New York (CNN Business)Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is set to become the first publicly traded commercial human spaceflight company.
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Koch's 328 days in space eclipsed Peggy Whitson's record for an American woman on a single spaceflight at 289 days.
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The goal was to help lower the cost of spaceflight and jump-start a potential industry revolving around the Moon.
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These vehicles, which just started flying a couple of years ago, represent a new direction for the country's spaceflight technology.
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Overall, it's hard to draw concrete conclusions about what aspects of spaceflight led to these changes (provided they are real).
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We're at the beginning of a new era of spaceflight, and on the cusp of new milestones for humanity itself.
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SpaceX shocked the spaceflight community yesterday by announcing a new ambitious goal for 2018: sending two people around the Moon.
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The race to become the first publicly traded company dedicated to human spaceflight is over, and Virgin Galactic has won.
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As for why spaceflight might result in a higher likelihood of virus reactivation, researchers pointed to a variety of factors.
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Koch's 328 days in space eclipsed Peggy Whitson's record for an American woman on a single spaceflight at 289 days.
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This new era of spaceflight around the world is changing the way people understand what an "astronaut" is, as well.
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The failure may inspire doubt as to whether cash prizes are an effective incentive for lowering the cost of spaceflight.
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If extended spaceflight is putting astronauts at a heightened risk for diseases, we need to figure that shit out ASAP.
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New York (CNN Business)New spaceflight technologies could reshape the global economy on a level not seen since the internet.
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That means the Falcon Heavy wouldn't have to go through the time-consuming process of getting approved for human spaceflight.
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VIRGIN GALACTIC AND SOCIAL CAPITAL HEDOSOPHIA ANNOUNCE MERGER TO CREATE THE WORLD'S FIRST & ONLY PUBLICLY TRADED COMMERCIAL HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT CO
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Shuttle – Shuttle is getting a head start on the future of space travel by building a commercial spaceflight booking platform.
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Why it matters: NASA hopes to play a lead role in developing a private spaceflight economy, including private sector astronauts.
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Driving the news: On Friday, NASA announced it would create a market for private human spaceflight in low-Earth orbit.
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Where it stands: People are having discussions around how to make the language used when talking about spaceflight more inclusive.
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That's why Darcy has five crucial guidelines for how to package a battery that's going on a human spaceflight mission.
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SpaceX has long been touting its ability to drive down the cost of spaceflight for either commercial or governmental customers.
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Image Courtesy of Blue OriginCappo added that he's aware of the risks of spaceflight but doesn't really have any reservations.
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Details: That reusability is key to SpaceX's business plan, which is aimed at reducing the cost of spaceflight through reuse.
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NASA is expecting private spaceflight companies and private astronauts using the ISS to reimburse them for their services in orbit.
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Astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann, Victor Glover, and Josh Cassada will be making their spaceflight debuts with these Commercial Crew flights.
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That's the idea behind a new commercial spaceflight startup founded by SpaceX founding team members Jim Cantrell and John Garvey.
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Human spaceflight still remains a distant goal for SpaceX, but the Falcon Heavy is a large milestone in that direction.
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"The NASA Twins Study: A Multidimensional Analysis of a Year-Long Human Spaceflight" is a triumph of cross-disciplinary science.
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But for Mark and Scott, their scientific contributions to the problems of long-duration human spaceflight are in their pasts.
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Eye trackers developed for spaceflight are now being used in corrective laser eye surgery to ensure correct laser beam positioning.
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The satellite is one of the heaviest SpaceX has ever launched, weighing more than 11,000 pounds, according to Spaceflight Now.
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SpaceX and Orbital were awarded NASA's second round of resupply contracts in January, along with another spaceflight company Sierra Nevada.
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These tests are more than just cool looking, they also could change the way spaceflight is done in the future.
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The paper also confirmed that spaceflight lengthened telomeres, which are caps on the ends of chromosomes, in Scott Kelly's DNA.
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Since the dawn of spaceflight, most spacecraft have communicated by sending radio signals to each other and to ground stations.
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But as with all things involving spaceflight, the reason for Cassini's collision course with Saturn is nothing if not practical.
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San Francisco-based Elysium Space describes itself as a "memorial spaceflight" company made of ex-NASA personnel and funeral experts.
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That could mean more programs like Commercial Cargo and Commercial Crew, in which NASA buys spaceflight services from private companies.
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With any luck, by the end of 2019, the long-awaited age of commercial spaceflight will have begun in earnest.
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"I understand the long range vision for the U.S. human spaceflight program is landing a human on Mars," Collins added.
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SpaceX has long been obsessed with reducing the cost of spaceflight by employing reusable rockets that can launch multiple missions.
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Creating new spaceflight capabilities is difficult, and NASA has imposed a particularly strict safety standard on its two commercial partners.
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Like billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson, he's using his fortune to develop new spaceflight hardware.
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In November 2014, Rosetta scored another spaceflight first when it dropped a lander called Philae onto the surface of 67P.
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"SpaceX continues to change the landscape of the space industry, " Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, told CNBC.
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Spaceflight Industries aims to eventually have constellation of 60 satellites to provide high-resolution photos of Earth nearly on demand.
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Despite other up-and-comers, it's still the first and only private entity to have successfully launched a memorial spaceflight.
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The UK government recently passed the Space Industry Bill, covering the basics like spaceflight licensing, insurance requirements and safety commitments.
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The yearlong mission included nearly 1.33 experiments geared towards understanding the effects of long duration spaceflight on the human body.
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NASA was founded with the understanding that spaceflight is an inherently risky enterprise, and it has lived through painful examples.
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Beyond spaceflight, Ye believes the his team's atomic clocks will be a window into exploring the mysteries of the universe.
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A successful mission could put NASA and the United States on the cusp of a renewed era of human spaceflight.
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These include the Commercial Crew Program, which is set to return human spaceflight capabilities to American soil via private partners.
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He left a prestigious career at research groups such as Bell Labs to lead NASA's human spaceflight program in 1963.
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"This historic mission will forge a path to making spaceflight possible for all people who dream of it," she said.
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As far back as the Apollo missions 50 years ago, aerospace giants and their lobbyists shaped NASA's human spaceflight programs.
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Virgin Galactic may provide a forecast when first commercial spaceflight will happen, which would be a catalyst for the stock.
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She was best-known though for work that greatly contributed to the first American orbital spaceflight, piloted by John Glenn.
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The big picture: The UAE's space program resembles a startup spaceflight company like Virgin Galactic more than NASA or Roscosmos.
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For its part, KFC, which has been teasing this launch in advertisements for a couple months, isn't new to spaceflight.
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If successful in fulfilling Modi's promise, India would become the second country in Asia, after China, to master human spaceflight.
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Over the last decade, Moore's law has also finally taken hold of spaceflight, with satellites and vehicles being built smaller.
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A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three spaceflight veterans slipped into a docking port aboard the station at 20143:54 p.m.
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"Spaceflight is like any other big engineering system," he said, noting that cruise ships and aircraft became safer after accidents.
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Via: India Space Research Organization Water is critical to the future of spaceflight, and especially to human colonizing other planets.
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Boeing was already working to surmount other technical and safety-related challenges on the multibillion-dollar NASA human spaceflight program.
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Her time in space was 12 days shy of the American spaceflight record, held by astronaut Scott Kelly, HuffPost reported.
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The sample capsule will then be taken to a lab at the Johnson Spaceflight Center in Houston, Texas for study.
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Further reading: Check out the card stack Joseph Stromberg did on private spaceflight, which puts SpaceX's efforts in broader context.
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Astronauts are still marveling at the beauty of spaceflight, and seeing sunsets and the Earth from the International Space Station.
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What we learn about the health of current and former astronauts will inform spaceflight possibilities, including deep-space missions to Mars.
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The tragedy, which took place 50 years ago today, remains one of the most horrific moments in the history of spaceflight.
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Before they could send humans into orbit, NASA's scientists needed to know if spaceflight would badly slow a pilot's reaction time.
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An ISRO rocket launch in February blew a spaceflight record out of the water by launching 104 satellites all at once.
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It was renamed for Christopher C. Kraft Jr. in 2018 to honor the man responsible for pioneering human spaceflight control concepts.
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After more than 50 years of human spaceflight, researchers know some of the risks that it poses to the human body.
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Spaceflight is inherently dangerous, and there are no government regulations in place specifically to keep people safe during commercial space travel.
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What didn't happen Many of NASA's human spaceflight endeavors serve less of a scientific purpose and more of a geopolitical one.
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And lowering the cost of access to space could make spaceflight a more affordable investment for companies in the long term.
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Spaceflight joins a small but growing number of outfits turning geospatial data culled from satellite imagery into actionable, and lucrative, insights.
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It coordinated the launch through a broker called Spaceflight Industries, which finds rides for satellites that need to get to space.
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"We try to engage the commercial spaceflight companies on thinking about the humans, and they're just not there yet," says Donoviel.
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But one of the more recent effects of spaceflight noticed over the past five to seven years centers on eye health.
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What starts as an $80 million joyride could lead to a new era of spaceflight, with new technology and new priorities.
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"We'll learn a lot about longer-duration spaceflight," Mr. Kelly said during a news conference on Thursday broadcast on NASA Television.
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"This is still a very preliminary conclusion," David Parker, ESA's Director of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration, said of Wednesday's findings.
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Spaceflight startup Vector — which specializes in micro-rockets — plans to launch its first orbit-bound vehicles from Virginia in mid-2018.
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Cardman has spent time in Antarctica and has said that her time in that isolated location could help her during spaceflight.
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That's unlike the computing hardware already present on the ISS, which has been stringently designed to withstand the rigors of spaceflight.
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In fact, co-founder Alan Stern explained that balloons remove many of the constraints we're used to with spaceflight in general.
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Spaceflight says it's been working on this stack for about two years now, tailoring it to all of the customers' needs.
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He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-22.0Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989.
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It's a fundamental part of the spaceflight company's business model — reusing expensive rockets rather than letting them crash into the ocean.
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At the same time, NASA is very much involved in doing their own projects but we're bringing that whole spaceflight back.
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Elon Musk's vision of spaceflight is gorgeous This spring SapceX intends to launch the next phase in its space exploration plans.
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Spaceflight is now seen, at least in part, as a capitalistic enterprise, where companies can potentially make money from future missions.
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So when a battery is being used on a human spaceflight mission, it must be packaged carefully to keep astronauts safe.
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"It's like when a Soyuz capsule is coming home," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard and spaceflight expert, tells The Verge.
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The whole field of private human spaceflight has grown slowly and cautiously, although Elon Musk wants to accelerate it through SpaceX.
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"Spaceflight is an extension of who we are as a species," June Scobee Rodgers, Challenger astronaut Francis Scobee's widow, told Mashable.
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Figuring out how the human body responds to long-term spaceflight is a lot of work, but someone's gotta do it.
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By fostering such a large competition, HE hopes Die Astronautin will inspire more girls and women to become interested in spaceflight.
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Spaceflight will work with manufacturers to find extra room on rockets that are already scheduled to launch bigger payloads into orbit.
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NASA Spaceflight has a good roundup of the projects, as well as some technical details about the rocket, if you're curious.
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He says that SpaceX, Boeing and other private spaceflight company logos may be viewed with a similar reverence in the future.
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"I won't go to space again with NASA, but I would never rule it out," Scott said, referring to commercial spaceflight.
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They understand each other, what the other one is experiencing during spaceflight and their worries about what they're missing on Earth.
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US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab has scheduled new dates for its first commercial rocket launch — a mission dubbed It's Business Time.
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If things go as planned, it could work towards removing one of the most significant restraints currently holding back commercial spaceflight.
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Richard Branson's space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, is going public, which will make it the first publicly listed human spaceflight company.
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So while these Falcon 9 landings seem somewhat routine, they serve a much larger purpose in the fabric of spaceflight today.
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It's could improve the reliability and cost-effectiveness of orbital spaceflight, but the aircraft's first launch test isn't scheduled until 2019.
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Spaceflight has a way of placing enormous strain on traditional bearings, the mechanical components that reduce friction between two moving parts.
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Her prolonged stay—at an estimated 328 days—will establish a new record for the longest spaceflight completed by a woman.
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At an estimated 328 days in space, Koch will set a new record for the longest spaceflight completed by a woman.
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They probably got a $1 billion plus satellite, a national asset on the pad or even crewed spaceflight on the pad.
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Meanwhile, SpaceX is still grounded from spaceflight after one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded on a Florida launchpad in September.
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The malfunction may be small, but it's one of the first issues ULA has experienced after years of near-perfect spaceflight.
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Without NASA's advances in spaceflight, commercial rocketeers like Musk would have a limited understanding of how to safely fly to orbit.
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For the first time, the U.S. government just gave a private spaceflight company the equivalent of a passport to the moon.
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In a number... Private spaceflight company Blue Origin has successfully launched and landed its New Shepard rocket for the third time.
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NASA remains the leader in this realm of spaceflight, having safely delivered seven vehicles to Mars, most recently the Curiosity rover.
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Private entities will have to charter a flight with a commercial spaceflight solution currently being developed under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
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The nonprofit gained recognition for coordinating the Ansari XPRIZE for suborbital spaceflight, which resulted in the flight of SpaceShipOne in 2004.
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The six-hour spacewalk helps the space station transition from the era of Space Shuttle transportation to that of privatized spaceflight.
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It is still unknown how SpaceX's ship might withstand the punishment of spaceflight, and how it is supposed to be powered.
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The company has purchased three flights on the experimental Electron rocket, a small launcher being built by spaceflight startup Rocket Lab.
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Though the Electron's engines have been qualified for spaceflight, Rocket Lab has yet to launch the vehicle for the first time.
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I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight.
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Meanwhile, SpaceX says it's working to get back to spaceflight as soon as possible, still targeting to launch again in November.
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US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab is still testing out its experimental rocket, the Electron, designed to send small satellites into orbit.
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By using boosters for multiple missions, it could slash the cost of spaceflight by multiple factors of 10, Musk has said.
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The private spaceflight company launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with Luxembourg's first military satellite, GovSat-1, in tow.
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Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson says his spaceflight company Virgin Galactic is 'two or three' flights away from taking people to space.
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When she leaves the space station in February 2020, she will hold the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman.
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That's considered one of the major risks of spaceflight, but we still don't know if female astronauts are susceptible to it.
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"The spaceflight environment impacts many physiological systems, resulting in potentially serious consequences, particularly for longer duration space exploration," the paper explains.
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Musk's goal since founding SpaceX in 2002 has been to make spaceflight cheaper, and all of that hinges upon rocket reusability.
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The ISRO team is no doubt hoping for a better outcome that will result in the nation's latest major spaceflight milestone.
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On Tuesday, private spaceflight venture Blue Origin invited a select group of space reporters to the company's headquarters in Kent, Washington.
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It's the first human spaceflight since 2011, but the coronavirus could put it in jeopardy if the key people get sick.
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Likewise, her long-duration mission opens windows of understanding that will be necessary for human spaceflight to the moon and Mars.
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People are genuinely interested about what it's like to experience spaceflight and try to get some of our perspectives on it.
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Pearce said for a time, he envisioned renting out his property to spaceflight fans as the "Rocket Road Bed and Breakfast."
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NASA originally hoped to end its American spaceflight gap as soon as 2015, but a government-designed rocket program was canceled.
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Former Department of Defense official Douglas Loverro has been named NASA's new head of human spaceflight after a months-long search.
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The game, which was in development, promised to revive the spaceflight simulation genre with a sprawling universe for players to explore.
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Captain Cernan's final spaceflight, the capstone of the Apollo series, did not generate the worldwide excitement of the Armstrong-Aldrin adventure.
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Other duties include advising Safety Mission Assurance officials on planetary protection matters and ensuring compliance by robotic and human spaceflight missions.
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Along with many other space-exploration companies, SpaceX is racing to build reusable rockets and gradually lower the cost of spaceflight.
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But Johnson's contributions to spaceflight extend beyond such historic moments, several of which are dramatized in the 53 movie Hidden Figures.
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The researchers learned that spaceflight is associated with oxygen-deprivation stress, increased inflammation and dramatic nutrient shifts that affect gene expression.
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It noted in a press release that Spaceflight will become "the cornerstone" of its space strategy pending close of the deal.
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The investment from the aerospace giant comes as Virgin Galactic prepares to become the first human spaceflight company to go public.
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The 1969 Apollo 11 spaceflight is known for its historical accomplishment of landing humans on the moon for the first time.
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Lesson 3 -- Instead of being loud, be calm In March of 1966, Neil Armstrong's first spaceflight was on the Gemini VIII.
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Here is a roundup of our reporting this year on the mission, and what you might expect next out of spaceflight.
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Here is a roundup of our reporting this year on the mission, and what you might expect next out of spaceflight.
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That's what the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin radioed to controllers during liftoff for the world's first manned spaceflight, 58 years ago today.
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That's what the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin radioed to controllers during liftoff for the world's first human spaceflight, 58 years ago today.
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Instead, Glenn, who died Thursday at the age of 95, went on and on about the beauty and awe of spaceflight.
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Under the Obama administration, the space agency experimented with new models of doing business with the commercial spaceflight industry, by doing a more hands-off approach when working with the private sector; instead of intense oversight of vehicle design, NASA has tried purchasing spaceflight services from private companies with less scrutiny on how the vehicles are made.
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If there are no changes to funding, then this latest promise will be just another presidential spaceflight decree that never truly materializes.
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Relativity, which is building rockets to launch small satellites, said Monday that a company called Spaceflight is purchasing up to six launches.
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The Jeff Bezos-backed spaceflight company launched an uncrewed test of its New Shepard rocket system on Sunday at 10:36 a.m.
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Spaceflight did more than just sign all the satellites to the mission: The company planned, engineered, integrated, contracted and sold the mission.
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The skies were full—and below them, in the heart of the space industry, she started meeting people who worked in spaceflight.
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"This is still a very preliminary conclusion of our technical investigations," said David Parker, ESA's director of human spaceflight and robotic exploration.
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"I think it finally worked out for us," Vladimir Solovyov, the chief Russian flight director, was quoted as saying in Spaceflight Insider.
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Elon Musk is the head of a spaceflight company, an electric car manufacturer / solar energy effort, and a brain-computer interface project.
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He's started a company called Cosma Schema, geared toward helping those in the spaceflight industry develop branding that's a bit more unique.
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She will remain on the station until February 2020, making her time on the station the longest single spaceflight by a woman.
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The goal was to see how long-duration spaceflight may affect the human body by comparing the identical twins to one another.
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A plume of gas was seen around the main engines of the vehicle about six minutes into flight, according to Spaceflight 63.
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The NROL-79 could be a pair of Naval Ocean Surveillance Satellite spacecraft used by the US Navy, according to Spaceflight Insider.
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To do this, Spaceflight finds extra room on rockets already launching larger spacecraft and provides hardware to help deploy vehicles into orbit.
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Of note, a small minority of astronauts experience changes in the shape of their eyeballs, leading to poor vision following their spaceflight.
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SpaceX, Elon Musk's private spaceflight company, will attempt to launch not one but two communications satellites to orbit high above Earth Wednesday.
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Before SpaceX and Boeing can launch the astronauts they must demonstrate their crew systems are safe for human spaceflight, according to NASA.
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"As spaceflight becomes more and more commercialized, I think this idea that we don't need a definition becomes less and less tenable."
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The flight paved the way for Monday's mission, when the Soyuz FG will prove if it is safe for human spaceflight again.
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In August, a spaceflight startup named Vector launched one of its test rockets from the site — though the vehicle didn't reach orbit.
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And that means Rocket Lab can finally start launching the payloads of its long customer lineup, which includes NASA, Spaceflight, and more.
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"SpaceX is going through a level of rigor and improvement that far exceeds everything that's been done in human spaceflight," says Autry.
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The Genes in Space experiment could potentially explain this anomaly, and offer further insight into the relationship between telomeres and extended spaceflight.
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It's the first Russian weather satellite capable of receiving emergency distress beacons through the international Cospas-Sarsat network, according to SpaceFlight Now.
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Where it stands: In addition to NASA, some private spaceflight companies, like Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, are focusing efforts on lunar water.
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While the passengers will undergo some sort of training beforehand, it's unclear if the two have any experience with piloting, nevermind spaceflight.
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It's also entirely possible the mission could get delayed, which is business as usual for all spaceflight, but especially for Musk's endeavors.
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"It's way down on my list of things to panic about," astrophysicist and spaceflight enthusiast Jonathan McDowell told Mashable in an interview.
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US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab is officially open for business and has scheduled its very first commercial launch for later this month.
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Fruit Fly Lab-02: Six boxes of fruit flies are headed up to study the effects of spaceflight on the cardiovascular system.
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The spacecraft is expected to splash down in the Atlantic Ocean about 230 miles east of the launch site, reports SpaceFlight Now.
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After more than 50 years of human spaceflight, researchers know some of the risks posed to the human body in zero gravity.
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Many industry watchers think that small satellites are the future of commercial spaceflight, so this is a good market to enter into.
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The industry publication Spaceflight Now has more speculation about this question, if you feel like digging into it ahead of the launch.
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When we think about spaceflight, we're still thinking about basically the same chemical reactions we were using back in the Apollo flights.
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"This is still a very preliminary conclusion of our technical investigations," says David Parker, ESA's director of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration.
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Two private spaceflight companies — SpaceX and Orbital ATK — have contracts with NASA that allow them to send cargo to the space station.
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And with reusable rockets bringing down the cost of spaceflight in general, getting an expandable habitat into space becomes even less expensive.
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The European and Russian spaceflight communities had hoped Schiaparelli would demonstrate that the Martian landscape was accessible to other nations and agencies.
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After the Space Shuttle program was retired in 2011, NASA partnered with the private sector to develop the future of human spaceflight.
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But perhaps McCandless's most significant spaceflight moment — the one that defines his career — is his untethered spacewalk and the photos from it.
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The fire occurred in January 1967, and the updated "Block II" Apollo capsule made its first spaceflight less than 21 months later.
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"Every body system you can imagine is impacted by spaceflight," said Dr. John Charles, Human Research Program associate manager for international science.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has his own private spaceflight company, Blue Origin, with its prototype reusable New Glenn rocket – another major innovation.
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Autry is a professor at USC's Marshall School of Business, as well as the director of the Southern California Commercial Spaceflight Initiative.
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Taikonauts have a long way to go before they will match the crewed spaceflight achievements set by NASA astronauts or Roscosmos cosmonauts.
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In spaceflight, propulsion usually involves storing combustible materials at high pressures, and there's always a risk that engines might leak or backfire.
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"This is the first record made of an animal's response to spaceflight," Simons said in 2006, as quoted by Burgess and Dubbs.
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The expedition, called CAVES (Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising), aims to prepare astronauts for the physical and mental challenges of spaceflight.
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Lastly is NanoRacks, a private company that focuses on a variety of human spaceflight opportunities ranging from research to space station habitats.
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And in the end, even when faced with rethinking her retirement dreams, Maria still has the future of spaceflight in her backyard.
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But Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is showing things can be done differently, according to Morgan Stanley analysts Adam Jonas and Armintas Sinkevicius.
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The company packed a record-breaking 64 satellites on a SpaceX rocket in December for a mission known as Spaceflight SSO-A.
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Women are also more likely to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, and spaceflight seems to provoke diarrhea, maybe from stress, Reid said.
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"We need to open up the benefits of human spaceflight to new countries, to new industries, and to new individuals," he said.
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SNC has also resolved to work with the United Nations to provide orbital access to nations that normally are omitted from spaceflight.
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"As we move towards commercial services, we're thinking more about what comes next, like hypersonic and point to point spaceflight," Whitesides said.
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