Assured, advantaged access to space must be the preeminent task for the immediate future.
This is a huge step, a milestone, enabling cheaper, more reliable access to space.
In the long term, scramjets offer the possibility of cheap access to space.
Its purpose is to guarantee access to space for the small satellites (up to 2.5 tonnes) built by European nations.
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The company's ultimate goal is to re-create the science-fiction dream of making access to space the province of individuals, not governments.
Nowhere is this more true than with respect to the necessary, if not sufficient, precondition to space power: reliable, ready and affordable access to space.
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Decisions are now being made that will determine whether this country has reliable, affordable access to space and maintains its technological leadership in the aerospace field.
Windowfarms are vertical hydroponic farming systems that are designed to help apartment farmers and educators, with little access to space and light , get started growing their own food.
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In the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, it became transparently obvious that the United States could ill-afford to depend virtually entirely upon so fragile a system as the space shuttle for its access to space.
Increased access to space will bring challenges for medical experts and scientists alike as they attempt to minimise the side-effects of space travel for the general public while promoting the exhilaration of floating in microgravity.
Cheap access to space has been "the sort-of Holy Grail" for decades, "and we're not much closer to that than we were 50 years ago, " said Hertzfeld, who is also an adviser to Planetary Resources.
SSTL, who is helping build Galileo (and is acutely aware of its cost, no doubt), views smartphones as a way to democratize access to space because they are far less expensive than purpose-built control systems.
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As far as the rest of humanity goes, ever since the persistent Dennis Tito secured his place as the first tourist in space, he has become a rallying point for enthusiasts trying to get access to space for a broader (ie, poorer) range of customers.
"They might jam a smart device to make systems not available in the airport, or play with the bar code of flight tickets, so that you can have access to a space you shouldn't have access to, " he says, while admitting that these scenarios are extreme.
On Sunday, mission specialists Michael Massimino and Michael Good had to contend with a handrail blocking their access to the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), resorting in the end to tearing it off with brute force.
People are heavily dependent on cars, the air quality is poor and access to green space is haphazard.
The redesigned site will focus on travel, offering city guides, hotel discounts and access to office space in a couple of cities.
Similarly, environmentalists should redouble their efforts to provide more access to open space for millions of people through expanded purchases of land throughout the country.
Others have already started shedding their own properties: Yell, a directories business, is now using Regus memberships to give its salespeople in Britain access to office space when they want it.
Most of the network access was more to have access to large storage space, which was typically broken up and distributed across employees as separate areas.
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There are more than 50 countries with an official space agency, he says, but nowhere to go and no real access to the International Space Station.
Both the air cargo and drone operations depend primarily on access to Pakistani air space, which Islamabad has kept open.
The Center for Security Policy today released a major paper outlining a comprehensive approach to U.S. space policy and programs designed to assure long-term American access to and exploitation of outer space.
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The Clementine II, Kinetic-Kill Anti-Satellite and Military Space Plane programs are the technological seed corn for such crucial capabilities as space-based missile defenses, neutralizing enemy satellites and having prompt, reliable and inexpensive access to and use of space.
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They could maintain their free range status subject to a number of conditions including having adequate space and access to daylight, he said.
It has been my vision that access to this majestic Open Space and parkland is available to residents to enjoy in perpetuity.
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"There's undoubtedly a phenomenon that's not good for health, which is about not giving access to outdoors or green space, safe risk-taking and so on, " said David Pencheon, a medical doctor who now heads the National Health Service's sustainable development unit.
The Bush Administration's incoherence on this matter only serves to encourage its critics at home and abroad to redouble their efforts to impose an approach that would, as a practical matter, permanently foreclose assured U.S. access to and control of space.
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