This is particularly true in regard to design control over manned mission flight safety provisions.
The first developmental flight, or mission, is targeted for the end of 2017.
Moving, assembling and testing ordnance, purifying and storing fuel, organizing the flight deck, mission planning, safely navigating the ship, preparing food, training and performing maintenance on important ship and aircraft systems go on around the clock.
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It's traditional to open up cans of peanuts and pass them around to the team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory responsible for overseeing the landing of the rover, said David Oh, lead flight director for the mission, earlier this week.
The soldiers were waiting for their flight to Cyprus for a mission, according to the Web site.
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Philip Lawson, a Suffolk farmer now in his late eighties, returned to the place where, as a young flight lieutenant on a secret mission, he had spied out a potential airstrip and encouraged the local people to scythe the fields and remove the rocks.
The mission will be a straightforward flight to the Red Planet and return without landing.
And we had highly anticipated their return because we couldn't wait to congratulate them for their extraordinary performance and the excellent efforts on the science mission on this very important flight.
Many safety improvements had been made for the return to flight, but the STS-114 mission was as much about restoring credibility to the embattled space agency as it was about testing Discovery's new features.
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The 15-day mission will be the 35th orbiter flight to the station.
Investigators have attributed the failed 1999 Climate Orbiter mission to human error: The flight software used metric units while the ground system that wrote the code used Imperial measures.
And the important thing is that you have a good, solid background in the technical fields -- the science, the technology, the engineering and the math -- to build on that, because once everyone comes and is selected as an astronaut, we all train generically for space flight, and then we train specifically for our mission.
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The last mission carried all the equipment necessary for manned flight and tested life-support systems.
But documents that were declassified in the 1990s showed Mr. Powers's flight had been a joint Central Intelligence Agency-Air Force mission, making him eligible for military medals.
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April 1970 witnessed remarkable flight and ground crew resilience and ingenuity during an aborted Apollo 13 mission.
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The Apollo 11 moon mission turned out to be Armstrong's last space flight.
If a glitch arises during the mission and the hookup is called off, another test flight would have to be scheduled.
Bobak Ferdowsi, a flight director who changed his hair style for every milestone in the mission, had buzzed the sides of his head and dyed it with stars and stripes.
Examining Boeing's contention that EgyptAir's Flight 990 crash was caused by a pilot bent on a suicide mission, a topic she says fits perfectly with her center's focus on using science to verify facts.
Mr Farnworth said that a highlight of the two-week project was a tour of Nasa's old mission control, during which he got to sit in the flight director's chair.
Without a crew, however, the antennae would quickly lose lock with Mission Control, and the ISS computers would not receive commands from the flight controllers.
Because Atlantis will not be able to reach the space station if it gets into trouble, or is damaged, on its Hubble flight, the Endeavour orbiter will be made ready on the pad for a rescue mission in case it is needed.
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One year after that mission, I left NASA for a job in the private sector supporting human space flight.
Libes has formed a new accelerator for mission-driven companies in Seattle called Fledge (as in fledgling bird about to take flight).
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Rounding out the crew is two-flight veteran astronaut Ellen Ochoa (robotic arm operator and flight engineer), rookie pilot Rick Husband and the commander, Kent Rominger, flying his fourth mission and his first in the left seat.
It's not the miniature robotic space shuttle that NASA's planning to send into orbit this month, but another of the space agency's unmanned vehicles has edged closer to its beginning its mission, with the "nearly autonomous" Global Hawk aircraft having completed a key test flight bright and early on April 2nd.
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Without the flight measurements, "we would be blind" to changes in the ice sheet, said the mission leader, Seelye Martin of the University of Washington in Seattle.
"The moonbuggy race is intended to inspire students to confront the kind of hard tasks that NASA takes on, so they will be ready to carry on the mission, " said Dr. Jim Dowdy, University Relations officer with the Education Office at Marshall Space Flight Center.
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