The price makes the 14 May launch the single most valuable flight for pure science in the history of European space activity.
True to the title of the book, many of these have involved experiments that explore the limits of human ingenuity in realms such as private space flight, brain science and digital knowledge-gathering.
From the scientific perspective, for the story to close for science, flight rates have to be high, said Alan Stern, chair of the scientific organizing committee for the conference and associate vice president of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division in Boulder.
Even as NASA's budget has decreased by approximately 15 percent in constant dollars since 1993, we have made provision for several important new initiatives to maintain the delicate balance between human space flight, earth and space science, and advanced aeronautics and space transportation technology.
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He will be speaking about space flight, space exploration, space science and technology, environmental stewardship and educational awareness as it relates to seeing the Earth from Space.
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In May he joined with Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, to support the opening of a new National Flight Academy that will teach math and science to young people through an aviation-oriented camp.
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.
Some suspected that the models used to justify the flight ban were based on sketchy data and incomplete science.
At the time of his space flight, Garriott worked at MMO publishing giant NCSoft on the science-fiction MMO Tabula Rasa.
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"You're going to actually get a chance to actually drive flight hardware on another planet, " said Bill Nye, a children's science show host on U.S. public television and a member of Planetary Society's board, who was also present for the announcement.
Looking very much like the cover of a circa 1970 science fiction novel, the engraving is a pleasing dedication to the art of the era of space flight.
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