Armstrong spent seven years at NACA's high-speed flight station at Edwards Air Force Base in California, becoming one of the world's best test pilots.
After returning and graduating from Purdue, Neil applied to become a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base.
With the White House and Congress pressuring NASA to reduce space station costs and construction delays, the agency felt compelled to adhere to a fixed shuttle flight schedule for station missions, which would affect non-station missions as well, the report said.
The 15-day mission will be the 35th orbiter flight to the station.
The failure last week of an unmanned freighter to the ISS has left the Russians questioning the reliability of their usually ultra-reliable Soyuz fleet, and the planned manned flight to the station on 22 September has now been postponed as a consequence.
The RQ-4A Global Hawk drone crashed during a routine training flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, according to Jamie Cosgrove, a spokeswoman for the Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons Program at the base.
Two years later a craft by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and aerospace designer Burt Rutan made two trips into space in 14 days and captured the prize. (Anousheh Ansari later got her wish, a flight to the International Space Station, in 2006.) Diamandis was finally launched.
The landing marked the end of the first private flight ever to the International Space Station.
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This is the 127th space shuttle flight, the 29th to the station, the 23rd for Endeavour and the third in 2009.
The cosmic ray particle physics detector was carried to the International Space Station on the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour and installed under NASA direction.
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Dorner underwent flight training in 2009 at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada before serving in San Diego.
Arriving for about 18 months of flight training at the Pensacola Naval Air Station on January 26, 1949, Neil became qualified as a Naval Aviator for carrier landings two weeks after his 20th birthday.
In seeking to accommodate Station cost growth within human space flight, we will not compromise Space Shuttle safety.
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The plan for the demonstration cargo flight calls for the Dragon to approach the station, go through a series of communication tests, then get the go-ahead for a rendezvous.
Second, the success of all human space flight programs is intimately tied to the success of Station.
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Following the fish rescue, the repair work will take place on Bath Flight which begins just over Halfpenny Bridge behind the train station.
Before joining the astronaut corps in 2004, Marshburn worked as a flight surgeon for NASA. He flew to the space station once before, in 2009, on the STS-127 space shuttle mission.
If there can't be a new manned mission from Earth by then, administrators will have to decide whether to take extensive steps to extend the vehicle's certification for the return flight, proceed on a return flight without certification, or de-man the space station by flying back the remaining crew members within the certification period, he said.
"I've experienced 11 days docked at the space station, 16 days in space on my last flight, so getting back to life in zero gravity, that is never boring, everything from putting on your clothes to brushing your teeth to working to transfer of hardware, all of its fun in zero-g, " Marshburn told NASA before the launch.
On Wednesday Heathrow Express, a train that connects central London to Heathrow airport in about 15 minutes, opened its first flight-information display screens and check-in services at its Paddington Station terminal in London.
The only way he could get on the train and make his flight was to put on an impromptu martial-arts demonstration right there in the train station.
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And if the crew assigned to man the deep-space mission travels up separately to the station, it would also mean all the elements for their long-duration flight could be launched without the complications of ultra-safe abort systems that complicate manned rockets.
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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This flight marks Hadfield's third trip to space, and second visit to the International Space Station.
Hernandez will serve as Discovery's flight engineer for launch and landing, and will wield robotic arms on the shuttle and space station.
But Aeromobile's technology involves installing a small mobile base station on board to manage signal strength, and ensure calls do not interfere with flight systems.
In a nondescript building, down a largely unmarked hallway, is a series of rooms, each with a rack of servers and a "ground control station, " or GCS. There, a drone pilot and a sensor operator sit in their flight suits in front of a series of screens.
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