The UN marked April 12 as the first annual International Day of Human Space Flight.
Second, the success of all human space flight programs is intimately tied to the success of Station.
WHITEHOUSE: Jacob J. Lew Testimony to House Science Committee, 08/06/1998 | The White House
But conscious of the criticism, she made an impassioned plea for public support of human space exploration.
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In seeking to accommodate Station cost growth within human space flight, we will not compromise Space Shuttle safety.
WHITEHOUSE: Jacob J. Lew Testimony to House Science Committee, 08/06/1998 | The White House
One year after that mission, I left NASA for a job in the private sector supporting human space flight.
The United States should endeavor to recover the lead position in human space exploration with the cooperation of other nations.
Vincent Sabathier, director of the Human Space Exploration Initiatives Program at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, is more optimistic.
Karl Doetsch, the president of ISU, ran Canada's human space flight program.
You can have it all as a super human space marine - jetpacks, armor, hammers, swords, guns, bombs - in melee, ranged and aerial combat modes.
While putting money into renewed human space flight efforts, the proposal cuts scientific research, particularly the study of the other planets in our solar system.
The rocket is being designed to carry out the agency's future human space exploration goals, such as sending astronauts to visit an asteroid or Mars.
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The US space agency is scheduled to retire its space shuttles next year, and has begun the development of a new human space launch "architecture" called Constellation.
"But that fits into the way he does business, " Pearlman said, noting Bezos' other venture into space flight, Blue Origins, which aims to make human space flight cheaper and easier.
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They will, in particular, point to the private ventures of people like Elon Musk in America and Sir Richard Branson in Britain, who hope to make human space flight commercially viable.
The Huffington Post, the news aggregation and commentary site, is hosting a pre-inaugural ball Monday night with the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Musk Foundation, which supports research on renewable energy, human space exploration, and pediatrics.
Ultimately, the aim is to spur human space flight, though the officials acknowledged work on a capsule that potentially could carry astronauts or, less likely, a spaceplane with wings vaguely resembling NASA's retired space shuttles, remains at an early stage.
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And if NASA can't get the space shuttle to fly for four more years, the US is in a big hole in terms of human space flight because there's nothing to replace it coming along for about five more years.
The Obama Administration has canceled plans it inherited to send astronauts back to the Moon, the Space Shuttle is about to retire, and the only near-term human space flight initiative on the books is a handout to rich California businessmen to update old technology.
Viewed as a respected author and a renowned expert on Mars, Dr. Zubrin has testified in recent years before several government committees and in 2009 spoke in front of the Augustine Commission on the subject of the future of America's human space flight program.
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.
WHITEHOUSE: Jacob J. Lew Testimony to House Science Committee, 08/06/1998 | The White House
The lives of these people are very precious to us, and the board considered that very serious matter that these brave people thought that what they were doing was important, that it was significant, that it was part of human space exploration, that the things that were going to be learned from this mission were worth the risk that they were taking.
The Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development puts space applications in the service of human welfare.
Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne is the sole DIY rocket to put a human into space.
But Iranian officials have been public about their desire to put a human into space before the end of the decade.
"Robotics is playing a key role aboard the International Space Station and will be critical in our future human exploration of deep space, " said Michael Gazarik, director of NASA's Space Technology Program.
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The study of human physiology in space benefits more than just budding space tourists and astronauts though.
America has not developed a new vehicle to advance human exploration in space in nearly a quarter century.
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An earlier X Prize resulted in the first nongovernment human trip into space.
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