Bill Gates in his private jet flies with more personal space than does Joe Six-Pack when making a similar trip on a commercial jetliner.
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"We effectively use it to rinse our mouth three times and then spit out, " explained Daniel Limonadi, the Curiosity surface sampling phase lead at the US space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Simplified aid for EVA rescue, and that's the little cold gas jet pack that snaps to the bottom of your space suit backpack.
This shuttle never actually went into space, but it was carried on a 747 jet from Washington to New York in June.
After her stint with Aldebaran in Paris she went back to MIT to get a master's degree, then worked for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (which makes space probes), and Syyn Labs, a robotics art collective.
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Steady electronic "heartbeat" tones relayed from Curiosity across space to Earth indicated a successful landing to the control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Still, the delay diminishes the company's credibility, benefiting European Aeronautic Defense and Space unit Airbus, in the battle for control of the commercial jet market.
The U.S. Navy, which uses Bubble Wrap to protect everything from jet parts to navigational equipment, likes the flat sheets because they occupy less space on its transport ships.
Still, it only further diminishes the company's credibility and places it at a further disadvantage to European Aeronautic Defense and Space unit Airbus, in the battle for control of the commercial jet market.
By contrast, a jet fighter plane travels at speeds of Mach 1 to Mach 2, and the Space Shuttle blasts into space at Mach 25.
Nazi aerospace engineers pioneered the jet engine and their early work on rockets laid the foundations for the post-war space programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union.
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"We are very pleased that the engine started and continued to thrust, " said Marc Rayman, Deep Space 1's chief mission engineer and deputy mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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In 1989, a U.S. fighter jet destroyed a U.S. satellite by firing a modified air-to-air missile into space from an altitude of 80, 000 feet.
But today Boeing is no longer so heavily dependent on its civil-jet business, now down from 80% of sales to little more than half, as its defence and space interests have grown.
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