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Hernandez will serve as Discovery's flight engineer for launch and landing, and will wield robotic arms on the shuttle and space station.
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If successful, the X-47B would claim two firsts for an unmanned jet: in-flight fueling capability, and launch and landing aboard Navy aircraft carriers.
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The American Aerospace Medical Association Commercial Spaceflight Working Group published a document in 2009 saying that most individuals with "well controlled medical conditions" could withstand the acceleration forces involved in the launch and landing of a commercial spaceflight.
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But I see where we stand as more of a launch pad than landing dock.
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The real fun begins at 90, 000 rubles, when you don a spacesuit and experience a simulated launch, flight and landing in a Soyuz rocket, complete with Russian- language capsule controls.
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His wife had watched the launch of his mission but missed the landing, so it was great for her to see the shuttle in the air, he added.
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He also got a peek at the NASA engine shop, shuttle landing facility and control tower, vehicle assembly building, and mobile launch platforms, as well as several other difficult-to-remember locales.
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The game begins in 1957, with the preparations to launch the first satellite into orbit, and ends with the first Moon landing.
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The launch comes on the heels of the successful flight of OTV-2, which made an autonomous landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
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