Second, find the person who will galvanize public support behind a new NASA mission in space.
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Her focus included emphasizing Air Force core values, its mission in space, and funding for F-22 fighters.
The answer is probably money, and the fact that the cushioning airbags were too heavy to be carried on the kind of rocket Nasa was willing to pay for to put the mission in space.
Her good looks and her stylish attire drew attention, as did her appearances at high-profile events like the Academy Awards, the opening of the Mission: Space attraction at Disney World, and the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland.
Space Shuttle Endeavour was staged for a possible rescue mission in case Space Shuttle Atlantis gets into trouble while the crew is fixing the Hubble Telescope.
In front of you, you have the joint crew of Endeavour and the Space Station, and we are the ones that are fortunate enough to be able to accomplish this great mission together in space.
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Hoshide had previously visited the ISS on a mission with the space shuttle Discovery.
This marks the first successful cargo mission to the space station by a private company.
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She added that the next step was to get the suits tested on an actual space mission.
What's interesting from the perspective of this column is that it is Europe and not America that is launching this space mission.
In 1988, in the first space mission since the explosion of the shuttle Challenger in January 1986, the shuttle Discovery was launched.
So instead of a vision of the future, we are now sort of looking back at this heroic period of the space mission.
Worms have survived their first space mission - living in liquid.
The current space mission is Chris Hadfield's third trip into orbit.
However results emerging from the so-called Mars500 project suggests that even carefully screened individuals are likely to suffer from psychological problems from a prolonged space mission.
All of it is travelling at several kilometres per second - sufficient velocity for even the smallest fragment to do a lot of damage if it strikes an operational space mission.
The preferred way to deal with rogue asteroids is still a Hollywood-style heroic space mission to knock the object off course, or possibly blow it up although almost surely as an unmanned effort.
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Baty also points to the fact that Cal Tech manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the federally funded NASA research and development center that has been in the news for its Mars Rover robotic space mission.
The biggest takeaway is just how many achievements IBM has actually has been a part of -- everything from typewriters and the modern day credit card magnetic strip, to the computing power behind the Apollo space mission.
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Now Major Peake, as he waits to be assigned a space mission, is in an ongoing programme of spacesuit training, zero-g flights to "practice weightlessness" and 12-day stints 20m (65ft) under water to research "crew behaviour for long-duration missions".
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So, next year after the service mission with the space shuttle, which will hopefully take place later this year, after the new instruments that are going up have been installed, and the old instruments that have broken have been repaired...
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.
Moscow (CNN) -- The Russian space agency on Monday postponed the launch of a new manned mission to the International Space Station due to last week's accident in which an unmanned cargo craft was lost, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
He joined Nasa in 1980 and is a veteran of four space shuttle flights, commanding the mission that launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit in 1990.
Atlantis will fly her mission to the International Space Station no earlier than February 10.
Space shuttle mission specialist Daniel Barry battled an issue common for many Earth-bound office workers: printer problems.
He watched the launch from Darmstadt, and was thrilled to see the mission finally get into space.
The December Soyuz mission will restore the space station crew size to six and continue normal crew rotations.
It flew a Spacelab mission and numerous International Space Station assembly missions and rendezvoused with Russia's Mir Space Station.
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