Congress has adopted language strongly favoring space-shuttle derived rockets for this purpose, rather than a version of the Delta IV.
It marks the end of America's space-shuttle programme, whose last mission is planned to launch on July 8th (see article, article).
Substantial improvements would be required to meet those criteria, and many lawmakers and other NASA critics argue a faster and less expensive path would be to rely on a space-shuttle derived alternative.
He was also the first Canadian to operate his country's major contribution to the space shuttle - its robotic arm, or "Canadarm".
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.
Just this past month, Vincent finally got permission to shoot in NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, home of the soon-to-be-closed space shuttle program, and Vincent's holy grail.
He is also a former two-time space shuttle astronaut, having flown in 2008 and 2009.
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He nodded towards the pain inflicted by storm Sandy and then moved on to the stump speech that anyone who has attended more than one rally knows so well - the five-point plan, the anecdote about the US flag rescued from the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the dully-delivered homilies about the need for change.
Perhaps if we went on the space shuttle it would be--without gravity we'd be tall again.
It is launching a fleet of spy satellites and plans to test a rocket that can reenter the atmosphere--officially, for space shuttle research.
In 1996 Lockheed won competitions to build a replacement for the space shuttle, an infra-red satellite-warning system and a new rocket-launcher for the American air force.
It's almost the same mix as in the solid-rocket boosters on the Space Shuttle, and it's powerful stuff.
Space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 crew carried it into orbit in May 2011, where it was installed on the station's truss structure.
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On Thursday, December 3, the target launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on an eleven-day International Space Station mission is scheduled at Cape Canaveral.
The five-segment booster is intended to power the early flight phase of Nasa's proposed Ares 1 launch vehicle - its replacement for the space shuttle.
After 25 years, 32 successful missions, and more than 120-million miles traveled, space shuttle Atlantis made what's likely to be its last landing yesterday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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For the Space Shuttle, being a shorter-duration flight of just a couple of weeks, we still train for over one year just specifically on the task that we'll accomplish on our mission.
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The space station crew has been limited to two full-time residents since last year's suspension of space shuttle flights in the wake of the Columbia accident.
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In 1986, seven astronauts died after the Challenger space shuttle exploded 72 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral.
The space shuttle uses ATK's four-segment solid rocket boosters (SRBs) to do the major part of lifting the shuttle stack off the Earth.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Four compounds used on the space shuttle Columbia could pose an immediate hazard to people on the ground, a NASA spokeswoman said Sunday.
If events go as planned, the Curiosity spacecraft late on Aug. 5 will plunge into the thin Martian atmosphere at 13, 200 miles per hour and quickly brake by swooping back and forth in aerodynamic S-curves, much like the Space Shuttle.
The re-boost sets the ISS up for the visit of space shuttle Discovery next month.
The company is developing a heavy-lift rocket with twice the cargo capability of the space shuttle, and also dreams of building a spacecraft that could carry a crew to Mars.
It has been estimated that about 25 tons of helium-3, equal to just one payload of a space shuttle, would provide enough energy for the U.S. for a year at current consumption levels.
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.
The two monkeys were part of the joint Russian-American Bion 11 mission in 1997, flying aboard the space shuttle.
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