With surprising events and space missions, the mobile social game appeals to both children and adults.
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Most space missions aim to last many years and so have to be built in a certain way.
As part of a competition, students write algorithms for the SPHERES to accomplish tasks relevant to future space missions.
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To date, China has so far launched four unmanned space missions to test the hardware for the manned flight.
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Off-world settlements will provide fuel and life support materials for space missions and planetary operations, and for return of goods to Earth.
One attraction is that it would almost certainly lead eventually to European astronauts being invited to take part in deep space missions.
The native Ohioan worked as an aerospace engineer on NASA space missions.
"Several space missions are planned for 2013, including India's first mission to Mars and the launch of our first navigational satellite, " he told lawmakers.
It was the year after the Challenger disaster, and we were hit especially hard in my school, where space missions were part of the curriculum.
While the benefits that the suits may provide are not critical for current space missions, both the MIT group and Dr Locke are thinking longer-term.
NASA's Space Technology Program focuses on maturing advanced space technologies that may lead to entirely new approaches for space missions and solutions to significant national needs.
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In 1982, astronauts Sally K. Ride and Guion S. Bluford, Jr. became the first woman and first African-American to be tapped for U.S. space missions.
The massive plane can return to load up for new missions quickly and can provide an alternative to launch facilities that are already backed up with existing space missions.
This is a plutonium-driven device that produces power far more efficiently than the traditional Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) used hitherto on space missions, such as on Cassini.
One of the welcome features of several recent space missions has been the decision to post pictures online almost as soon as they come down to Earth.
She said ground-based experiments and space missions planned in the next few years would give more detailed information on distant planets like those announced by the Kepler team.
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The post went on to outline the efforts that are underway that may add evidence to the debate, namely the space missions Kepler and the Mars Science Laboratory.
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Space missions are miracles of communications technology and precision engineering.
The miniature parasols idea, for example, envisages at least 16 trillion such parasols, the latter requiring an estimated 20 million separate space missions to get them up into orbit.
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It could be attached to folding solar panels of the sort used in space missions, and back on Earth it could provide portable power in deserts or at the poles.
The position, which was first created and held by Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton in 1962, oversees the activities of the astronaut corps, including managing training programs, appointing technical assignments and choosing the crews for upcoming space missions.
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And while you didn't exactly have to be a rocket scientist to join the original space missions (the U.S. Mercury and Apollo programs recruited many test pilots), if you want to stand a chance against other heavily-qualified applicants, it's certainly an advantage.
From 1994 to 2001, Jones flew on four space shuttle missions, including one to the International Space Station.
Representative Giffords is a true Arizona gal, a blue-dog Democrat who prefers riding horses and motorcycles to limos, backs a strong military and is, in fact, married to Navy pilot and combat veteran Mark Kelly (he flew 39 missions in Operation Desert Storm and now commands space shuttle missions).
It will be one of the last space shuttle missions and the launch will be attended by President Barack Obama and other VIPs.
One of five European Space Agency missions being considered for launch in the early 2020's, Nasa also has a series of exoplanet projects at various stages of development, and both the James Webb Space Telescope and ground based observatories are getting in on the act.
The U.S. perfect it with putting a man on the man, then with a series of modern high tech space shuttle missions and Mars ROVERS. But now, the final frontier captains are more likely to be Russians, with their hopes for a human Mars landing someday, or Chinese, with a new China space station due within the next 8 years.
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It flew a Spacelab mission and numerous International Space Station assembly missions and rendezvoused with Russia's Mir Space Station.
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