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.
Usachev has experience dealing with the consequences of a long-term stay in space, having spent two long-duration missions on the retired Russian space station Mir.
Co-author Dr Benjamin Blaiszik, now at Argonne National Laboratory, explained that the self-healing circuitry could find uses in a military setting where it would be exposed to extreme stresses or in long-term space applications.
In 2010, the White House released its sweeping national space policy for the country, which identified orbital debris and the long-term sustainable use of space as clear priorities.
We will focus our future research aboard this station on the long-term effects of space travel on human biology.
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Many forecasters, though, think that most of the near-term growth in space launches will come from another source: space tourism.
Forever 21, the Los Angeles-based apparel retailer, signed a short-term lease for the space last fall.
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LifeCare, the long-term acute care facility that rented space at Memorial, also prepared a statement for CNN.
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Most impressively, it has helped construct an orbiting laboratory that offers the prospect of long-term research into the effects of space flight, research that can not just improve the health and safety of our astronauts but also of people on Earth.
But I am thinking more in the long term, particularly in regard to large-scale space travel, colonization and commerce.
Businesses with server farms or massive data centers could eliminate performance bottlenecks and ensure long-term upgradability while saving significant operational costs in space and energy.
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Apart from the obvious long-term benefits of preserving the usability of the space environment, satellite operators would benefit in the short term from reduced insurance rates and fewer mysterious satellite outages caused by collisions we cannot track.
In any case, now that the Space Shuttle has been scuttled and the proposed Ares I Constellation program rocket has been cancelled, NASA has little near-term choice but look to private ventures for Space Station access.
On Monday Boris Bodin, head of the Russian Space Agency's long-term planning department, acknowledged that Moscow may keep Mir flying longer than earlier announced, until several months after the arrival of the living quarters module in July 1999.
In eastern Ohio, AFSCME is campaigning hard for Rep. Zack Space, even though the second-term Democrat has been abandoned by other unions and Democratic interest groups after he voted against health-care legislation.
For now, and probably in the long term, TV white space networks will be complementary to fibre-optic broadband rather than a replacement.
More and more in the Internet space, it seems that your long-term viability as a company is dependent on when you were born.
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This will allow people to experience artificial gravity in space, which may be important for long-term missions to places such as Mars.
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The BBC's Justin Webb in Washington says opponents of war will question the purpose of the surge, if the Iraqis themselves cannot use the breathing space provided by US forces to find long-term solutions.
And we have much to learn about their long-term effects before human crews can venture through the vast voids of space for months at a time.
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With the success behind it, SpaceX still needs to demonstrate the long-term strength of its business model, according to Howard McCurdy, a space policy expert and professor of public affairs at American University in Washington, D.
An e-book at the centre of a row over who can use the term "space marine" is back on sale on the Amazon website.
IKEA's long-term prospects look equally promising: its stylish, inexpensive furniture designed for limited space should have a natural appeal for Asia's once and future upwardly mobile professionals.
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.
But they do give the Scottish Executive breathing space as it formulates an economic policy designed to tackle Scotland's longer-term problems.
According to Steve Sakwa of Merrill Lynch, in the short term there will be severe scarcity in New York, which is now destined to remain one of the tightest office-space markets in the country.
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The most effective leaders, such as David Lilienthal at the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s or James Webb at NASA in the 1960s, were given some budgetary cover from Congress so they could engage in long-term planning that improved the infrastructure of rural areas or allowed us to make huge advances in our understanding of space.
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