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Would Houstonians be happy with such a cardboard cut-out of a spacecraft as Enterprise has become?

[But we are capable of sending] spacecraft near the Sun and that's the plan for the next generation of spacecraft.

New spacecraft like the Solar Dynamics Observatory could help answer some of these questions.

The signals indicate that the spacecraft bus is functioning normally and ready to begin orbital maneuvers and operational testing.

The spacecraft hovers near the asteroid, with its thrusters angled outwards so that the exhaust does not impinge on the surface.

The two spacecraft continued to float together, far out in space.

Chinese astronauts out of the spacecraft into the space, the first step in the door, marking China's space industry has a new beginning.

First, a variation-the error quaternion vector can be attained. The non-single question of the end attitude of the spacecraft can be solved.

Company officials say it will be able to transport satellites or spacecraft weighing up to fifty-three metric tons into orbit.

The altitude determination of spacecraft has always been a hot problem in spaceflight and aero aviation.

You want to help travelers from outer space - beaver, repair his spacecraft and is ready to survive the harsh winter.

The company added the concept of the Zenit-based rocket to the preliminary design of the new spacecraft as an unsolicited proposal.

A mission to Mars could involve swinging a spacecraft out of the Earth's orbit and into that of Mars before slowly making a descent.

This system, depicted in figure 1-8, is usually referred to as the Apollo Spacecraft.

The prospect of spending years cooped in a spacecraft would not deter people from applying, he said.

He says the spacecraft will begin beam back more detailed imagery and data within the next day or two.

Although some spacecraft have carried microphones, sound has never been reliably recorded in an alien atmosphere.

And eventually retreat return, combined body no longer turn, spacecraft taken directly from the front inverted evacuation, evacuation.

Later that year, nineteen sixty-five, the United States tried to have one spacecraft get very close to another spacecraft while in orbit.

Introduction: Key controlled by the direction of the spacecraft at designated locations can be landed safely into the next concern.

Now, the spacecraft seems to have found that the other two conditions have been met as well.

A few minutes later, the astronauts were able to see each others' spacecraft.

The release of the map marks a new phase of the mission for the spacecraft, which will now orbit the sun's innermost planet for a year.

But if new European Space Agency (ESA) findings from the Venus Express spacecraft are correct, it looks as if Venus coulda been a contender.

When they are floating forward by touching the wall of space capsule, they feel as if the spacecraft are moving rather themselves moving.

Indeed, Mars has something of a reputation for destroying spacecraft.

In one, she explains how technology used for docking spacecraft is enabling thousands of people to see without glasses or contact lenses.

This cannot be a co-incident and the true mission of this messenger spacecraft seems to be studying the approaching Planet X.

However, if the spacecraft is to be inserted into orbit about that inner planet, then there must be a mechanism to slow the spacecraft.

Suzuki said the technology might one day be used for unmanned spacecraft.

As the American astronauts continued to float through space, they inspected each other and each other's spacecraft.

With solar sail technology, it's easy to imagine manned and unmanned spacecraft traversing the solar system.

To explore the surface of the moon, astronauts must be able to survive outside the protection of their spacecraft.

The robotic spacecraft MESSENGER found out as it looked toward the Earth during its closest approach to the Sun about three months ago.

To keep astronauts in the equivalent of an equatorial region, the living quarters of the spacecraft would have to be doughnut-shaped .

Giant, Earth-sized UFOs have appeared before around the Sun and have been monitored and recorded by NASA's Stereo spacecraft.

Some of these systems might be used on the Icarus interstellar spacecraft itself, and others may play supporting roles.

Cooper made some careful telescope studies. There was no spacecraft back then, so telescope was the best way to observe the Moon.

It is located at the aft of the spacecraft and flanked by a pair of solar panels with a total area of 24 square meters .

They fired the spacecraft's control rockets. The spacecraft slowed and began to re-enter the atmosphere.

Over time, the buildup of these particles provides enough thrust for a small spacecraft to travel in space.

Shooting : flight games on the game, one of your favorite spacecraft started! Oh, remember back to your score .

By the calculation of the aerodynamic force of a plane, this article proposed the reduced drag method for a Lower LEO spacecraft.

Few flight teams have had to contend with a spacecraft more demanding of their attention and ingenuity.

CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: An American spacecraft orbiting Mars shows it is possible that the planet could someday support human life.

In the outer parts of the solar system, the sun's rays are too feeble to provide energy for spacecraft's instruments.

The engineers' solution was to add a three-digit security code that the cosmonaut would have to enter to gain command of the spacecraft.

Standby mode is a state in which the spacecraft awaits further instructions from ground controllers, due to a spacecraft fault.

It's been a challenging project to pack so much into five small spacecraft.

The pilot would then experience about a minute and a half of zero-G before the spacecraft begins to fall back to Earth.

NASA says the debris was a small piece of an old spacecraft motor which passed within three miles of the station.

At this time, land and sea and air with a supersonic spacecraft coming to me, and was parked in front of me.

ThePhoenix spacecraft exposed bright white crumbs at the bottom of a trench while digging near Mars' north pole earlier this week.

The control law of the flywheel in an integrated power and attitude control system (IPACS) for a spacecraft is investigated.

The orientation of a spacecraft relative to its direction of motion.

The spacecraft were not able to measure the temperature on the surface of Jupiter.

Since the launch, engineers have been continually been conducting testing and verification of the spacecraft's components.

It is so far from Earth that radio signals, traveling at the speed of light, take 16 hours to reach the spacecraft.

Reaction wheel is one of the main disturbance sources for the attitude control system accuracy of spacecraft.

Orion spacecraft to return to the moon in the United States had the only remaining part of the Constellation program.

The spacecraft touched down in the Mongolian desert to rapturous applause from mission control in Beijing.

The guidance law design is simple, without relying on a stored reference trajectory, and could be used for spacecraft's autonomous guidance.

Mission controllers have to account for the solar sail's spin rate, distance to the sun and the sun angle to plot the spacecraft's course.

Such a view was recently beamed back by NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft.

Travel between consensus realities did not require spacecraft or spacesuits.

He floated out and away from the spacecraft. Millions of people listened as he said.

Officials have asked the public to suggest names and symbols for the unit and for a cargo spacecraft that will serve it.

The rest of the images will be returned to Earth over the coming weeks and months as the spacecraft speeds along to Pluto.

So it will be a very tense moment, you know, as we are watching that spacecraft landing on another planet.

This article presents a dynamic model for a large flexible spacecraft with its end mass undergoing a large angle, high speed maneuvering.

Sunlight filters through Saturn's rings in sepia tones in this artful view of the dark side of the rings taken from the Cassini spacecraft.

When the planes in the air during a scuffle, shooting flames lit up the entire Galaxy, a real spacecraft simulation game.

Researchers say that the Sun is one of the few places people have not yet sent a spacecraft.

This new spacecraft is NASA's first step forward in its next great leap, as the U. S. space shuttle program heads into retirement.

In a Jovian stationary orbit, a spacecraft goes around the planet at the same speed as the ionosphere.

The wonders of this robot bird are manifold, not least the bird's outward design, which looks like a King of the Rocketmen-era spacecraft.

'I'm feeling quite well, ' said Zhai Zhigang as he climbed out of the spacecraft.

It will improve our confidence in the assessment of potential damage, not just for the space shuttle but for any other future spacecraft.

It's a dirty job, but two NASA spacecraft are ready to do it.

The shell of the spacecraft must be able to endure heavy loads and intense vibrations.

The report did not suggest the spacecraft was in any danger, and described the adjustment as minor and routine.

'We are not interested in slowing down the launch of NASA's new spacecraft, ' he said.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

The decoupled spacecraft with large parameter variations and external disturbances is of good robustness.

Armstrong and Aldrin moved through the small opening between the two spacecraft. Then they moved Eagle away from Columbia.

Once a year for about 50 days, the spacecraft turns back on for a checkup and recalibration.

In the vent of a suborbital launch, the booster would be jettisoned before Tycho Brahe spacecraft reaches zero gravity.

China now surpasses Europe as a base for spacecraft launches, while India and Japan send up a few every year.

The spacecraft slowed and began to re-enter the atmosphere.

This July the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is expected to go into orbit around the solar system's second-largest planet.

This July the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is expected to go into orbit around the solar system's second-largest planet.

NASA's Fermi spacecraft has discovered a pair of enormous gamma-ray-emitting bubbles extending from the Milky Way's center.

The next key used to control the spacecraft about not encountered meteorite , or fall too fast .

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is poised to leave the solar system and reach interstellar space. In fact, it may already have.

The company's CST-100 spacecraft can carry up to seven passengers to destinations such as the International Space Station.

The instruments aboard Rosetta recorded the first close-up image of the biggest asteroid so far visited by a spacecraft.

Looking homeward in its long journey to Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft offered up this rare view of our home planet with its moon.

The shock induced by satellite-rocket separation is one of the severe mechanical environments that the spacecraft has to experience.

Thursday, she said. It will orbit for two years, and during the mission, it will dock with China's Shenzhou-8, -9 and -10 spacecraft s.

Schirra fired a rocket exactly long enough to put his spacecraft in the same orbit.

After their historic flight around the earth, the three courageous astronauts stepped out of their small spacecraft.

The first cosmic speed (V1) spacecraft as the earth's surface along the circular motion must have the speed, also known as speed around.

The plan called for a Gemini spacecraft carrying two astronauts to get close to an unmanned satellite.

It was so powerful that it pushed the instruments of 15 spacecraft off scale, whether or not they were pointing in its direction.

The equations derived by the eccentric genius are still used to design cars, build bridges and send spacecraft into the cosmos.

China appears to be designing a spacecraft-launcher that attaches to the undercarriage of a large warplane.

Liquid sloshing under low gravity environment is a problem that must be considered during general design of liquid-filled spacecraft.

Some of them, like the camera, were lost by astronauts while they did work outside their spacecraft.

Before manned spacecraft could be sent to space, the problem of getting the spacecraft safely back to earth had to be solved.

Ricky: At first, they were friendlier than I thought. On their spacecraft, they gave me a drink.

The Orion , billed as the next generation of manned spacecraft , has been described by some NASA engineers as " Apollo on steroids " .

We had four spacecraft, two around Mars, two on the surface, an amazing accomplishment.

Because no resistance as long as space is not space to speed up the pace of astronauts and the spacecraft should be the same ~!

The spacecraft is now orbiting the moon in an elliptical orbit that passes over the polar regions of the moon.

Celestial navigation is basic model of autonomous orientation navigation of the spacecraft around the earth.

Structure vibration control is of great importance for the melioration of spacecraft dynamic property.

In this paper, we have proposed an adaptive control scheme for the capture of a tumbling spacecraft using free-floating space manipulators.

The law of universal gravitation helps us predict accurately the orbit of a spacecraft.

NASA planned to send a spacecraft to the Sun, aiming to solve two great mysteries of astrophysics - the corona and solar wind.

The best way to do that, apparently, is to throw a spacecraft at it and then examine the debris thrown up by the impact.

The best way to do that, apparently, is to throw a spacecraft at it and then examine the debris thrown up by the impact.

Then a problem developed. The door of the spacecraft refused to shut tightly.

Russian ground control center planned for the flight out of its orbit on the 26th, and then the spacecraft will fall in the South Pacific.

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft that has flown close by to one of the more enigmatic planets in our solar system: Uranus.

China expects to launch the space station's first module later this year, followed by a manned spacecraft to dock with it.

This meant that the pilot had to have some means of flying the spacecraft toward a relatively limited landing area.

Clearly, such an array is infeasible for a spacecraft that must weigh less than 20 tons in total.

Orbit Maneuvering Opportunity is an important parameter influence orbit maneuvering consumption in spacecraft orbit maneuvering.

NASA says the spacecraft may no longer be able to generate enough power to communicate.

instead such star wars occurred out in space where little other than the associated army, commanders and spacecraft were affected.

instead such star wars occurred out in space where little other than the associated army, commanders and spacecraft were affected.

Currently, all of the fuel needed for a mission is carried up with the rocket, and the weight of the fuel limits the size of the spacecraft.

The legislation, which Obama signed in October, instructs NASA to move ahead with a new spacecraft that could land on an asteroid by 2025.

The satellite-to-satellite range and time difference measurement were necessary to distributed spacecraft and formation flying systems.

Now, engineers suggest that the process of natural selection may have surprising implications for spacecraft as well.

After a week in space, the spacecraft returned to earth.

A new type of rocket shot into the air with the spacecraft in which he traveled.

Cheering erupted in the control room when Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang opened the hatch of the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft and went outside.

Did the U. S. government hide evidence of a crashed alien spacecraft in Roswell, N. M. ?

and that's - may not be time enough to launch a spacecraft to deflect the orbit.

and that's - may not be time enough to launch a spacecraft to deflect the orbit.

The other countries, which have sent spacecraft to Moon, are the United States, former Soviet Union, Japan and China.

Almost all our spacecraft subsystems include spare equipment to increase reliability on the long flight to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

Spacecraft: Vehicle designed to operate, with or without a crew, in a controlled flight pattern above Earth's lower atmosphere.

From the s duty of these elements, this thesis builds a system of spacecraft project management in a organizational level.

In May, the company's Xombie spacecraft became the first reusable rocket to shut off its engines in mid-flight, restart them and then land.

It later emerged that the spacecraft's heat shield had been damaged on launch, letting superheated air inside and tearing it apart.

Flywheel has been identified as one of the main disturbance sources that affect the precision of attitude control system of spacecraft.

Then, in a few weeks' time, China will launch another unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou 8, and try to link the pair together.

The sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft captured this snapshot of the development of a coronal mass ejection (CME), an explosive sun storm.

The sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft captured this snapshot of the development of a coronal mass ejection (CME), an explosive sun storm.

Both spacecraft photographed the surface of Mars and sent images back to NASA.

That spacecraft takes off and lands like an airplane, employing an on-board rocket that fires up at high altitudes.

Hawking's main concern was that a fleet of alien spacecraft could turn up wanting to strip mine the Earth for its bountiful resources.

The new strategy seeks to replace this with a virtuous circle, buying more specialised spacecraft on a reliable schedule.

A Japanese spacecraft has spotted two huge holes in the sun -- gateways for solar material and gas to spill out into space.

Mobile, Alabama, as well as New Orleans (just above the Soyuz spacecraft in front of it) show up well in this shot taken from the Cupola.

The and of the Orion spacecraft are joined using friction stir welding at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility.

To keep people on the ground safe, it's best to deorbit a spacecraft with a strong burn of propellant, to slow it down at the right time.

Two of the brighter spacecraft in the present day sky are the International Space Station (ISS), and, when it is up, a NASA space shuttle.

Two of the brighter spacecraft in the present day sky are the International Space Station (ISS), and, when it is up, a NASA space shuttle.

The test was the first opportunity to exercise the two NPOESS-provided NPP ground segments with the NPP flight spacecraft.

The WGS satellites eventually will replace the Air Force's decades-old constellation of Defense Satellite Communications System spacecraft.

NASA spacecraft began orbiting Mercury, becoming the first to fly around the solar system's innermost planet, the space agency said.

This was the time for the crew to test all the spacecraft systems.

However, if the various factors considered accurate, spacecraft, before returning after the withdrawal of the track maintenance or cancel.

Also, charge accumulation may occur on the electronics on board satellites and spacecraft, resulting in a build-up of the electric field.

NASA astronaut Edward Lu is campaigning for a new spacecraft that would divert asteroids on a path to slam into Earth.

CLTC runs China's launch sites and tracks and controls its spacecraft, and is part of the army's General Armaments Department.

Interplanetary spacecraft may require more radiation shielding than the low-orbit and lunar craft that humans have travelled in so far.

Interplanetary spacecraft may require more radiation shielding than the low-orbit and lunar craft that humans have travelled in so far.

One of the small thruster rocketsthatturnedthe spacecraft stopped working.

Like Leonov, White was sorry when he had to return to his spacecraft.

Once in space, the spacecraft went into orbit around the Earth.

say new video provides fresh evidence of how the spacecraft may have been damaged during liftoff.

The GOES N program series consists of three state-of-the-art imaging spacecraft and the supporting ground command and control elements.

This image of Saturn was made by NASA's robot spacecraft Voyager2 as it began to explore the Saturn system in 1981.

The space agency would no longer operate its own spacecraft, but essentially buy tickets for its astronauts.

Teacher: That today we work together to turn them into better good of our spacecraft?

Some people don't believe industry is capable of building launch vehicles and spacecraft without government direction.

Some people don't believe industry is capable of building launch vehicles and spacecraft without government direction.

Japan has set next month for the debut launch of a new unmanned resupply spacecraft for the International Space Station.

It's a real danger for spacecraft. But we could dispose of the deric by simply sending them back to the atmosphere.

However, those events that do occur will be more damaging, with experts warning that our spacecraft and aircraft may be unable to cope.

An approach for spacecraft autonomous rendezvous in an elliptical orbit without orbit information is developed.

Classic games like flight, the rules are simple: Let the spacecraft flew to the site can be designated.

The Daedalus spacecraft weighed around 50, 000 tonnes, almost all of which would have been a very rare Helium isotope called Helium-3.

It's extremely hard for a spacecraft component to survive reentry even if you want it to.

If one accepts that Virgin's combination of plane and spacecraft qualifies, then Clarke could posthumously prove to be right.

his paper studies the reentry guidance rules and the effects of the reentry errors on the landing spot of a spacecraft.

his paper studies the reentry guidance rules and the effects of the reentry errors on the landing spot of a spacecraft.

A degree in aerospace or aeronautical engineering can be used to design aircraft and spacecraft, of course.

As a spacecraft begins to fall back to earth atmosphere, the crew begin to feel gravity.

The techniques currently used to clean spacecraft only detect heat-resistant and spore-forming bacteria.

Since then, engineers have been checking out the spacecraft before turning on the instruments, including the camera.

India has lost all contact with an unmanned spacecraft conducting its first moon mission, the national space agency said on Saturday.

Then the plan is to give the spacecraft some rotational stiffness about the Y axis so the elevation angle can be controlled easily.

Today, I was too tired to bed immediately fell asleep. Unknowingly, I took on the spacecraft came to the Kingdom.

Armstrong and Aldrin moved through the small opening between the two spacecraft.

The Xinhua news agency says the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft coupled with the module about 340km above the surface of the Earth.

Hence spacecraft control, state estimation systems are affected by the variations of the spacecraft's inertia parameters.

A spacecraft hasn't yet been chosen for a mission to Pluto, the only planet smaller than Mercury.

Usage: Widely used in such industries as pharmacies, petroleum chemicals, aviation and spacecraft, rubbers and lithium battery, etc.

Space scientists have collected a wealth of information from spacecraft that have orbited, landed on and dug into the Martian surface.

This article deals with torque allocation for redundant flywheel configurations in a spacecraft attitude control system.

The spacecraft carried instruments to examine the surface of Mars.

The dummy spacecraft can be made to do many things that an actual spacecraft does in space.

Project Icarus is an ambitious five-year study into launching an unmanned spacecraft to an interstellar destination.

So it is only our assumption that a spacecraft can fly at the velocity of light or at a velocity faster-than-light.

In case of accidents, the escape tower will jettison with the spacecraft, bringing the astronauts to safety.

Now he is working on a rocket (the Falcon 9) and a spacecraft (the Dragon) that are meant to take passengers and cargo to the space station.

For the little spacecraft that could, there is no rest. Galileo goes on, to Ganymede.

He was speaking of the space shuttle, an old but arguably serviceable spacecraft.

Since launch, engineers have been conducting testing and verification of the spacecraft's components.

This was where the Soviets launched spacecraft headed for the moon, Venus and Mars, as well as cosmonauts headed for earth orbit.

The impactor: A large spacecraft slams into the asteroid hard enough to jolt it off its Earth-bound track.

The reusability of this next wave of spacecraft will help develop commercial markets, which is believed to be space tourism.

Each will be as wide as several kilometers across and the spacecraft would collect sunlight up to 24 hours a day.

In 2002, the orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft spied evidence of a reservoir of frozen water near the planet's poles.

The private sector's role in unmanned space operations - such as the manufacture of satellites and robotic spacecraft -- is nothing new.

The unmanned spacecraft docked automatically yesterday with an orbiting space station.

In fact, the spacecraft in the earth under tremendous pressure, if the speed is not enough, the result is bound to fall crash.

The MESSENGER spacecraft is zeroing in on Venus for the most significant gravity assist maneuver of its long journey to Mercury.

NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano.

Much like one might watch a football game, the Anu would hover in their spacecraft over the battlefields cheering on the winning slaves.

The website contains imagery collected by two NASA spacecraft that together create "stereo" 3-D images of the sun's coronal mass ejections.

The spacecraft will orbit the sun as an equilateral triangle with sides of 5 million km.

The technical and economic analyses show that China should not develop the space shuttle as the manned spacecraft.

In inflatable spacecraft (see article) rigidity is a good thing. In spacesuits, it has been thought of as bad.

From a billion miles away, the Cassini spacecraft continues to send spectacular images of Saturn and its moons.

Currently mesh reflector antennas are utilized onboard the spacecraft for satellite communications, remote sensing and VLBI applications.

This was almost certainly in preparation for its three-spacecraft space station.

The results may be of reference value to selection of launching window of a spacecraft.

Comparing with quadrupole and magnetic SIMS, TOF-SIMS is proved more suitable for imaging analysis of the complex spacecraft contaminants.

It's a real danger for spacecraft. The way we could dispose of the debris by simply sending them back into the Earth's atmosphere.

An unpiloted spacecraft will attempt to dock with the module; two piloted spacecraft will then follow suit.

This paper aims at providing a certain basis for improving the attitude control precision and stabilization of the spacecraft.

Comments: The Wideband Global SATCOM 2 spacecraft is part of a military mission to serve U. S. forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Aerospace engineers are the brains behind the construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft.

Spacecraft are vehicles used for flight in outer space.

a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight.

a method of controlling the flight of a missile or spacecraft by reference to the positions of celestial bodies.

The new launch center aims to serve the next-generation rocket carriers that do emit poisonous and pollutive gas and new-type spacecraft.

In this paper, the issue on fast attitude maneuver control of a spacecraft with flexible appendix is studied.

After that, the U. S. and other nations will rely on vintage Russian spacecraft to ferry their astronauts to the $100 billion station.

a spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.

NASA has never attempted to land a spacecraft on Mars at such a high northern latitude.

At the time of the Shoemaker-Levy impacts, the Galileo spacecraft was well on its way to Jupiter.

Space agency officials now knew that it was possible to join two orbiting spacecraft.

In this paper, the quaternion is taken for positional parameters to control the attitude of a spacecraft.