Sentence examples for orbiter program from inspiring English sources

He directed the Ocean Remote Sensing Laboratory in Miami in the early 1970's and had an important role in the NASA Seasat orbiter program.

General McCartney was given command of the space center 18 months after the Challenger exploded on Jan . 28 , 1986killing all seven crew members aboard and leading to the suspension of the shuttle orbiter program.

That total includes $916 million for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), a key orbiter program.

Photographs taken by earlier spacecraft, including the Soviet Union's Luna 3 and Zond 3 (launched in 1959 and 1965, respectively) and NASA's Lunar Orbiter program (launched in 1966), found significant differences between the far side's terrain and the surface of the moon visible from Earth.

One lucky 14-year-old, Jim Duncan, who witnessed the landing from the Jet Propulsion Lab, was inspired to study engineering and ended up working the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter program.

The work was completed though the support of NASA Venus Climate Orbiter (Akatsuki) Participating Scientist Program Grant Number NNX16AC80G.

Endeavour, the fifth operational orbiter of the shuttle program after Columbia, Challenger, Discovery and Atlantis, had its first space flight on STS-49 launching from Kennedy Space Center on May 7 , 1992

The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ISASS) of Japan plans to contribute the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) to the BepiColombo program, the ESA Cornerstone mission to the planet Mercury.

It is the very basis of the shuttle program: that a reusable orbiter strapped to booster rockets and an external tank can be reliably operated.

The orbiter, which had made the shuttle program's first flight into space in 1981, was concluding its 28th mission (STS-107) when it broke apart over Texas at approximately 9 00 am Eastern Standard Time at an altitude of 60 km (40 mi), showering debris across southeastern Texas and southern Louisiana.

Narasimha took part in reviews at various stages of "Mangalyaan," India's Mars Orbiter Mission, including the cryo rocket program.