Sentence examples for returning astronaut from inspiring English sources

The most chilling scene in the 1968 epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey is when the computer, HAL 9000, is asked to open the spacecraft doors for the returning astronaut.

Review panel takes a hard look at NASA's goal of returning astronauts to the Moon.

Their memories, akin to those of returning astronauts who studied Earth from outer space, are worth hearing.

Under President Bush's 2004 space initiative, NASA will be returning astronauts to the moon by 2020 and potentially sending them later to Mars.

Since the 1960s, the space agency has developed a rigorous therapeutic framework for returning astronauts".We had people to talk to and examples to follow.

It's a bit like saying the US military controlled the Apollo programme because the US navy took the returning astronauts out of the ocean.

In his budget request for the 2011 fiscal year, Mr. Obama proposed canceling the Constellation program for returning astronauts to the moon, financing commercial companies for taking astronauts to the International Space Station and developing new space technologies.

One essentially continues the current program of returning astronauts to the Moon — developed by the Bush administration after the loss of the shuttle Columbia in 2003 — but gives up on the goal of getting there by 2020.

NASA officials said they hoped to have a plan for fixing the design as early as March and did not expect the problem to delay the goal of returning astronauts to the moon by 2020.

As managers in Houston reviewed repair options, NASA officials in Washington announced the roles of each of its 10 field centers in returning astronauts to the moon by 2020.

With plans for the shuttle to be retired in 2010, the United States is developing new launching vehicles capable of returning astronauts to the Moon and eventually taking them to Mars.