Sentence examples for spaceflight by the from inspiring English sources

William H. Pickering, a leader of the first successful spaceflight by the United States and its first two decades of planetary exploration, died on Monday at his home in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif.

A rocket that could be used dozens or even hundreds of times would reshape the economics of spaceflight by slashing the cost per launch.

In his April speech, Mr. Obama tried to assuage criticism that he was not interested in human spaceflight by announcing the continued development of the Constellation program's Orion crew capsule.

These results demonstrate C. elegans can be used to study the effects of altered gravity and suggest that C. elegans responds to spaceflight by altering the expression of at least some of the same metabolic genes that are altered in response to differing terrestrial environments.

Contrary, a lack of forces introduced into bone by the PSE-structural continuum (as a reaction to physical inactivity or in extreme, e.g., during spaceflights by the lack of gravity) leads to disorganization of the Sharpey fibres followed by a decrease of calcified bone mass down to atrophy [ 46, 47] proving the vital role of peri- and endosteum in bone maintenance, repair, and regeneration.

Now, even as the most notable creation of this Third Era of spaceflight becomes a museum attraction, we're already well into a Fourth Era of Spaceflight, marked by the first space tourists, the first private space companies and even, earlier this year, the first privately developed and operated capsule to travel to the International Space Station.

Since the winning of the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight by Burt Rutan and Paul Allen in 2004, the Foundation has grown in new areas, launching the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics and the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE.

As the icon for 30 years of human spaceflight conducted by the United States, the space shuttle symbolises impressive technical and social achievements.

Sunita L. Williams, who is concluding a six-month stay on the space station and set the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman.

"We are not abandoning human spaceflight by any stretch of the imagination," General Bolden said.

Rubins was the first woman aboard the ISS since Italian Samantha Cristoforetti returned to Earth with the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman (199 days) in June last year.