Sentence examples for spaceflight projects from inspiring English sources

In 1986 Ockels was assigned to the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, Netherlands, where he worked on human spaceflight projects until 1996.

He has founded a private firm, Blue Origin, that is working with Nasa and other groups on spaceflight projects and that late last year test-fired a new rocket engine.

"The UK can now join in with important microgravity research work on the space station, win industrial contracts for future human spaceflight projects and forge new links with Nasa, Russia and hopefully China – and one day India – in space.

China "will push forward human spaceflight projects and make new technological breakthroughs", the report said.

The privately-financed spaceflight project is led by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp.

Following Yang's return, he was named vice-commander-in-chief of the astronauts system of China's manned spaceflight project.

"This is a huge leap in camera technology for spaceflight," Rodney Grubbs, project manger for NASA's Imagery Experts Program, said in a written statement.

Our Mars rovers are impressive and our billionaires keep pouring money into private spaceflight, but neither project captures the public's imagination, and the very term "Space Age" seems antique.

Various spaceplane projects aimed at human spaceflight that have been pursued in recent years are described.

Last year, a blue-ribbon panel was reviewing NASA's human spaceflight program, in particular an ambitious project called Constellation to send astronauts back to the Moon.

NASA Spaceflight has a good roundup of the projects, as well as some technical details about the rocket, if you're curious.