Sentence examples for station delivery from inspiring English sources
This was the fourth station delivery carried out by SpaceX.
It played every conceivable orbital role: science platform, satellite launcher, telescope repair station, space station delivery truck.
"Looking ahead, the station team will look at other options to improve the station delivery process however, in the meantime, all cyclists should dismount before walking into the station with their bikes," Saddler said.
The shuttle Atlantis glided to a flawless Florida landing on Friday, wrapping up an 11-day space station delivery mission and bringing a flight engineer, Nicole P. Stott, back to Earth after 91 days in space.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla .— The shuttle Atlantis glided to a flawless landing in Florida on Friday, wrapping up an 11-day space station delivery mission and bringing a flight engineer, Nicole P. Stott, back to Earth after 91 days in space.
Like the first time in December, the booster touched down vertically just a few miles from where it took off on the space station delivery mission.
NASA has contracted the private spaceflight companies SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif., and Orbital Sciences Corp., of Dulles, Va., to build unmanned cargo ships for station deliveries.
As Price pointed out, NASA is shifting its focus away from space station deliveries and other fairly monotonous jobs as well as redoubling its commitment to scientific inquiry, a difficult undertaking that Price feels may have fallen by the wayside.
NASA is paying billions of dollars to Orbital Sciences and the SpaceX company to make station deliveries, and it's counting on SpaceX and Boeing to start flying U.S. astronauts to the orbiting lab as early as 2017.
Pipeline means all parts of those physical facilities through which gas moves in transportation, including pipe, valves, and other appurtenance attached to pipe, compressor units, metering stations, regulator stations, delivery stations, holders, and fabricated assemblies.
Surendranath says the work provides key insights to help develop carbon-neutral replacements for fossil-fuel systems without requiring changes in the existing infrastructure of gas stations, delivery vehicles, and storage tanks.
