Overseen by its Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, it includes the management of commercial space transportation, exploration systems development, human spaceflight capabilities, advanced exploration systems, and space life sciences research and applications.
Discover finalists were named in nine categories: Computers, Interaction, Transportation, Exploration, Medical Diagnostics, Emerging Technologies, Editor's Choice/Assistive Technologies, Environment and Personal Entertainment.
Touch-screen computers survey developments in architecture, transportation and exploration.
"It is no longer a matter of if, but when, the Arctic Ocean will open to regular marine transportation and exploration of its lucrative natural-resource deposits," he wrote.
"We've had the engineering capability with chemical propulsion to undertake a mission to Mars for years, for decades," said Les Johnson, who heads the exploration transportation technologies portion of the advanced space transportation program at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Eventually, researchers foresee benefits across a wide range of industries, from manufacturing and agriculture to transportation and space exploration.
As well as offering new opportunities in science, transportation, entertainment, and exploration, balloons, Holmes argues, ushered in "a new kind of sublime".
The impact will be felt in areas as diverse as computing and information technology, health care and biotechnology, environment, energy, transportation, and space exploration, to name a few.
These results use design-to-cost development methods and focused infrastructure advancements to identify and characterize a workable space industrialization architecture including space transportation elements, asteroid exploration and mining equipment, and the earth orbit infrastructure needed to make it all work.
The Beijing-based business is involved in crude oil and natural gas exploration, transportation, storage and marketing, as well as the production and sale of chemical products and the transmission and sale of natural gas.
In the future, they will have a lot of difficulties with acceptable cost of nuclear energy, with converting the nuclear energy to conventional energy, and with small thermonuclear installation suitable for transportation or space exploration.
