Perhaps if we went on the space shuttle it would be--without gravity we'd be tall again.
It's almost the same mix as in the solid-rocket boosters on the Space Shuttle, and it's powerful stuff.
His first was 17 years ago when he flew on the space shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station.
Working at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, his first job at NASA was working on the space shuttle.
And high-tech ceramics are used to make everything from electronic components (capacitors and resistors) to the heat shield on the space shuttle.
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang was also born in Shanghai in 1940 and became an American citizen in 1975 and has flown on the space shuttle once.
Return from ISS on the Space Shuttle was a lot smoother.
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Rafael San Miguel began his career at NASA working on the Space Shuttle program, and has spent the past 23 years as a scientist for The Coca-Cola Company.
The primary difference between the terrestrial-based instruments and AMS is that AMS' science instrument systems were miniaturized and ruggedized for launch on the space shuttle and operation on the space station.
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The Compass Computer he designed for Grid Systems with the screen folded over the keyboard appeared in 1981, flew on the space shuttle, and inspired virtually every notebook design since.
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However, what I still could do was work on the Space Shuttle program as a scientist where my work developing food for astronauts involved a project to send the first can of Coca-Cola into outer space.
It depends what question you ask and who you ask, but they did a poll recently that showed that people were - more than 50 percent of the taxpayers supported the space program, yet on the space shuttle, they were split, 48 for, 48 percent against.
Ecolution, a 26m twin-masted schooner, is owned by Dr Ockels, a physicist and astronaut who became the first Dutch civilian in space, flying on the Challenger space shuttle on a Spacelab mission.
President Reagan had planned to deliver his annual State of the Union address on the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded killing all seven crew members aboard.
The cosmic ray particle physics detector was carried to the International Space Station on the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour and installed under NASA direction.
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NASA, America's space agency, to have used them on board the space shuttle.
The many moon landings are just the most obvious on the plus side of the ledger, the twin space shuttle disasters the most grievous on the negative side.
It seems very unlikely it would be able to hit--it seems impossible it could the tiles because this is sort of on top of the space shuttle.
It was a gash on the wing of space shuttle Columbia that caused its destruction and the deaths of seven astronauts during re-entry February 1, 2003.
Hoshide had previously visited the ISS on a mission with the space shuttle Discovery.
Before joining the astronaut corps in 2004, Marshburn worked as a flight surgeon for NASA. He flew to the space station once before, in 2009, on the STS-127 space shuttle mission.
Ms. Ride also was on the commission that investigated the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Almost all shuttle flights will now go to the international space station, and NASA is already examining using the existing cameras on the space station to take photos of the shuttle before it docks.
This is the first spaceflight for the two Russian Cosmonauts, but Ford was at the station in 2009 on a quick jaunt piloting the Space Shuttle Discovery.
On Thursday, December 3, the target launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on an eleven-day International Space Station mission is scheduled at Cape Canaveral.
Dark storm clouds and the threat of lightening are keeping space shuttle Discovery on the ground.
He also served on the Rogers Commission which investigated causes behind the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.
Hernandez will serve as Discovery's flight engineer for launch and landing, and will wield robotic arms on the shuttle and space station.
Mr. Stoller's big chance to perform on "Late Night With David Letterman" in 1986 came on the day the Challenger space shuttle exploded.
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