According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft ; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

According to NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill, duct tape had been stowed on board every mission since early in the Gemini days.

According to a NASA press release, APOLLO researcher Tom Murphy said, " We got about 2, 000 photons from Lunokhod 1 on our first try.

According to a theory by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Zdeněk Sekanina, the latest impactor to actually make contact with the Sun was the " supercomet " Howard-Koomen-Michels on August 30, 1979.

According to NASA: " An investigation board concluded that the most likely cause of the mishap was structural failure of the spacecraft due to plume heating during the solid-rocket motor burn.

According to NASA, " the concept of accessing a significant amount of useful energy from the ZPE gained much credibility when a major article on this topic was recently 1st, 2004 published in Aviation Week & Space Technology, a leading aerospace industry magazine ".

According to NASA, it was in part because of the excitement over McAuliffe's presence on Challenger that the accident had such a significant effect on the nation.

According to Bean, Conrad's instructions were that NASA light the all the trees but one every Christmas season with white lights — but in keeping with his motto, Conrad's tree would have colored lights.

According to NASA, the hardware was very poorly designed, and failed to complete any acceptance tests at AMES.

According to trial testimony in 2006, Dr. Saeed advised Rusty, a former NASA engineer, not to leave his patient unattended.

According to the NASA ADS database, the total number of citations is 1416, and the number of citations with self-citations excluded, is equal to 831.

According to the NASA report Results of the Third Saturn 1 Launch Vehicle Test Flight, SA-3 aimed to test four areas: the booster, the ground support equipment, the vehicle in flight, and Project Highwater.

According to NASA, the answer to the question, " Why should we return to the Moon ?," would be to:

" According to Griffin, NASA spending has declined approximately 20 % since 1993.

According to NASA, the gap fillers, which each serve different purposes, are not required for reentry.

According to the 2007 Presidential Budget for NASA, the program is, " a coherent series of increasingly challenging projects, each complementary to the others and each mission building on the results and capabilities of those that preceded it as NASA searches for habitable planets outside of the solar system.

According to Easterbrook, the billions of dollars that a lunar colony might cost should instead be devoted to environmental research on the Earth ; reducing the costs of access to space ; exploring the solar system with space probes ; space observatories ; and protecting the Earth from near-Earth asteroids, priorities that he repeated in a 2007 Wired article, " How NASA Screwed Up ( And Four Ways to Fix It )".

According to a NASA press release in January 2010, Grunsfeld indicated he would be leaving the agency to begin work as deputy director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore where he will also help preparing the institute for operations with NASA's planned James Webb Space Telescope.

According to then-NASA chief Sean O ' Keefe, that spending bill “ was as strong an endorsement of the space exploration vision, as any of us could have imagined .” In 2005, Congress passed S. 1281, the NASA Authorization Act of 2005, which explicitly endorses the Vision.

According to NASA, the satellite's debris field would extend between positions and downrange, generally northeast of this position.

According to a NASA internal report, space shuttle " wires were coated with an insulator known as Kapton that tended to break down over time, causing short circuits and, potentially, fires.

According to Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell of NASA, the solar bow shock may lie at around 230 AU from the Sun.

According to NASA, the Roentgensatellit ( ROSAT ) was a joint German, US and British X-ray astrophysics project.

According to Lillie McGarvey, a 20th-century Aleut leader, barabaras keep " occupants dry from the frequent rains, warm at all times, and snugly sheltered from the high winds common to the area ".

According to Carrom rules, the powder must be of high quality to keep the surface smooth and dry, and shall not be wet.

According to a report in Nature magazine, ( November, 2009 ) the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era, and the first time scientists have actually measured it, suggests " the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions — a finding with potentially wide implications for future climate.

According to Steven Levy, IBM Watson researchers discovered differential cryptanalytic attacks in 1974 and were asked by the NSA to keep the technique secret.

According to Tacitus, Mucianus was not keen on this prospect but since he considered Domitian a liability in any capacity that was entrusted to him, he preferred to keep him close at hand rather than in Rome.

According to the chapter heading, the book covers the time period between ca 420 BC and 361 BC and describes the efforts of the Nephite prophets to " keep them Nephites in the way of truth ".

According to the Central Bank of Somalia, about 80 % of the population are nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists, who keep goats, sheep, camels and cattle.

According to Miss Tarter, in 2012 it costs around "$ 2 million a year to keep SETI research going at the SETI Institute " and approximately 10 times that to support " all kinds of SETI activity around the world.

According to the Admiralty regulations, " no person shall be appointed to any station in which he is to have charge of stores, unless he can read and write, and is sufficiently skilled in arithmetic to keep an account of them correctly ".

According to SWIFT's public information database on the subject, RMA software should eventually prove more secure and easier to keep up-to-date ; however, converting to the RMA system meant that thousands of banks around the world had to update their international payments systems to comply with the new standards.

According to Irenaeus, the Judaistic Ebionites charged less than one hundred years after the Apostles that the Christians overruled the authority of Scripture by failing to keep the Mosaic Law ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ).

According to his autobiographical writings Asimov included the First Law's " inaction " clause because of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem " The Latest Decalogue ", which includes the satirical lines " Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive ".

According to the proposal outlined by CPC General secretary and President Jiang Zemin in 1995, Taiwan would lose sovereignty and the right to self-determination, but would be permitted to keep its armed forces and to send a representative to be the " number two leader " in the PRC central government.

According to contemporary sources he intended to keep authority in his own hands, rather than those of the young Empress.

According to fellow mobster Michael DiLeonardo, initiated in the same night, Gravano held the ceremony to keep Gotti from being accused of nepotism.

According to Mark Crispin Miller, Graceland became for Presley " the home of the organization that was himself, was tended by a large vague clan of Presleys and deputy Presleys, each squandering the vast gratuities which Elvis used to keep his whole world smiling.

According to Prof. Gherardo Gnoli :’’ Iranian tribes that also keep on recurring in the Yasht, Airyas, Tuiryas, Sairimas, Sainus and Dahis ’’.

According to the Fourth Branch, Arianrhod's uncle Math fab Mathonwy would die if he did not keep his feet in the lap of a virgin when he was not at war.

According to a study published in the scientific journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, doodling can aid a person's memory by expending just enough energy to keep one from daydreaming, which demands a lot of the brain's processing power, as well as from not paying attention.

According to a study conducted by John Bogle over a sixteen-year period, investors get to keep only 47 % of the cumulative return of the average actively managed mutual fund, but they keep 87 % in a market index fund.

According to a 1999 Lake Villa and Lindenhurst Review article, Village Administrator James Stevens said Lindenhurst “ has been able to keep the small town flavor, in large part, through selective land annexation, and by carefully choosing developers for high quality but diversified housing types, including single family, town homes and condominiums.

According to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, doing jigsaw puzzles is one of many activities that can help keep the brain active and may contribute to reducing the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

( According to them, the asylum's walls are meant to keep the * real * mad people * outside *, while the inmates stay inside and safe.

According to the book The Ring: Boxing The 20th Century, this affected McGuigan so much that he wasn't sure he wanted to keep on boxing.