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 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 NASA, " To keep the sphere inflated in spite of meteorite punctures and skin permeability, a make-up gas system using evaporating liquid or crystals of a subliming solid were incorporated inside the satellite.

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 the original press release from Colangelo's group ( which remained posted on the team website during the first few seasons ) the chosen team colors were Arizona turquoise, copper, black and purple.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

According to a UK Film Council press release of 20 January 2011, £ 1. 115 billion was spent on UK film production during 2010.

According to a Cornell University press release from January 2009, the 2008 – 09 season will be the last Cornell-sponsored search, absent confirmation of the bird:

According to the press release, " The centre will comprise a 10MW light-water reactor working on 20 %- enriched uranium-235, an activation analysis laboratory, a medical isotope production laboratory, silicon doping system, nuclear waste treatment and burial facilities ".

According to both Roddenberry and an NBC press release, this was the justification for six additional episodes being ordered by the network for the series ' second season.

According to biographers, Harding got along better with the press than any other previous President, being a former newspaperman.

According to Gretzky himself, he always finished dead last in peripheral vision, flexibility and strength, and could only bench press.

According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida, on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve " the needs of those residing there ", and the company needed its own government to " clarify the District's authority to services within the District's limits " and because of the public nature of the planned development.

According to the CBS press release for Rawhide, Universal Studios ( then known as Universal-International ) was shooting in Fort Ord when an assistant noticed Eastwood and arranged for him to meet the series ' director.

According to the British press, an average glamour model can earn £ 10, 000.

According to the Bolivian press, Coca-Cola legally imported 204 tons of coca leaf in 1996.

According to press secretary George Christian, Johnson was unsurprised by the riots, saying: " What did you expect?

( According to The Guardian of 26 July 1991, Pik Botha told a press conference that the South African government had paid more than £ 20 million to at least seven political parties in Namibia to oppose SWAPO in the run-up to the 1989 elections.

According to a NATO press release, the agreement began the ratification process in 1992.

According to press reports his membership lapsed in 2006.

According to scholar Colin G. Crisp, " Anxiety about resuscitating the flow of silent films was frequently expressed in the industrial press, and a large section of the industry still saw the silent as a viable artistic and commercial prospect till about 1935.

According to the official web page of the navy one large and one small logistics ships are wanted but according to a press release ( 24 / 2009 ) from the Government one ship is planned.

According to the press note issued by the government, those companies will convert their first balance sheet as at April 1, 2011, applying accounting standards convergent with IFRS if the accounting year ends on March 31.

According to the " Best of the Rest " section of ESPN's Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame program, NBC television footage and press photos prove that no official rules ( Ryder Cup or PGA ) were broken when the Americans celebrated after Leonard's putt ( i. e. no one walked in or crossed Olazábal's putting line – although Europe player Sam Torrance has said in TV interviews that a TV cameraman stood on Olazábal's line while filming the invasion of the green by players and spectators ).

According to a press report in 2003, Adair was handed details of republican suspects by the Intelligence Corps, and was even invited for dinner with them in the early 1990s.

According to Deborah Blum in The Poisoner's Handbook ( p. 123 ), Midgley sought treatment for lead poisoning in Europe a few months after his demonstration at the press conference.

According to Reporters Without Borders, more than a third of the world's people live in countries where there is no press freedom.

According to a press release released by the company, site work had already begun and construction of the tower would be complete by 2014.