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 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 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 one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

According to the study, more than nine out of 10 consumers are familiar with and have tried these foods, and about half report eating them frequently.

According to the European Music Office's report on Music in Europe, this was the first of many pop acts that helped inspire a backlash and the creation of an underground hip hop scene.

According to the report, the bunyip had been speared after killing an Aboriginal man.

According to a report in the Cork Examiner, the Continuity IRA's first chief of staff was Dáithí Ó Conaill, who also served as the first chairman of RSF from 1986 to 1987.

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 the National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA report, " All sheep and lamb inventory in the United States on July 1, 2005, totaled 7. 80 million head, 2 % above July 1, 2004.

According to his biography, A Life Decoded, he was said to never be a terribly engaged student, having Cs and Ds on his eighth-grade report cards.

According to Casement's report, indiscriminate " war ", starvation, reduction of births and tropical diseases caused the country's depopulation.

According to a 1999 International Monetary Fund report, remittances from Dominican Americans, are estimated to be about $ 1. 5 billion per year.

According to a report in the British Medical Journal, use of DDT in Mozambique " was stopped several decades ago, because 80 % of the country's health budget came from donor funds, and donors refused to allow the use of DDT.

According to one American report, Mubarak views Iran as the primary long-term challenge facing Egypt, and an Egyptian official said that Iran is running agents inside Egypt in an effort to subvert the Egyptian regime.

According to a recent United Nations report, more than 84 percent of Eritreans who have sought asylum around the world have been recognized as refugees deserving asylum status.

According to the US Department of State 2009 human rights report there are hundreds of political prisoners in Ethiopia.

According to a 2003 report in the New York Post, the Britannica management has eliminated employee 401 ( k ) accounts and encouraged the use of free images.

According to a UN report in 2007, Afghanistan has received over $ 3. 3 billion from its expatriate community in 2006.

According to Lewnes ' UNICEF report, it is unknown how many girls and women die from the procedure because " few records are kept " and fatalities caused by FGM " are rarely reported as such ".

According to the report:

According to Milliyet, an associate of Yilmaz ’ s, Kutlu Savas, compiled a 12-page report that detailed the actions of Turkish agents in Greece.

According to a 2005 report issued by the university, enrollment is expected to reach 35, 000 students by 2011 with more than 7, 000 resident students.

According to the article cited, the still classified NSA report is incorrect based on the CIA documents that were declassified which show that Powers ' account of being shot down at altitude was accurate.

According to a World Bank report in 2006, " In Haiti, the process of business regulations is complex and customs procedures are lengthy.

According to a 55-page report by the United Nations, the Taliban, while trying to consolidate control over northern and western Afghanistan, committed systematic massacres against civilians.