Sentences with phrase «human lunar surface»
The speakers were Ryan Whitley (NASA HQ) and Markus Landgraf (ESA ESTEC) who presented «International Human Lunar Surface Scenario.»
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A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.
A market for lunar services is already emerging and while some companies are focused on developing longer - term plans to return humans to the lunar surface, there are also many companies with nearer - term needs for lunar services.
This experiment was just one part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), the only comprehensive set of moon - based studies humans have ever conducted.
In the 2020s, NASA's human spaceflight program will revolve around sending astronauts to high lunar orbit to study a small boulder robotically plucked from the surface of a large asteroid, agency officials announced yesterday.
A moon - orbiting asteroid would probably also be of interest to private companies proposing human missions to the lunar surface for scientific exploration and mining studies.
He hopes people will pay to deliver things to the dusty lunar surface and expects consignments of plants and even human remains.
The development of ever more sensitive microscopy and chemical - analysis techniques will continue to produce new insights from existing samples into the foreseeable future — good news, considering that no nation appears to be close to returning humans to the lunar surface.
Humans have not set foot on the moon since December 14, 1972, when astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission departed the lunar surface to return home.
It will «tell the story of human exploration of the moon» from the Apollo program through modern - day missions designed to study the lunar surface, the museum added.
Obama and Congress agreed that the long term goal is landing humans on Mars, but not on whether lunar surface missions are a necessary prerequisite.
He was an outspoken advocate for returning humans to the lunar surface.
When Optimus Prime (voice of Peter Cullen) travels to the lunar surface to bring back his former leader, Sentinel Prime (Leonard Nimoy), with several «space bridge» pillars, a plan is fomented that may bring the robots back to the brink of war again — with the measly humans once again caught in the middle.
The engineering challenge of sending humans to orbit or to the lunar surface is largely dealing with the problem of lack of available rocket fuel in space.