While many in Congress and the space community call for stability and continuity at NASA — no big changes like those imposed by President Obama — an exception is made for the prospect of restoring
lunar surface missions.
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.
Based on the calculations we've done, we can actually do
lunar surface missions, with no propellant production on the surface of the moon.
China will attempt to land the Chang» e 3 rover on the moon at year's end, the first
lunar surface mission since Russia's Luna 24 sample return lander in 1976.
Not exact matches
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.
The agency was looking for domestic vendors interested in, or capable of, developing commercial payload landing services for future
missions to the
lunar surface.
By the time the Apollo 11
mission was on the launchpad for its historic trip to the
lunar surface in July 1969, we may have figured out how to send a man to the moon, but we hadn't yet figured out how to send good food with him.
Although LRO would be forced to shut down its instruments for this eclipse, Petro said other
lunar eclipses are a great opportunity for the
mission to study how the
lunar surface cools during these events, giving insight into the materials making up the
surface.
NASA's
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission has been investigating the lunar surface since
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
mission has been investigating the
lunar surface since
lunar surface since 2009.
NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini
missions and the Indian probe Chandrayaan - 1 last year reported detecting a water film only a few molecules thick over large parts of the
lunar surface.
Four years ago, as GRAIL's two spacecraft neared the end of a 1 - year orbital
mission with a planned crash into the
lunar surface, they measured Orientale from a scant altitude of 2 kilometers.
UV images of the
lunar surface show patterns that correlate with the concentration of TiO2 measured in
lunar samples collected by the Apollo
missions, and so a map of the UV variations can be used to create a map of TiO2 abundance.
«We anticipate CATALYST will lead to delivery of payloads and
missions to the
lunar surface in the same way that commercial transport services to the space station have,» says Moon Express CEO Bob Richards.
In the summer of 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took humanity's first steps onto the
lunar surface during nasa's Apollo 11
mission.
Tiny beads of volcanic glass found on the
lunar surface during the Apollo
missions are a sign that fire fountain eruptions took place on the Moon's
surface.
Exquisite telescopic photographs of the
lunar surface had existed for decades before the Apollo
missions to the Moon, but they did not resolve the controversy of the origin of
lunar craters were they formed by meteorite impact or by volcanic eruption?
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.
But even though an Earthling has not set foot on the
lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972, samples brought back during that
mission continue to grace the science community with insights into the nature of Earth's satellite.
WHY: To analyze the
lunar surface and demonstrate new technologies, such as a laser - imaging system, for possible future manned
missions.
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.
«The gateway could move to support robotic or partner
missions to the
surface of the moon, or to a high
lunar orbit to support
missions departing from the gateway to other destinations in the solar system,» Gerstenmaier added.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Tiny beads of volcanic glass found on the
lunar surface during the Apollo
missions are a sign that fire fountain eruptions took place on the Moon's
surface.
«When I weigh the cost benefit of going back to the
lunar surface in a limited budget environment, and going to Mars, I would rather take what little money I have upfront and advance the technologies we're going to need» to do Mars
missions, he said.
These talks would be visually augmented by NASA
lunar imagery such as high - resolution photographs of the
lunar surface, the latest
lunar science visualizations, as well as by animations of current and future
lunar missions.
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.
NASA»S
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mis
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the
lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mis
lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's
Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mis
Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)
mission.
She also helped develop the Irvine - Michigan - Brookhaven detector to look for proton decay and neutrinos; detectors, hardware and software of the MACHO project to look for dark matter; detectors and software for the CLEMENTINE
mission to map the
lunar surface; the Gamma - Ray Optical Counterpart Search Experiment for observing gamma - ray bursts; and was a key member of the team that discovered the burst of neutrinos from Supernova 1987A.
Project Description: Science
Mission: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic mission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding envir
Mission: NASA's
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic mission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding environ
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic
mission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding envir
mission that is gathering high - resolution data about the
lunar surface and surrounding environ
lunar surface and surrounding environment.
Two years after placing its very first rover on the
surface of the moon, China has announced it would launch a
mission to return
lunar samples to Earth later this year.
The tests at Ames simulate a
mission in which astronauts parked at Earth - moon Lagrange point 2 — a gravitationally stable spot located about 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) above the moon's
surface — operate a rover on the
lunar farside.
During the Apollo
lunar missions between 1968 and 1972 all of those on board were given 16 mm cameras and asked to film everything they saw, in space and on the
surface of the moon.
Conceived of by artist Forrest Myers in 1969, the Moon Museum was established on the
lunar surface after works by six contemporary artists arrived with the Apollo 12
mission, the second moon landing.
However, the Diviner
mission has established that at the
lunar equator, the warmest part of the
surface, the mean temperature is just 206 K.