Sentences with phrase «crew left the surface»
NASA's human spaceflight program has been in a state of uncertainty pretty much from the moment the Apollo 17 crew left the surface of the Moon 45 years ago this month.
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Once the Mark 48 strikes, it's game over and the enemy ship's crew, or at least whoever is left of them, will have just minutes to evacuate before their boat makes its way below the surface to Davy Jones» locker.
One idea would be to reduce the crew size from four to the three of the Apollo days, with the idea that on the Outpost - type fortnight - or - more span expeditions, we'll be able to send the whole crew down to the surface, leaving the Orion (or whichever) orbiter craft, untended in low lunar orbit, to be reached by the crew later.
Paul Van Hoeydonck's Fallen Astronaut was delivered by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971 (see p. 43) and Warhol's stylized signature — which resembles a rocket — figures with drawings by Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg and Forrest Myers on the Moon Museum; this tiny ceramic chip was allegedly smuggled by a NASA engineer on to the landing module of Apollo 12's lunar lander, Intrepid, in 1969, which was left on the lunar surface.