Sentences with phrase «day duration of his mission»

Spending nearly a year in space, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his mission.

Not exact matches

> The ideal mission timeline runs as follows: 200 days from Earth to Mars, 571 days in Mars orbit and on the surface, and 207 days from Mars back to Earth, for a total duration of just over 2 and a half years.

Such a mission puts long - duration exploration through its paces with the safety of Earth just a few days away.

Inspiration Mars» concept for the 2018 Mars flyby mission proposal, with a total duration of 501 days.

Best of all, human missions are virtually guaranteed to last much longer than current rover missions: while the minimum duration for the Mars rovers to be considered a success was 90 days, a successful human mission — i.e. one which returned the astronauts to earth — would take 910 days (roughly 2.5 years), with 550 of those days (about 1.5 years) spent on the surface of Mars.