you could just
do planetary missions, solo - flash points (mandalorian raiders would be perfect for the dark side achievements.)
Not exact matches
«There's a perception that Venus is a very difficult place to have a
mission,» says
planetary scientist Darby Dyar of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. «Everybody knows about the high pressures and temperatures on Venus, so people think we don't have technology to survive that.
During the first few years she cut her teeth on experimental lab work and informational control and design as a robotic engineer, but what she really wanted to
do was work directly on
planetary missions.
Astrophysicist Fred Espenak of the Goddard Space Flight Center speaks for many of his colleagues: «With the current state of technology,
planetary science can be
done much more inexpensively with robot
missions than with manned ones.»
How
did risk factor into your selection of Psyche and Lucy, two
missions to asteroids, as the next Discovery
missions in
planetary science?
The dream of many a
planetary scientist is a sample - return
mission, bringing back a piece of another world, comet, or asteroid for study, as the Apollo
missions did for the moon.
Missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Cosmic Background Explorer are all answering some of the fundamental questions in astrophysics, cosmology and
planetary science: how
did the Solar System form?
A landing on Europa is «not an easy thing to achieve, primarily because we don't really know what the surface is like on the meter and submeter scale,» says Ronald Greeley, an Arizona State University
planetary geologist and co-chair of NASA's science definition team for the Europa
mission.
NASA may have to draw money from other Mars
missions as well as the agency's larger
planetary exploration programme to pay for the MSL delays, but
did not specify which projects would be affected.
The notion of the Red Dragon
missions «has generated a lot of interest, but we don't know a lot yet,» says Jeffrey Johnson, a
planetary geologist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and chair of a NASA Mars analysis committee.
It really made me feel like they just want to spend money on design and fabricate some test vehicles but not launch them because # 1 it to expensive and # 2 they really don't know where to go or than an asteroid
mission because
Planetary Resources really doesn't want to spend their own money on R&D... Considering the events in the Ukraine and Iran... The world may end before the SLS / Orion goes anywhere other LEO or maybe just maybe to the Moon!!!
Bill Nye: Well, talking some more about me, I'm the CEO of The
Planetary Society so what I have encouraged the staff to
do is focus on our
mission.
Killing enemies and completing story
missions is the easiest way to
do this, and if you're stuck, complete the game's many
planetary activities (such as Lost Sectors, Public Events) until it goes up.
It
does that every time a player finishes one of the particular
planetary story
missions.
But if we can embrace this
mission now with reverence and respect for our home, we
do have a chance — not only to get through the time of
planetary peril and fragmentation, but to come out of the crisis a wiser species than the one that created it.