Sentences with phrase «exploration by astronauts»
In parallel, NASA is developing an Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM)-- a first - ever mission to identify, capture and redirect an asteroid to a safe orbit of Earth's moon for future exploration by astronauts in the 2020s.
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The next step for human space exploration after the International Space Station is to send astronauts on a Near Earth Asteroid by 2025, as planned by NASA.
By adapting ideas from robotic planetary exploration, the human space program could get astronauts to asteroids and Mars cheaply and quickly
«Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration,» SpaceX representativessaid in the statement.
In sharp contrast to Mars One's grand vision of a settlement on another planet, the B612 Foundation has a contained, far more focused conception of private space exploration — not surprising, since it was started by two former NASA astronauts, Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart.
«Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration,» announced SpaceX.
NASA Associate Administrators for Human Exploration and Operations (Bill Gerstenmaier) and Space Technology (Steve Jurczyk) will be joined at the witness table by former astronaut Franklin Chang - Diaz (of VASIMR engine fame), Mitchell Walker representing the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Joe Cassady from Aerojet Rocketdyne, and Anthony Pancotti of MSNW LLC, which is developing the NASA - funded Electrodeless Lorentz Force (ELF - 250) thruster and the ElectroMagnetic Plasmoid Thruster (EMPT).
Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration.
Stepping away from VR was a challenge, but just two of the new games worth watching out for in reality were Dreams by Media Molecule, an incredible game / creative tool that allows players to make environments, characters and animations, play with them and share online and Astroneer by System Era, a beautiful planet exploration game with you as an astronaut armed with the ability to instantly terraform the landscape around them.
The artist's charged visual language — rooted in an exploration of identity and geography, two concepts she considers fluid — includes figures with the head of a tiger and the body of a woman, or others whose faces are obscured by astronaut's helmets, as they float, untethered, in space.
The applications for 3D printing in space are endless and could drive space exploration by allowing on - demand manufacturing of objects like tools and habitats needed for human missions, housing and laboratories could be built by robots using printed building blocks that take advantage of available soils and minerals and astronauts on long - duration space missions also could print and recycle tools as they are needed, saving mass, volume and resources.