Sentences with phrase «first lunar mission»

The new moon: Blue shows water, red indicates an iron - based mineral, and green shows reflectivity in an image from India's first lunar mission.

Bezos wrote that Blue Origin could facilitate its first lunar mission as early as July 2020, but not without stressing that such an endeavor can only be achieved with NASA's help.

Not exact matches

Its next moon mission: to return a lunar soil sample in 2017; if it succeeds, it will be the first collected since the last Apollo missions in the 1970s.

A startup is close to securing the approval of federal authorities for its first private lunar mission.

Which means the Dragon 2 lunar mission will occur hot off the heels of SpaceX's first human mission into space.

It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

In our podcast's inaugural episode, Commercial Lunar Ambitions, Chad interviews John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic — one of the most influential leaders in the entrepreneurial space sector, and who is currently planning the world's first commercial mission to the Moon in 2019.

Four decades after mankind's giant leap, a look at the harrowing first lunar landing, the Apollo missions that never flew, and how the historic event looked from the Soviet Union

The country's first lunar forays — orbiters launched in 2007 and 2010 — were more engineering demonstrations than scientific missions, but that changed with the first lander, Chang «e-3.

Its lunar exploration program is also increasingly science - driven, with a sample return mission scheduled for next year and the first ever landing on the far side of the moon planned for 2018.

Yet in November 1969, only months after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became history's first moonwalkers, Conrad left his own tracks in the lunar dust, as commander of the Apollo 12 mission.

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.

Lunar Prospector, which was launched on January 6 as part of NASA's low budget Discovery program to study the composition of the moon, has apparently put doubts to rest in the first weeks of its planned two - year mission.

«NASA has been experiencing loss of astromaterials since lunar samples were first returned by Apollo missions,» inspector general Paul K. Martin detailed in the report.

«The full success of our country's first lunar exploration mission is helping to turn the Chinese nation's 1000 - year old dream of reaching the Moon a reality,» Wen said.

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future missions to 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.

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.

REACHING FOR THE STARS Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing by Dean Robbins is the thrilling story of the woman who made the Apollo 11 mission possible.

In 2019, the David Guiraud Gallery is going to present a major exhibition on NASA's Lunar Orbiter, Gemini and Apollo missions that put the first man on the Moon.