Sentences with phrase «for lunar missions»

The journey will start at the Kennedy Space Center's historic Pad 39A near Cape Canaveral, Florida — the same launch pad used by the Apollo program for its lunar missions.

If used only as a node for lunar missions, the L1 Earth - Moon LPR is inferior to the LOR mission mode.»

«Until recently the European Space Agency had plans for a lunar lander (which has since been scrapped) and the science case for Lunar Mission One is quite similar,» Ian Crawford, one of Lunar Mission One's principle scientific advisers, told BBC News.

Not exact matches

Cernan was the lunar module pilot for the Apollo 10 mission, the «dress rehearsal» that made it possible for the historic moon landing a few months later.

NASA says a lunar mission named Resource Prospector is set for 2018.

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

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

Our robotic spacecraft systems will collapse the cost of access to the Moon, introduce a new commercial paradigm for government missions, democratize lunar research and exploration, and blaze the trail for commercial space transportation and exploration beyond Earth's orbit.

The agency was looking for domestic vendors interested in, or capable of, developing commercial payload landing services for future missions to the lunar surface.

Experts appearing include Anjana Ahuja, science writer for The Times, Dr Kevin Fong, Co-Director of the Centre for Aviation Space, UCL Professor Gerard de Groot, author of Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent madness of the American Lunar Quest and Sima Adya, Space Missions Scientist.

The agency's controversial Asteroid Redirect Mission no longer calls for redirecting an asteroid into high lunar orbit

By the time the Apollo 11 mission was on the launchpad for its historic trip to the lunar surface in July 1969, we may have figured out how to send a man to the moon, but we hadn't yet figured out how to send good food with him.

He does not think that Soyuz will be ready for a lunar flyby anytime soon, and says that «without a significant increase in funding and drastic reforms within the industry, any manned lunar mission could not be achieved by 2025, in my opinion.»

NASA: The news was good for missions that would support the president's vision for eventual lunar and martian exploration by humans.

Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk of the Institute for the History of Science in Warsaw noted that another Kepler will retrace that sub - to supra - lunar trajectory next February, when NASA launches the Kepler mission, designed by modern dreamers to find Earth - like planets elsewhere in the Milky Way.

Although LRO would be forced to shut down its instruments for this eclipse, Petro said other lunar eclipses are a great opportunity for the mission to study how the lunar surface cools during these events, giving insight into the materials making up the surface.

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.

That includes President Bush, who in January 2004 unveiled an ambitious plan to return American astronauts to the moon by 2020 and to create a lunar base for future missions to Mars.

«This system is better equipped than the previous model for lunar projects with greater energy needs, such as a manned mission spending the night on the moon,» reports Gonzalez - Cinca.

Three recent missions have found an unexpectedly large supply of water on the moon that could both quench the thirst of future lunar dwellers and produce fuel for missions to other places in the solar system.

This flotilla of 21st - century moon explorers should arrive bristling with technologies that will help them map the moon's uncharted regions and prospect for resources that could one day sustain lunar outposts and missions further afield (see «The international lunar line - up «-RRB-.

As of now, the reason for the deposits is unknown, but the presence of oxygen in the lunar rock would make those sites attractive for future moon missions, even for human colonies, which could use the oxygen for breathing and as a rocket - fuel component.

If moon mining plans come to fruition, future lunar outposts could become rest stops for missions headed to Mars and beyond.

«But over time the making money part really dwindled, and it's become a mission,» a way to change the global standard of living with ubiquitous energy and access to resources such as raw minerals from asteroids, helium - 3 from the moon, or oxygen, water and other lunar materials for space - or Mars - based habitats.

Exquisite telescopic photographs of the lunar surface had existed for decades before the Apollo missions to the Moon, but they did not resolve the controversy of the origin of lunar craters were they formed by meteorite impact or by volcanic eruption?

A moon - orbiting asteroid would probably also be of interest to private companies proposing human missions to the lunar surface for scientific exploration and mining studies.

NASA missions planned for launch a year from now — the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)-- should provide a clearer picture, and India's Chandrayaan - 1 mission will carry a less sensitive radar system.

This is nicknamed LCROSS, or Lunar CROSS, and this is a mission that's intending to do something very similar to what we did for Deep Impact, but this time we're going for the moon.

He knows, having been involved in NASA lunar and planetary missions for more than four decades.

At 29, I designed a lunar mission to map out all the elements and look for water.

Both instruments returned far stronger evidence for lunar ice, a resource whose presence the LCROSS impact mission eventually confirmed.

«What we're doing is a proof of concept: that this can be done, and for less than the government would pay for the same kind of mission,» says Fred Bourgeois, head of Team Frednet, a Lunar X Prize competitor based in California.

WHY: To analyze the lunar surface and demonstrate new technologies, such as a laser - imaging system, for possible future manned missions.

The bridge mission could be anything from NASA's ambitious plan to capture an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit where astronauts could explore it, to a small and temporary station where astronauts can learn a little more about fending for themselves while in space.

NASA is salvaging technology developed under a canceled asteroid rendezvous and relocation mission for a new initiative to build a lunar orbiting base.

For the last few years, the agency's envisioned «Journey to Mars» campaign has included the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), an effort to pluck a boulder from a near - Earth asteroid and drag the rock to lunar orbit, where it could be visited by astronauts aboard Orion.

The «Groovy Galilean Satellites» session at last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) covered the moons from a wide range of angles: analysis of past mission data, testable hypotheses for future missions, and discussion of the use of ground - based data.

She also helped develop the Irvine - Michigan - Brookhaven detector to look for proton decay and neutrinos; detectors, hardware and software of the MACHO project to look for dark matter; detectors and software for the CLEMENTINE mission to map the lunar surface; the Gamma - Ray Optical Counterpart Search Experiment for observing gamma - ray bursts; and was a key member of the team that discovered the burst of neutrinos from Supernova 1987A.

While many in Congress and the space community call for stability and continuity at NASA — no big changes like those imposed by President Obama — an exception is made for the prospect of restoring lunar surface missions.

MSSS also built the suite of high resolution cameras aboard the 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and has delivered four science cameras for the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover mission and one for the 2011 Juno Mission to Jmission and one for the 2011 Juno Mission to JMission to Jupiter.

The project's backers hope that this will help kickstart a new era in lunar exploration, while creating a legacy for the way space missions are funded.

«The twofer that you would get out of this for science is pretty exciting,» said Jack Burns, director of the Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, which developed the mission concept.

In 2004, MSSS was selected to provide three camera systems (four total cameras) for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover and three cameras for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission.

To raise money for the project, the Lunar Mission One, is asking people to contribute «digital memory boxes» which would be placed in the hole, as a type of time capsule.

This occurred when he was the 1971 Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission.

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.

Sachs is perhaps best known for his ongoing interest in examining the history, aesthetics, and legacy of the space program, particularly the Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s.

For its inaugural presentation at the Dallas Art Fair the Jason Jacques Gallery will present a curated selection of contemporary ceramic art juxtaposed with rare black - and - white photographs from NASA's famous lunar orbiter missions in the 1960s.

The tapes from the Lunar Orbiter missions were primarily used to locate landing sites for the manned Apollo missions, and once those missions were over, the data was largely forgotten.

The ocean biology scientists who were present suggested development of a dedicated ocean biology sensor and mission to accommodate the need for lunar calibration, building on the approach taken by the SeaWiFS instrument.