These talks would be visually augmented by NASA lunar imagery such as high - resolution photographs of the lunar surface, the latest lunar science visualizations, as well as by animations of current and
future lunar missions.
Not exact matches
One of the big limiting factors in plaguing
future space
missions is lifting off from Earth with all the supplies, fuel, spacecraft and equipment humans would need to establish a permanent
lunar base or field a Mars
mission.
The agency was looking for domestic vendors interested in, or capable of, developing commercial payload landing services for
future missions to the
lunar surface.
She and other US scientists, in a collaboration known as the
Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, have been churning out studies on how
future missions might answer key science questions.
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.
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.
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.
Kring says that even given the uncertainties in the
future of manned spaceflight in the U.S., the
lunar orbiter is a
mission whose time has come.
WHY: To analyze the
lunar surface and demonstrate new technologies, such as a laser - imaging system, for possible
future manned
missions.
Having successfully demonstrated that radar can be used to detect and track spacecraft in
lunar orbit, the researchers now intend to use these arrays as a hazard assessment tool in
future manned and unmanned
missions to the moon.
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.
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.