Sentences with phrase «future lunar missions»

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.

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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.