Human exploration refers to the act of humans venturing out to unfamiliar places and investigating or discovering new things. It involves people going beyond what is known, whether it be exploring new lands, investigating outer space, or discovering uncharted territory. It is all about humans seeking knowledge and expanding our understanding of the world and beyond.
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But it also saw some breakthroughs that may foster future missions for
human exploration of the cosmos.
These sculptures envision another aspect of humanity's future: a fleet of spacecraft designed
for human exploration of distant worlds.
Those containing water or other valuable materials may act as stepping stones
for human exploration of the solar system.
Human exploration of space requires astronauts to maintain consistently high levels of cognitive performance to ensure mission safety and success, and prevent potential errors and accidents.
Some members of Congress, however, advocate a return to the moon as the next step
in human exploration for NASA.
Even as the Obama administration is turning its back
on human exploration of the moon, a small but persistent group of entrepreneurs are pursuing their own plans to embrace it.
We do not argue that the search for non-terrestrial technology should be given priority over other astronomical missions; however,
as human exploration into the Solar System continues, we may as well keep our eyes open for ETI technology, just in case.
Brooks, who represents Marshall Space Flight Center, contended that more money is needed to
support human exploration because, since the end of the space shuttle program, America has had to «hitch a ride» with the Russians to the International Space Station (ISS) and thus lost its preeminence.
Ironically, however, the very evidence of possible habitability that
makes human exploration more appealing also makes it more fraught.
Investigating how space radiation affects astronauts and learning ways to mitigate those effects are critical to
further human exploration of space, and NASA needs to consider these risks as it plans for missions to Mars and beyond.
In addition to these technologies, STMD is partnering with NASA's
Human Exploration Operations Mission Directorate and the Science Mission Directorate to solicit Mars 2020 payloads responsive to NASA's Strategic Knowledge Gaps.
If NASA is serious
about human exploration of Mars, then science measurements from a NeMO are essential, says Alfred McEwen, director of the Planetary Image Research Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson and principal investigator of MRO's HiRISE.
CU Denver seniors are feeling victorious after finishing second at the
NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge in Huntsville, Ala..
But while the lunar timeline and the Ares program are under scrutiny by a blue - ribbon panel of independent experts convened by the White House, the robotic precursor to
human exploration continues apace.
A group of CBC High School Academy students brought a rover they built to the Huntsville, AL, to compete in NASA's
Human Exploration Rover Challenge.
Within NASA's
human exploration division, the committee has questions and concerns about the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM)-- a planned deep space mission to visit an asteroid and bring it closer to Earth.
NASA officials stress that President Obama directed the agency to develop a plan to send humans to the vicinity of Mars in the 2030s and thus a plan in needed that addresses not only science but
human exploration requirements.
He disagrees with Fairén's assumption that contamination from robots won't spread, but that it would
from human exploration.
Ed Stone is the kind of guy who can glimpse the outer limits of
human exploration just by looking at a water faucet.
And any funds allocated to NeMO from the NASA budget must contend against other wish list items such as a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to search for life, not to
mention human exploration of the moon or Mars.
«We would use the moon as a platform for astronomy and to study the space environment,» says Wendell Mendell, manager of NASA's Office for
Human Exploration Science in Houston.
Second, a high - resolution imager to replace the MRO's High - Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) will be crucial to select safe and appealing landing sites for future scientific and
human exploration landings.
The InSight mission will take the planet's temperature — and help prepare for eventual human exploration
«I'm convinced that a robotic sample return is the single biggest step that we as planetary scientists could take to
foster human exploration of Mars,» says planetary scientist and former NASA associate administrator Alan Stern.
NASA is exploiting that ability
with Human Exploration Telerobotics, a project that lets astronauts «inhabit» robots in locations that are fatal or inaccessible.
More than 30 years of my own observations, along with results from public opinion surveys over at least as many years, indicate that the community of
American human exploration advocates is predominantly white and male.
It could send back real - time nightly imagery so that you could, for example, sit with your kids at the television and be a witness to the
first human exploration and reconnaissance of Valles Marinaris, then take those roving eyes and send them across the surface to the poles.
By contrast, proponents of
human exploration invoke a more romantic argument: the human spirit's desire to tread new land, see new sights or climb virgin peaks, simply «because they are...
According to the IAU, the new names
honor human exploration, travelers, explorers and scientists, pioneering journeys, and mysterious destinations taken from history, literature, and mythology.
«In the days of the Apollo program,
human exploration systems employed expendable, single - use vehicles requiring large ground crews and careful monitoring.
They seek to
assist human exploration and the discovery of beneficial resources, whether in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), on the moon, in deep space or on Mars.
Capturing and moving an asteroid integrates the best of our science, technology and
human exploration operations and draws on the innovation of America's brightest scientists and engineers.»
Tornabene L. L. et al. (2012) Utility of remote sensing, robotic precursor data & a focused science hypothesis for a follow - on
human exploration lunar analogue mission at the Mistastin Lake (Kamestastin) impact structure, 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 19 - 23, 2012 in The Woodlands, Texas.
It would exhibit a great vanity for any country to
undertake human exploration of Mars alone, particularly when others, who may not now have the required magnitude of capability or financial resources, do have the underlying technological knowhow.
«I think that the future of exploration is such that you'll have to have both humans and robots working together,» said Terry Fong,
human exploration telerobotics project manager and director of the Intelligent Robotics Group at Ames, which designed and manages the tests.
Through a series of significant artist residencies and personal travels, a critical number of regional artists have investigated our Polar regions, with many reflecting on the motivations for
human exploration at the ends of the habitable landscape.
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