Sentences with phrase «into orbit around the moon»

Forty years ago, in December of the troubled year of 1968, astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders piloted the Apollo 8 spacecraft into orbit around the moon, the first humans ever to circle any globe but our own.

The idea is to capture a small asteroid, bring it into orbit around the moon using SEP, and then send astronauts to explore it — a daring and politically contentious concept called the Asteroid Redirect Mission.

NASA currently envisions the first two SLS flights, EM - 1 and 2, as part of the agency's Asteroid Initiative mission proposal, which aims to robotically redirect a small Near - Earth Asteroid into orbit around the Moon by the end of the decade, to be later visited by human crews.

Not exact matches

The spacecraft then will attempt to redirect the object into a stable orbit around the moon.

Chandrayaan 1 entered into an elliptical orbit around the moon on Saturday, 17 days after blasting off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.

NASA is assessing two concepts to robotically capture and redirect an asteroid mass into a stable orbit around the moon.

Normally, to maintain a simple circular orbit around an object, a rocket needs to find an exact balance between its tendency to fly outward into space and its inward attraction toward the moon or planet it circles.

Entering orbit around the ringed world, the spacecraft will drop a probe into the atmosphere of Titan, a Mercury - size moon cloaked in an opaque organic haze and possibly covered with hydrocarbon seas.

You know, for instance around Earth, you can think of gravity as forming a kind of a well around Earth, which causes the things that pass near Earth, the moon I would say, which is orbiting on its path, to stay within the vicinity because it falls into that gravity well, metaphorically speaking; and in likewise the same way this astronaut that is fictitiously described by our good mathematics professor takes a journey through curved spacetime.

ESA's probe would settle into orbit around Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system and the only one known to make its own magnetic field.

Now, new research in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests that an ancient collision could have sent a ring of debris containing at least 100 small moons into orbit around the Red Planet, which eventually coalesced into Phobos and Deimos — Mars's two current moons.

The initiative also involves getting the spacecraft to redirect the object into a stable orbit around the moon.

Enceladus also gets kneaded as it travels around Saturn, but a larger moon named Dione throws a wrench into the works, making its orbit slightly eccentric.

Large collisions between celestial objects can generate moons when material is splashed into orbit around the larger object and coalesces into one or more moons under its own gravity.

After ejection, the moon could either have crashed into another Solar System object (like a neighboring gas giant) or been sent into an elongated orbit around the Sun like a comet or into interstellar space (Boué and Laskar, 2009; and Ker Than, New Scientist, December 4, 2009).

The programmes for the new season are themed «MISSION MOON ℠» and «INTO ORBIT ℠» to help build students» curiosity around space exploration and scientific discovery while developing their skills and experience in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

More than 350,000 children around the world will participate in the MISSION MOON ℠ and INTO ORBIT ℠ Challenges, using new sets developed by FIRST and LEGO Education.

The programs for the new season are themed «MISSION MOON ℠» and «INTO ORBIT ℠» to help build students» curiosity around space exploration and scientific discovery while developing their skills and experience in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

There is also a much - anticipated trip around the moon on the books, as well as a mission that seeks to blast Musk's cherry red Tesla into orbit.