Sentences with phrase «lunar base»

For a permanent lunar base, such mechanical failures could spell disaster.

Along with rumours of a hovering lunar base, there are reports that the agency is considering a proposal to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit.

WHY: To study the moon's interior and look for mineral resources, with the ultimate goal of establishing a fully robotic lunar base.

• Continue with the current plan, which aims to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 and eventually build a permanent lunar base.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's visionary plan slates an independent manned space mission and establishment of an international lunar base by 2025.

That would enable the creation of Moon Base Alpha, or some sort of lunar base.

We also got this pretty wide shot of the SHIELD Lunar Base, with the moon clearly visible in the background.

Or in October, when NASA officially opened its second permanent lunar base with a live BrainSync between honorary Moon President Neil deGrasse Tyson and a select group of fans who won the chance to access portions of his long - term memory through a QuantumWeb sweepstakes?

Players take control of Major Kane of the Extra Terrestrial Encounter Organization, who has been summoned to the newly established Lunar Base Alpha to investigate what has been described as a sealed hatch embedded in the surface of the moon.

It's a story - driven title in which you are attempting to uncover what happened at the now - deserted lunar base.

Below, we can also see what looks to be a subterranean tram, possibly the opening cutscene taking you and your opponent to the SHIELD Lunar Base.

By coincidence, the south polar region of the moon - a 1,500 - mile - wide depression known as the Aitken Basin - is where the first permanent lunar base is most likely to be built.

I mean, we should have a lunar base by now.

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.

Since the Jewish calendar is lunar based, every year the first day of Hanukkah falls on a different day — usually sometime between late November and late December.

«My concern is we go back to the moon, start building a lunar base, and because of funding problems — which there will be — we'll decide that going to Mars is noble but we can't afford it,» says former shuttle commander Bolden.

Chastised and inspired by an investigative report on the shuttle Columbia accident that bluntly described a failure in leadership for manned space exploration, Bush called on NASA to begin developing the space vehicles to carry astronauts back to the moon by 2020, then build a lunar base, and finally send a crew to Mars.

These ramping - up missions will include the building of a lunar base and scientific projects like the construction of a telescope on the moon's south pole.

He quickly adds that he now supports the NASA party line: It is prudent to work out any kinks in the new systems within rescuable distance of Earth, a lunar base will provide experience with surviving in an alien environment, and there's plenty of great science still to be done on the moon.

«Had we pressed on with the Saturn V, we could have had a lunar base by 1975,» says Paul Lowman, a geophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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.

Regardless, the simple fact that hydrogen — and oxygen — in some form are on the moon makes a lunar base a simpler proposition.

«This will enable the creation of a lunar base.

It's 2017 — we should have a lunar base by now,» Musk said.

University of Notre Dame planetary geologist Clive Neal says that a lunar base would be invaluable for studying the effects of reduced gravity on astronauts» health.

It's not clear yet how much building a lunar base might cost, or the extent to which resource extraction might help to cover the expense.

Combine the two and you have Routine, a first - person exploration game set aboard a lunar base where something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.

The first day of Hanukkah falls on a different day each year because the Jewish calendar is lunar based.

Lunar lava tubes form a potentially important location for constructing a future lunar base, which may be used for local exploration and development, or as a human outpost to serve exploration beyond the Moon.

It's also possible this is a subterranean part of the Lunar Base level, revealing that with destructibility may also come the ability shift to different zones of each arena.

Because the whole floor of the Lunar Base looks to be falling out, possibly leading to the subterranean area shown in the Lunar Base screenshot above.

A lunar based telescope system would greatly assist in cataloging objects that cross earth's orbit.