Sentences with phrase «lunar dust»

We will be up to our ankles in lunar dust for the first time in nearly 50 years.

Oh, If only arrows could reach the moon then they could shoot it down and rub lunar dust on their bodies and hit one another in the head with moon rocks.

However, trace fossils won't always be as easy to identify as footprints in lunar dust.

Our third expedition will bring back samples of lunar dust and rocks that everyone can own, providing scientists with a new source of lunar materials for research, and making these treasures from the Moon available to collectors and commercial purposes.

The first signs of flying lunar dust came during the Apollo 17 mission.

They want to find out if contour - crafting technology could erect buildings on the moon from lunar dust.

After completing the first moon landing in 1969, Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific, scattering lunar dust.

But after the first landing by Apollo 11 in 1969, US president Richard Nixon presented lunar dust embedded on plaques to 135 nations, US states, and territories.

That's a challenge, because the moon is a hostile environment, full of charged and abrasive lunar dust that can get into equipment and destroy electronics, as Yutu's troubles demonstrate.

I did, but then I started reading «The New Moon: Water, Exploration, and Future Habitation «(Cambridge University Press, 2014) and realized that my knowledge amounted to a teensy scrap of lunar dust.

Yet in November 1969, only months after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became history's first moonwalkers, Conrad left his own tracks in the lunar dust, as commander of the Apollo 12 mission.

The prototype machine, which cost $ 30,000 to build, is now at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where engineers will determine if the technology can be used to erect moon buildings out of lunar dust.

But while the agency's plans to return humans to the moon remain confused, a pack of private teams are racing to send robots to kick up lunar dust and claim the $ 20 - million Google Lunar X Prize announced nearly two years ago.

WHY: To measure the density and composition of lunar dust and see how it varies from month to month WHEN: May 1, 2012

Throw away your snow shovel and spend your evenings in the lunar dust soaking up the ultraviolet rays — but don't stay out too long!