Sentences with phrase «lunar mission in»

It includes extraordinary footage showing an «earthrise» and «earthset» videotaped during a Japanese lunar mission in 2007.

CE5 - T1 marks China's fourth lunar mission in the Chang» e series, named after a moon goddess in Chinese mythology.

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Its next moon mission: to return a lunar soil sample in 2017; if it succeeds, it will be the first collected since the last Apollo missions in the 1970s.

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 group of companies is aiming to send Audi lunar quattro rovers to the landing site of NASA's Apollo 17 mission — when man last set foot on the moon in 1972.

It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

The agency was looking for domestic vendors interested in, or capable of, developing commercial payload landing services for future missions to the lunar surface.

In our podcast's inaugural episode, Commercial Lunar Ambitions, Chad interviews John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic — one of the most influential leaders in the entrepreneurial space sector, and who is currently planning the world's first commercial mission to the Moon in 201In our podcast's inaugural episode, Commercial Lunar Ambitions, Chad interviews John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic — one of the most influential leaders in the entrepreneurial space sector, and who is currently planning the world's first commercial mission to the Moon in 201in the entrepreneurial space sector, and who is currently planning the world's first commercial mission to the Moon in 201in 2019.

Since its forming in 2008, ESI has made considerable progress towards the Moon, including winning a contract with NASA worth up to 10 million dollars to deliver data on its lunar mission.

Discovering molecular hydrogen on the moon was a surprise result from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which crash - landed the LCROSS satellite's spent Centaur rocket at 5,600 miles per hour into the Cabeus crater in the permanently shadowed region of the moon.

By the time the Apollo 11 mission was on the launchpad for its historic trip to the lunar surface in July 1969, we may have figured out how to send a man to the moon, but we hadn't yet figured out how to send good food with him.

Although those missions could be seen as stepping stones to a later asteroid mission, many lunar scientists view the region as a destination in its own right (see «Moonstruck»).

«They already have the capability,» he says, «to do a lunar circumnavigation mission just about anytime they want to in unmanned form, and then ultimately fly it manned.»

He does not think that Soyuz will be ready for a lunar flyby anytime soon, and says that «without a significant increase in funding and drastic reforms within the industry, any manned lunar mission could not be achieved by 2025, in my opinion.»

Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk of the Institute for the History of Science in Warsaw noted that another Kepler will retrace that sub - to supra - lunar trajectory next February, when NASA launches the Kepler mission, designed by modern dreamers to find Earth - like planets elsewhere in the Milky Way.

The country's first lunar forays — orbiters launched in 2007 and 2010 — were more engineering demonstrations than scientific missions, but that changed with the first lander, Chang «e-3.

Eagerly anticipated missions in the coming decade include attempts to bring back lunar samples, a joint CAS — ESA project to study space weather and ground - breaking missions to probe dark matter and black holes.

Clark hopes to test his system in a few years aboard an unmanned lunar precursor mission.

«Each mission became more scientifically productive as the program went on,» says Paul Spudis, senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

Public interest in seeing men on the moon had declined after Apollo 11, and the mechanical travails that threatened the lives of the crew of Apollo 13 in April 1970 heightened concerns about the risks of lunar missions.

The timing of the lunar reveal was notable in at least one other respect, arriving as it did one day before the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17, the last mission to deliver astronauts to the moon.

«What is amazing is you can see this feature while the rim is very likely in front of the line of sight,» said Andreas Nathues, who is in charge of the mission's camera, and presented the images yesterday at the Lunar and Planetary Science conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas.

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.

The cosmic collision is intentional: Mission engineers need to guide the spacecraft down because they have run out of fuel to keep themselves in lunar orbit.

Just a few months into its mission, NASA's newest Mars orbiter is finding an assortment of oddities in the Martian atmosphere, researchers report March 18 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

Two Japanese moon missions, Lunar A in 2004 and Selene 1 in 2005, will help determine what exactly is cooking at the middle of the moon.

These missions will in a short time lead to a longer - term mission at the lunar south pole.

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 new moon: Blue shows water, red indicates an iron - based mineral, and green shows reflectivity in an image from India's first lunar mission.

The bounty of lunar samples brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts included volcanic glass hauled in during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions.

UV images of the lunar surface show patterns that correlate with the concentration of TiO2 measured in lunar samples collected by the Apollo missions, and so a map of the UV variations can be used to create a map of TiO2 abundance.

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.

Since then, several NASA missions have imaged the lunar far side in great detail.

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.

After almost a half - century hiatus, lunar missions are once again becoming the next big thing in space science and exploration

Tikoo and colleagues analyzed fragments of a lunar rock collected along the southern rim of the moon's Dune Crater during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.

He is the project scientist on a proposed robotic mission called Resource Prospector, which could launch in 2018 to try to extract water from lunar rocks.

In a new paper in Scientific Reports, FSU Dean of the College of Human Sciences and Professor Michael Delp explains that the men who traveled into deep space as part of the lunar missions were exposed to levels of galactic cosmic radiation that have not been experienced by any other astronauts or cosmonautIn a new paper in Scientific Reports, FSU Dean of the College of Human Sciences and Professor Michael Delp explains that the men who traveled into deep space as part of the lunar missions were exposed to levels of galactic cosmic radiation that have not been experienced by any other astronauts or cosmonautin Scientific Reports, FSU Dean of the College of Human Sciences and Professor Michael Delp explains that the men who traveled into deep space as part of the lunar missions were exposed to levels of galactic cosmic radiation that have not been experienced by any other astronauts or cosmonauts.

Lunar mining start - up Moon Express is testing robotic moon landers in advance of a 2015 trial mission.

It had been nearly 45 years since Schmitt bunny - hopped his way across the low - gravity lunar landscape in December 1972 during the final Apollo mission; half of Apollo's 12 moon walkers have now died.

«We anticipate CATALYST will lead to delivery of payloads and missions to the lunar surface in the same way that commercial transport services to the space station have,» says Moon Express CEO Bob Richards.

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.

In the summer of 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took humanity's first steps onto the lunar surface during nasa's Apollo 11 mission.

Brown University's Alberto Saal and colleagues measured the ratio of hydrogen to deuterium (hydrogen with an extra neutron) in lunar rock samples from the Apollo missions.

Alberto Saal of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and colleagues re-examined lunar volcanic rocks collected in the 1970s during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions.

Lunar Prospector, which was launched on January 6 as part of NASA's low budget Discovery program to study the composition of the moon, has apparently put doubts to rest in the first weeks of its planned two - year mission.

Despite these vastly different time spans, their results agree with findings from the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment that has been measuring the distance between Earth and the Moon since NASA's Apollo missions in the 1960s and has been able to monitor possible variations in G at very high precision.

«NASA has been experiencing loss of astromaterials since lunar samples were first returned by Apollo missions,» inspector general Paul K. Martin detailed in the report.

The White House had essentially proposed defunding two of the missions — the Opportunity Mars rover and the 5 - year - old Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter — in its request.

He knows, having been involved in NASA lunar and planetary missions for more than four decades.