Sentences with phrase «lunar mission scheduled»
A NASA lunar mission scheduled to launch in September, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), may help settle the question of whether the moon once had a smaller companion.
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Its lunar exploration program is also increasingly science - driven, with a sample return mission scheduled for next year and the first ever landing on the far side of the moon planned for 2018.
China also characterized it as a final test of the new rocket before November's scheduled launch of the Chang» e-5 lunar sample return mission.
The tentatively scheduled missions to be launched by the nation includes lunar probes, crewed space missions and the construction of a space station.