Sentences with phrase «lunar orbit back»

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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).

«Astronauts to bring asteroid back into lunar orbit: Plans to develop a robotic solar - powered spacecraft capable of displacing a near - Earth asteroid towards lunar orbit for ease of study proposed.»

You could do a round - trip from Earth orbit to lunar orbit and back in 24 hours.

The ship must then operate reliably in orbit there, unmanned, for up to six months while its lander carries the crew to the lunar surface and back.

It performs a flyby of Earth and continues thrusting with the ion drive to lower its energy with respect to the Earth - moon system, so that when it comes back to Earth a year later, it can use a lunar flyby to reenter high Earth orbit and await its next mission.

Bringing stuff back from beyond lunar orbit is technically challenging.

The recent announcement that $ 100 million had been earmarked in the White House's FY 2014 Budget Proposal Request to send an unmanned probe to an asteroid and have it transported back to lunar orbit to be studied by astronauts has generated a lot of buzz.

On Christmas Day, they left lunar orbit and began the long ride back to the home planet.

So sell for 150 per kg, and buy the rocket fuel back for 450 kg in lunar orbit.