Sentences with phrase «lunar surface missions»

While many in Congress and the space community call for stability and continuity at NASA — no big changes like those imposed by President Obama — an exception is made for the prospect of restoring lunar surface missions.

Obama and Congress agreed that the long term goal is landing humans on Mars, but not on whether lunar surface missions are a necessary prerequisite.

Based on the calculations we've done, we can actually do lunar surface missions, with no propellant production on the surface of the moon.

China will attempt to land the Chang» e 3 rover on the moon at year's end, the first lunar surface mission since Russia's Luna 24 sample return lander in 1976.

Not exact matches

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

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

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 LRO would be forced to shut down its instruments for this eclipse, Petro said other lunar eclipses are a great opportunity for the mission to study how the lunar surface cools during these events, giving insight into the materials making up the surface.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission has been investigating the lunar surface since Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission has been investigating the lunar surface since lunar surface since 2009.

NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini missions and the Indian probe Chandrayaan - 1 last year reported detecting a water film only a few molecules thick over large parts of the lunar surface.

Four years ago, as GRAIL's two spacecraft neared the end of a 1 - year orbital mission with a planned crash into the lunar surface, they measured Orientale from a scant altitude of 2 kilometers.

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.

«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.

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.

Tiny beads of volcanic glass found on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions are a sign that fire fountain eruptions took place on the Moon's surface.

Exquisite telescopic photographs of the lunar surface had existed for decades before the Apollo missions to the Moon, but they did not resolve the controversy of the origin of lunar craters were they formed by meteorite impact or by volcanic eruption?

A moon - orbiting asteroid would probably also be of interest to private companies proposing human missions to the lunar surface for scientific exploration and mining studies.

But even though an Earthling has not set foot on the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972, samples brought back during that mission continue to grace the science community with insights into the nature of Earth's satellite.

WHY: To analyze the lunar surface and demonstrate new technologies, such as a laser - imaging system, for possible future manned missions.

Humans have not set foot on the moon since December 14, 1972, when astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission departed the lunar surface to return home.

«The gateway could move to support robotic or partner missions to the surface of the moon, or to a high lunar orbit to support missions departing from the gateway to other destinations in the solar system,» Gerstenmaier added.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Tiny beads of volcanic glass found on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions are a sign that fire fountain eruptions took place on the Moon's surface.

«When I weigh the cost benefit of going back to the lunar surface in a limited budget environment, and going to Mars, I would rather take what little money I have upfront and advance the technologies we're going to need» to do Mars missions, he said.

These talks would be visually augmented by NASA lunar imagery such as high - resolution photographs of the lunar surface, the latest lunar science visualizations, as well as by animations of current and future lunar missions.

It will «tell the story of human exploration of the moon» from the Apollo program through modern - day missions designed to study the lunar surface, the museum added.

NASA»S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) misLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mislunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) misLunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission.

She also helped develop the Irvine - Michigan - Brookhaven detector to look for proton decay and neutrinos; detectors, hardware and software of the MACHO project to look for dark matter; detectors and software for the CLEMENTINE mission to map the lunar surface; the Gamma - Ray Optical Counterpart Search Experiment for observing gamma - ray bursts; and was a key member of the team that discovered the burst of neutrinos from Supernova 1987A.

Project Description: Science Mission: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic mission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding envirMission: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic mission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding environLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic mission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding envirmission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding environlunar surface and surrounding environment.

Two years after placing its very first rover on the surface of the moon, China has announced it would launch a mission to return lunar samples to Earth later this year.

The tests at Ames simulate a mission in which astronauts parked at Earth - moon Lagrange point 2 — a gravitationally stable spot located about 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) above the moon's surface — operate a rover on the lunar farside.

During the Apollo lunar missions between 1968 and 1972 all of those on board were given 16 mm cameras and asked to film everything they saw, in space and on the surface of the moon.

Conceived of by artist Forrest Myers in 1969, the Moon Museum was established on the lunar surface after works by six contemporary artists arrived with the Apollo 12 mission, the second moon landing.

However, the Diviner mission has established that at the lunar equator, the warmest part of the surface, the mean temperature is just 206 K.