Sentences with phrase «manned lunar missions»

When Apollo 11 landed on the moon, NASA's plan was to continue manned lunar missions through Apollo 20.

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.»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«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.»

And science has progressively become a bigger part of missions run by both the China National Space Administration (CNSA), which governs lunar and planetary exploration, and the China Manned Space Agency.

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 Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's visionary plan slates an independent manned space mission and establishment of an international lunar base by 2025.

«This system is better equipped than the previous model for lunar projects with greater energy needs, such as a manned mission spending the night on the moon,» reports Gonzalez - Cinca.

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 cosmonauts.

Kring says that even given the uncertainties in the future of manned spaceflight in the U.S., the lunar orbiter is a mission whose time has come.

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

Having successfully demonstrated that radar can be used to detect and track spacecraft in lunar orbit, the researchers now intend to use these arrays as a hazard assessment tool in future manned and unmanned missions to the moon.

In 2019, the David Guiraud Gallery is going to present a major exhibition on NASA's Lunar Orbiter, Gemini and Apollo missions that put the first man on the Moon.

The tapes from the Lunar Orbiter missions were primarily used to locate landing sites for the manned Apollo missions, and once those missions were over, the data was largely forgotten.