Sentences with phrase «mission near the moon»

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Apollo Missions 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 landed near the equator of the moon in part because that area was easy to land and relatively obstacle free.

«The moon is the nearest island in space out from the Earth,» says Igor Mitrofanov at Russia's Institute for Space Research in Moscow, the project scientist for two planned Russian - led rover missions.

And a mission to return a sample from the moon's largest impact crater would have been some comfort to lunar scientists still smarting from Obama's decision to redirect NASA's crewed space exploration from the moon to near - Earth asteroids.

IKI now has five lunar missions planned from 2018 to 2025, starting with Luna - 25, a spacecraft that would land near the moon's south pole.

The 2018 budget request cancels NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission — an Obama administration - era project to bring part of an asteroid near the moon so astronauts could visit the space rock and retrieve samples — but included no details on cancelation other than it was needed «to accommodate increasing development costs.»

As expected, it seeks to cancel the Obama administration's Asteroid Redirect Mission, citing its expense, but offers no replacement near - term target for astronauts, such as the moon, or whether Mars remains its priority.

NASA currently envisions the first two SLS flights, EM - 1 and 2, as part of the agency's Asteroid Initiative mission proposal, which aims to robotically redirect a small Near - Earth Asteroid into orbit around the Moon by the end of the decade, to be later visited by human crews.

Ultracold hydrocarbon lakes and seas (dark shapes) near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan can be seen embedded in some kind of bright surface material in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission.

Cassini, which is nearing the end of its 13 - year mission exploring Saturn and its moons, detected the molecular hydrogen during its final pass through Enceladus» plumes in October 2015.