Sentences with phrase «more lunar missions»
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There were more complications on Apollo 13's failed lunar mission than most people realize.
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The country's first lunar forays — orbiters launched in 2007 and 2010 — were more engineering demonstrations than scientific missions, but that changed with the first lander, Chang «e-3.
«Each mission became more scientifically productive as the program went on,» says Paul Spudis, senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.
He knows, having been involved in NASA lunar and planetary missions for more than four decades.
Regardless of its ultimate scientific return, today's outcome will likely go down as one of the more bemusing episodes in NASA's long history of lunar missions.
The bridge mission could be anything from NASA's ambitious plan to capture an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit where astronauts could explore it, to a small and temporary station where astronauts can learn a little more about fending for themselves while in space.
The use of robotics and advanced SEP technologies like this concept of an SEP - based spacecraft during a NASA mission to find, rendezvous, capture and relocate an asteroid to a stable point in the lunar vicinity offers more mission flexibility than would be possible if a crewed mission went all the way to the asteroid.