Sentences with phrase «of lunar missions»

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.

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.

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.

«Until recently the European Space Agency had plans for a lunar lander (which has since been scrapped) and the science case for Lunar Mission One is quite similar,» Ian Crawford, one of Lunar Mission One's principle scientific advisers, told BBC News.

Not exact matches

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

One of the big limiting factors in plaguing future space missions is lifting off from Earth with all the supplies, fuel, spacecraft and equipment humans would need to establish a permanent lunar base or field a Mars mission.

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.

Right, Harrison H. Schmitt, an Apollo 17 astronaut, working beside a large lunar boulder on one of three moonwalks during that mission.

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.

A startup is close to securing the approval of federal authorities for its first private lunar mission.

Our robotic spacecraft systems will collapse the cost of access to the Moon, introduce a new commercial paradigm for government missions, democratize lunar research and exploration, and blaze the trail for commercial space transportation and exploration beyond Earth's orbit.

Which means the Dragon 2 lunar mission will occur hot off the heels of SpaceX's first human mission into 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.

In our podcast's inaugural episode, Commercial Lunar Ambitions, Chad interviews John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic — one of the most influential leaders in the entrepreneurial space sector, and who is currently planning the world's first commercial mission to the Moon in 2019.

Experts appearing include Anjana Ahuja, science writer for The Times, Dr Kevin Fong, Co-Director of the Centre for Aviation Space, UCL Professor Gerard de Groot, author of Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent madness of the American Lunar Quest and Sima Adya, Space Missions Scientist.

Discovering molecular hydrogen on the moon was a surprise result from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which crash - landed the LCROSS satellite's spent Centaur rocket at 5,600 miles per hour into the Cabeus crater in the permanently shadowed region of the moon.

Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions — a permanently shadowed crater on the moon.

Lunar material kicked up by the LCROSS mission contained at least a few bucketfuls of water, NASA announced on Friday.

The calculations also predicted lunar rocks should have iridium levels of 10 parts per trillion or less — a figure that moon rocks returned by NASA's Apollo missions have already confirmed (Icarus, DOI: 10.1016 / j.icarus.2009.07.015).

Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk of the Institute for the History of Science in Warsaw noted that another Kepler will retrace that sub - to supra - lunar trajectory next February, when NASA launches the Kepler mission, designed by modern dreamers to find Earth - like planets elsewhere in the Milky Way.

The successful mission of Apollo 11 opens an epoch of planned lunar exploration.

Wang and Jacobsen examined seven lunar rock samples from different lunar missions and compared their potassium isotope ratios to those of eight terrestrial rocks representative of Earth's mantle.

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.

The timing of the lunar reveal was notable in at least one other respect, arriving as it did one day before the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17, the last mission to deliver astronauts to the moon.

«What is amazing is you can see this feature while the rim is very likely in front of the line of sight,» said Andreas Nathues, who is in charge of the mission's camera, and presented the images yesterday at the Lunar and Planetary Science conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas.

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.

The cosmic collision is intentional: Mission engineers need to guide the spacecraft down because they have run out of fuel to keep themselves in lunar orbit.

Its lunar exploration program is also increasingly science - driven, with a sample return mission scheduled for next year and the first ever landing on the far side of the moon planned for 2018.

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.

The House proposal would also allow NASA to keep all its aging planetary explorers; the White House «had essentially proposed defunding two of the missions — the Opportunity Mars rover and the 5 - year - old Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.»

Just a few months into its mission, NASA's newest Mars orbiter is finding an assortment of oddities in the Martian atmosphere, researchers report March 18 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

An odd offset of the ice from the moon's current north and south poles was a tell - tale indicator to Siegler and prompted him to assemble a team of experts to take a closer look at the data from NASA's Lunar Prospector and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.

Two Japanese moon missions, Lunar A in 2004 and Selene 1 in 2005, will help determine what exactly is cooking at the middle of the moon.

Or you could try a moon burial à la Eugene Shoemaker, codiscoverer of the Comet Shoemaker - Levy; Shoemaker's ashes were sent crashing into a moon crater during the NASA Lunar Prospector mission.

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

Yet in November 1969, only months after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became history's first moonwalkers, Conrad left his own tracks in the lunar dust, as commander of the Apollo 12 mission.

Jeffrey Taylor of the University of Hawaii says it was the final Apollo missions of 1972 that propelled lunar science and transformed our understanding of the moon.

NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini missions, along with India's lunar probe Chandrayaan - 1, examined how the sun's infrared rays reflect off the moon and detected the telltale fingerprints of water molecules.

Two of them will be part of the GRAIL mission — the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — now starting to make extremely precise measurements of the lunar gravitational field.

The bounty of lunar samples brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts included volcanic glass hauled in during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions.

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.

Three recent missions have found an unexpectedly large supply of water on the moon that could both quench the thirst of future lunar dwellers and produce fuel for missions to other places in the solar system.

Now might be the best time to study unexamined caches of lunar material from the Apollo missions

Tikoo and colleagues analyzed fragments of a lunar rock collected along the southern rim of the moon's Dune Crater during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.

This flotilla of 21st - century moon explorers should arrive bristling with technologies that will help them map the moon's uncharted regions and prospect for resources that could one day sustain lunar outposts and missions further afield (see «The international lunar line - up «-RRB-.

Lunar mining start - up Moon Express is testing robotic moon landers in advance of a 2015 trial mission.

It had been nearly 45 years since Schmitt bunny - hopped his way across the low - gravity lunar landscape in December 1972 during the final Apollo mission; half of Apollo's 12 moon walkers have now died.

The announcement followed a scientific review of the missions; it was feared that two of them — the Mars rover Opportunity and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter — would be shut down.

«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.

The Apollo missions brought back a combined 842 pounds of lunar rock and soil between July 1969 and December 1972.