Sentences with phrase «of reaching the moon»

Our MX family of flexible, scalable robotic explorers are capable of reaching the Moon and other solar system destinations from Earth orbit.

First of all, the high cost of reaching the moon, even if everything happens on time and on budget, may actually drain the enthusiasm for space exploration.

«The full success of our country's first lunar exploration mission is helping to turn the Chinese nation's 1000 - year old dream of reaching the Moon a reality,» Wen said.

The contemplation of reaching the moon's surface is an endearing and timeless quest: scientists, clerics, poets, philosophers and artists have all staked their claim on what the moon is and how best to reach it.

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Jones also says Musk could turn his short - term attention to industrializing the area between Earth and the moon as a way of eventually helping humans reach Mars.

Acquiring a moon can be as simple as reaching the top of a building or as difficult as defeating a boss.

Among some symbolic gestures, such as formally ending the Korean War, one of Moon's priorities will be to reach a consensus on denuclearization.

«If North Korea completes a ballistic missile that could reach from one continent to another, the situation can spiral out of control,» Moon said at an emergency meeting in Seoul, according to his office.

On Friday, Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae - in vowed «complete denuclearization» of the Korean Peninsula in the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade, but the declaration did not include concrete steps to reach that goal.

The discovery of water on the Moon is a game changer, not just for the economic viability of lunar resources, but for the economics of reaching Mars and other deep space destinations.

The Moon has only been reached by government superpowers, but new advances in technology are bringing the Moon within reach of everyone.

Our maiden robotic expeditions to the Moon will redefine the possible by bringing the Moon within reach of everyone.

The agreement Kim reached Friday with South Korean leader Moon Jae - in declared «a new era of peace» and sought a formal end to the seven - decade - old Korean War.

Angels are not sent out by God except when there is a real problem to be addressed and fixed; the very least the Unification Church could have done when I told them about this visitor (who is still with me by the way) was to send someone out to talk to me to see exactly what it was that I may have really known about the Providence concerning Rev. Moon reaching immortality in the flesh: but I suppose they all thought they knew more than my servant John; who happens to be» the greatest in the kingdom of heaven».

The light of the heavens, the stars and reflective light of the moon does reach the earth.

May 8, 2006 - Idaho Potato lover, Linda Greene of Moon Township, Pennsylvania reached into her sack of America's best - loved potatoes and found a miracle potato!

Placed end to end, the number of disposable straws used in the U.S. in the past 4 days could reach the moon.

I suspect this is another example of looking at very complex issues (i.e. child obesity) by breaking them down into component pieces (e.g. the menu in the school cafeteria, or the amount of exercise conducted per day, or the local socio - economic conditions, or what phase of the moon it is) and trying to reach some sort of valid conclusion.

Putting aside, for the moment, that all nations capable of reaching either the Moon or Mars have signed and ratified a treaty recognizing those areas as international territory, America is the only country to have ever placed people on a body outside the Earth, and we haven't even bothered doing it in over 40 years.

Pluto's largest moon, long seen as mysterious smudge at the outer reaches of our solar system, was revealed in 2015 closeup images to be pocked with craters, mountains and steep - sided depressions called chasmas.

When Voyager 2 reached Jupiter four months later, the giant planet was once again upstaged by one of its moons.

A new book from Viking Studio, Voices From the Moon by Andrew Chaikin and Victoria Kohl, tells the story of the Apollo program's bold ambitions through quotes from the 24 men who have reached the moon's orMoon by Andrew Chaikin and Victoria Kohl, tells the story of the Apollo program's bold ambitions through quotes from the 24 men who have reached the moon's ormoon's orbit.

This false color image from 2005 shows the reach of the spectacular plumes on the moon Enceladus.

The co-founder of SpaceIL, a contender for the Google Lunar XPRIZE, discusses his plans to reach the moon

Saturn's third - largest moon, 900 - mile - wide Iapetus, is girded at the equator with a unique ridge of mountains (photo on the left and in detail at right) that reach a height of 6 miles, taller than Mount Everest.

There was never any law saying random billionaires couldn't build their own rockets to the moon; it was just that during the heyday of the Expert, such a feat, like cutting both sides of your hair symmetrically, was assumed to be out of the layman's reach.

This is when the moon will reach its highest point of the night.

The renewed focus on the moon has reached a pinnacle with a trifecta of revelations released in the past year.

«I try to imagine how it would be to stand on the surface of this icy object — small enough that a fast sports car could reach escape velocity and drive off into space — and stare up at a 20 - kilometre wide ring system 1000 times closer than the Moon.»

Webb, however, will be stationed in deep space, past the orbit of the moon, out of reach of easy servicing.

The side of Pluto's largest moon viewed by NASA's passing New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015 is characterized by a system of «pull apart» tectonic faults, which are expressed as ridges, scarps and valleys — the latter sometimes reaching more than 4 miles (6.5 kilometers) deep.

Others think that the towering mountains, which may reach more than twice the height of Mount Everest, could be remnants of rings that once orbited the moon.

Just as important, the team concluded that once TESS reached its P / 2 orbit — through a series of maneuvers also involving a lunar flyby to gain momentum from the Moon's gravity — it would remain stably in that orbit for several decades.

Ice shells of icy satellites can have warm interiors — approximately 0 degrees C — but surface temperatures as low as -200 degrees C -LRB--330 F), like on Saturn's moon Enceladus, though the team's apparatus does not reach that extremely low temperature.

This is a tall order for a one - day summit, but Ban Ki - moon is expecting a whole series of announcements by major nations of new targets to cut greenhouse gases, and timetables to reach them.

These filters block out light pollution and the moon's glow, if present, by allowing only specific wavelengths of light to reach the camera sensor.

Moon admits she was pretty giddy when an editor at Science reached out to her to write a perspective piece on the state of the world's glaciers, because of her research knowledge and extensive publication record.

Although the two teams worked unaware of each other, they reached the same conclusion: A large impact can indeed form both moons.

The agency, however, was preoccupied with reaching the moon and couldn't accept the political risk of a project driven by bombs.

It outdistanced the moon in nine hours, reached the orbit of Mars in 11 weeks and swung around Jupiter in February 2007.

The U.S. government promptly redirected much of the project's resources toward space exploration and the race with the Soviet Union to reach the moon.

Because asteroids» gravity is so weak, landing on one takes less energy than reaching the surface of the moon or Mars.

Even if a mission to that moon were to be selected in NASA's next round of New Frontiers funding, it wouldn't reach the Saturn system until the late 2020s at the earliest.

ROMANTICS have long dreamed of flying to the moon, but few lobbied as relentlessly for the technological advances that would allow us to reach outer space as Willy Ley.

And Cassini spotted geysers of water vapor blasting from the southern reaches of the 313 - mile - wide (504 kilometers) moon Enceladus.

When he returned from the Apollo mission in 1969, Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, struggled with both the exhilaration and overwhelming public notoriety of having reached the grandest goal of his career at age 39.

Among the potential technological tools of the mission is a super-heated drill that would land on the moon's frozen surface and burrow through approximately 15 miles of frozen water, reaching the massive store of liquid water beneath.

Starting at around 8.30 am (the exact times vary by a few minutes around the country) the Moon will slowly begin moving in front of the Sun, reaching maximum coverage by about 9.30 am.

Re 92 and 105: First I just want to reitterate more generally what 105 said — Milankovitch cycles have had climate signals, in ice ages or otherwise, — well probably ever since the Moon formed, although the signal from times past will not always reach us, but I've read of evidence of Milankovitch precession cycle forcing of monsoons in lakes in Pangea (PS over geologic time the periods of some of the Milankovitch cycles have changed as the Moon recedes from the Earth due to tides).

The balloon was able to reach a height of 122,000 feet, where the onboard instruments gathered more data about the Sun, the moon and the Earth.