Sentences with phrase «on lunar exploration»

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Our second lunar expedition will utilize our MX - 2 exploration system to establish a research outpost on a «peak of eternal light» at the Moon's South Pole, where direct solar energy and communications with Earth are possible.

Less than seven years after Kennedy's speech, on July 20th 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 landed the Eagle module on the lunar surface — and humankind took its famed giant leap forward into interplanetary exploration.

On 12 February, he proposed a 2019 budget that would allow the agency to begin planning a US$ 200 - million lunar exploration programme.

She and other US scientists, in a collaboration known as the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, have been churning out studies on how future missions might answer key science questions.

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.

That's not just a hypothesis for our satellite's origins: the latest space racers want to build a lunar staging post for exploration, and settlement, of the solar system (see «China lands on moon, kicks off next lunar space race «-RRB-.

Some of the above - mentioned mirrors have been left on the surface of the Moon in the framework of the lunar exploration programs led by the USA or the former USSR several decades ago, such as the Apollo program.

According to Glotch, the discovery of nonbasaltic volcanoes on the far side of the moon «shows that the moon is more compositionally diverse than we realized before this new age of lunar exploration.»

Some of the savings from defunding the ISS would feed into NASA's return to the moon, chiefly a new lunar robotic exploration program as well as a «Deep Space Gateway» in lunar orbit that would serve as a staging ground for operations on the surface.

To help aspiring lunar explorers, startup launch services firm Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of El Segundo, California, is offering to fly contestants» rovers on its Falcon rockets at cost, which would be about $ 7 million for its smallest booster.

Astrobotic, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, has been selected by NASA to receive a Phase II SBIR award to develop a small lunar rover capable of carrying on small scale science and exploration on the Moon and other planetary surfaces.

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«I think one of the most aggravating, restricting facets of lunar surface exploration is the dust and its adherence to everything no matter what kind of material, whether it be skin, suit material, metal, no matter what it be and its restrictive, friction - like action to everything it gets on,» said Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan during the Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing.

Instead what they really wanted was 10 years of free publicity linking the Google brand to lunar exploration, on the backs of the hopes of dreams of naive people who grossly underestimates the difficulty of spaceflight.