Sentences with phrase «precursor missions»

Brooks: In addition to precursor missions, the most astounding thing for us as humans will be if we discover life somewhere else.

NASA, as part of its Origins program, is planning no fewer than four so - called precursor missions by 2001.

Clark hopes to test his system in a few years aboard an unmanned lunar precursor mission.

Solar sails are a promising way of doing an interstellar precursor mission.

«Curiosity not only will return a wealth of important science data, but it will serve as a precursor mission for human exploration to the Red Planet.»

This private mission might be a good precursor mission before a full Martian landing, according to Carberry.

The group in which he works is involved in the instrumental development for the LISA PathFinder mission (ESA), a technology precursor mission for a future space - based gravitational - wave observatory, LISA, which will detect the gravitational radiation from low frequency sources like massive black hole mergers, inspiraling stellar compact objects into massive black holes, and galactic binaries.

Not exact matches

Precursor Ventures is not yet a big name in venture capital, but it's taking on a big mission: Making sure more entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds get an equal shot at venture capital dollars and their Silicon Valley dreams.

The space race was in high gear, with the USSR landing a vehicle on the moon and the U.S. successfully completing its Gemini program — the precursor to the Apollo moon landing missions.

Once the families were identified using the chemical DNA, their evolution was studied with the help of their ages and kinematical properties obtained from the space mission Hipparcos, the precursor of Gaia, the spacecraft orbiting Earth that was launched by the European Space Agency and is almost halfway through a 5 - year project to map the sky.

A study that used stored blood samples from U.S. Air Force personnel who conducted aerial herbicide spray missions of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war found a more than 2-fold increased risk of the precursor to multiple myeloma known as monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), according to an article published online by JAMA Oncology.

«Looking even beyond that, we start thinking about human precursor - class missions — so, maybe something in the 2 - to 3 - ton [range],» he added.

Ostensibly designed as a precursor to future NASA missions to Mars and deep space, one scientist called the Asteroid Redirect Mission a «one - off costly stunt» that did nothing but distract from the agency's ultimate goal of sending a manned mission to the Red Mission a «one - off costly stunt» that did nothing but distract from the agency's ultimate goal of sending a manned mission to the Red mission to the Red Planet.

Margolis will take guests on a storytelling adventure through Cassini's mission — its perilous swings past gas giants, icy rings and moons that carry the precursors for life.

In search of meteor showers, an airborne research mission indicates that the chemical precursors to life found in comet dust into early Earth's atmosphere.

Those expecting the TV show may scoff, but for the rest, Mission Impossible can be seen as a bit of a precursor to smarter spy actioners like The Bourne Identity and TV shows like «24», mixing intricate plotting with rip - roaring action in a way that allows us to gape and gasp, while not feeling guilty that we are enjoying a bunch of complete nonsense.

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Serving as an exciting precursor to the German sports car marque's highly - anticipated Mission E production car, the Panamera can travel up to 50 km on electricity alone.

This new short film is a precursor to much larger cinematic experience that is entitled Library Wars: The Last Mission and will open in Japan on October 10.

So Sugar Hill Smiles acts as a precursor to the «till» paintings, as way of giving back to the community, especially in light of the announcement that you and Lehmann Maupin will be donating a percentage of the sales to Housing Works, an organization whose mission is to end AIDS and homelessness.