Sentences with phrase «robotic mission now»

Stern, who is also the former head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and the principal investigator of the New Horizons robotic mission now en route to Pluto, said he believed tourists and commercial businesses (such as mining companies) would also be potential customers.

Not exact matches

Now, according to the company mission, «Golden Spike will exploit these advances, and others in the late stages of development, for commercial use, to offer human expeditions to the Moon at prices comparable to robotic flagship missions.»

In fact, you're working now on a robotic mission that will be done without government funding, right?

Second, the space agency needs to respect the firewall between robotic missions and human missions, because the goals of these two wings of the space program are, for now, so distinct.

In a rather intriguing twist, it appears that NASA is now mandated by law to fly a robotic mission to Jupiter's watery moon Europa.