Sentences with phrase «since lunar samples»
«NASA has been experiencing loss of astromaterials since lunar samples were first returned by Apollo missions,» inspector general Paul K. Martin detailed in the report.
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Its next moon mission: to return a lunar soil sample in 2017; if it succeeds, it will be the first collected since the last Apollo missions in the 1970s.
The prospect of samples being returned by Chang» e-5 next year — more than four decades since the last ones were snagged by the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976 — is tremendously exciting for lunar science, says Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and astrobiology at Birkbeck College in London.
But even though an Earthling has not set foot on the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972, samples brought back during that mission continue to grace the science community with insights into the nature of Earth's satellite.
China will attempt to land the Chang» e 3 rover on the moon at year's end, the first lunar surface mission since Russia's Luna 24 sample return lander in 1976.
Do you still believe that there has been a conspiracy theory dominating science since 1969 to hide the truth found in lunar sampling by Apollo?
They copied techniques that space scientists have used since 1969 to hide or manipulate experimental data on the Allende meteorite and the Apollo lunar samples that contradicted the SSM (Standard Solar Model) of a Hydrogen - filled Sun and its formation out of an interstellar cloud of mostly H and He.