Sentences with phrase «successful space mission»

Yet, the rewards of a successful space mission were not primarily financial or economic; they weren't exclusively social or military.

Every successful space mission requires an influential captain.

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It would mark the first private space mission to the moon, if successful.

The resulting data have helped the European Space Agency hone its recent successful robotic missions, including the Huygens lander on Titan and Mars Express.

If the mission is successful, Fobos - Grunt will be the first probe to explore the Earth - Phobos - Earth space highway.

This chronology gives a list of known (successful and unsuccessful) lunar and planetary missions including a few historical missions which were instrumental in the development and evolution of space exploration.

Before every successful manned or robotic mission has ever flown to space countless man - hours were devoted for extensive and rigorous testing on the -LSB-...]

He quoted Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren as saying the recent successful SpaceX mission represented a new model for the space program — «one initiated by this Administration.»

It has truly been an exciting year for Mars and human space exploration with NASA's announcement of the Journey to Mars program that includes a human mission to the Red Planet, astronaut Scott Kelly starting a one - year mission on board the ISS, the highly - publicized debut of «The Martian» movie, the successful growth of SpaceX and the commercial space industry, and NASA's recent confirmation of water on the surface of Mars.

MSSS also recently celebrated the successful launch and mission success of the earth - orbiting CMA instrument, on which the new ECAM modular space camera platform is based.

The future of astronomy in space will be at substantial risk if it must depend on the successful deployment of only a few missions per decade.

Should the trial be successful, AstroRad will be used on the upcoming planned manned missions to deep space.

India takes giant step to manned space mission The successful launch of India's first rocket equipped with an astronaut module brings it closer The Collection in Context presents the Asia Society's collection of nearly three hundred works of art in their historical and cultural context.

As China seeks to follow their Jade Rabbit space rover project with fully manned missions to the moon and India's successful Chandrayaan programme as they further their ambitions for a mission to Mars in 2014, we seem to be entering a new geopolitical space race.

The space shuttle program has so far had two catastrophic failures out of many successful missions.

There were political benefits of a successful mission, to be sure, but the real fuel behind America's space program was the sense of hope and inspiration that it gave to millions of ordinary Americans.

Following the successful landing of Rosetta mission's Philae on a comet in November, a UK - based team is now tinkering its way to capitalize on a resuscitated space exploration plan.