Sentences with phrase «than the moon landing»

Zubrin passionately argued that the space agency must aim for a more ambitious target, asserting that with «gutsy leadership» a visit to Mars could be closer to reality than a moon landing was at the dawn of the Apollo program in 1961.

Although it may be counterintuitive that Apollo 8, rather than the moon landing seven months later, should mark the high point of public support for the space program, McCurdy sees some reasons for this.

Not exact matches

Since NASA landed the first man on the Moon in 1969, its budget has plummeted from 4.5 % of the Federal budget to less than 0.5 %.

And yet Peggy's preamble to her Burger Chef pitch contained this admission against interest, in reference to the moon landing broadcast: «I certainly can't tell a better story than the one we saw [on television] last night.

Just because man is able to split the atom in half and go to the moon, swim in water when man is made for land (boats), travel faster on land (car, train) than walking, and fly when man naturally does not fly (plane)-- all that is not enough to establish that man has the capacity to understand the evidence of God's existence.

-- or that it's all so technical, so infinitely more scientific and complex than the average Joe — even Joe College — can grasp — what with moon landings, electronic snooping, laser beams, micro-biotics.

Born in the Land of the Rising Sun, We are the True Buddha, far more glorious than the moon.

Much of the land surrounding the airport is volcanic rock and looks more like the surface of the moon rather than a tropical paradise.

Remember, someone is 10 times more likely to believe that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax than to do a HB.

They make an attractive target for exploration as a craft could potentially fly through them to take samples, much simpler than landing on a moon.

To live, explore, and experiment on the moon means we need to plot — far more intimately than before — the lay of the land.

Since it is within Earth's gravitational pull, Hayabusa is the first spacecraft returning to Earth after landing on and lifting off a heavenly object other than the Moon.

Given the rapid technological advances we've witnessed over past decades — your cell phone has more processing power than NASA's computers had during the moon landings — it's not a huge leap to imagine that such simulations will eventually encompass intelligent life.

Because asteroids» gravity is so weak, landing on one takes less energy than reaching the surface of the moon or Mars.

Humans landed on the Moon less than ten years after we first achieved Earth orbit.

This is the area where NASA — which has landed and taken off from the Moon, and landed a huge rover on Mars — has a lot more experience than SpaceX.

But without research to show the impact, experiences like landing on the moon or the sinking of the Titanic could be closer to entertainment than education, argue critics, who say much of what's being marketed as virtual reality is not groundbreaking — or even new.

Did you know that vehicles on the road today have more computing power in their self - diagnosing systems than the aircraft that landed on the moon?

And Guy Steuart III, Chairman of Half Moon, talks about how — more than 50 years ago — a group of 17 investors (including his grandfather) were able to buy the land, build the resort, and expand it to more than 400 acres, and how those same families still control the property today with the same vision and spirit of the original owners.

Striding through the icy tunnels of Hoth as Darth Vader, cutting down rebel scum with ease; battling the Imperial forces on the forest moon of Endor as Luke Skywalker while the Empire's dreaded AT - AT stomps ever closer to victory; watching as a X-Wing comes screaming downwards for a perfect strafing run on an AT - ST; feeling a chill run down my spin as a team - mate is suddenly yanked up into the air and choked to death, the sure sign that I'm seconds away from death as Darth Vader himself comes into view; defending an AT - AT as nothing more than a Stormtrooper, witnessing raging battle on both land in the sky.

For more than a decade, Dean worked with many of America's leading artists, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jamie Wyeth, and Norman Rockwell, to document the NASA programs that culminated in the first manned landing on the moon.

A controversial recent study [MOTIVATED REJECTION OF SCIENCE — NASA faked the moon landing, Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science] has shown that prominent climate sceptics are six times more likely to show narcissistic characteristics than the rest of the community.

Of course Trump doesn't need to know any more «science» than John Kennedy did when he announced the project of landing on the moon.

The moon landings were spurred by cold war rivalries and Rees said the energy challenge would provide its own motivation: «I find it hard to imagine anything more inspiring for engineers than to provide clean energy for the world.»

Even if the data was good, it would mean that less than.2 % of the «skeptics» adopted the moon landing conspiracy theory.

And a Google search this week for «Apollo moon landing hoax» yielded more than 1.5 billion results.

So we have a whole adult generation for whom climate change is no more «real» than the trenches of WW1 or the Apollo Moon Landings or Wimbledon winning the FA Cup.

How seriously would the Apollo mission have been taken if they announced they understood gravity well enough that it was «very likely (greater than 90 %)» that they'd be able to calculate the position of the moon for the landing.

The moons small density will have an effect on the surface of the planet as water is denser than land and has elasticity to it.

But this would be no leap equivalent to landing on the moon, because it would not yield any benefit to us greater than burning coal.

Many, many many more young minds were inspired by the possibilities that the moon landing represented than were moved by the lonely image of the earth in Space.

Half Moon Lake Resort applied for a declaration that the renewal option was not prohibited by the consent order, Strathcona County applied for a declaration that campsite leases in a form different than that approved by the consent order were invalid, and the Registrar of Land Titles sought directions about the obligations imposed on that office by the consent order.

Instead, he rejected (at para 52) Half Moon Lake Resort's argument that characteristics of the transaction other than its character as a conveyance of an interest in land were not relevant.

There is nothing worse than partying up with someone that sounds like they just landed on the moon.

The iPhone or Android in your pocket right now has more computing power than all of NASA had combined when we landed a man on the moon.