Sentences with phrase «unmanned space probe»

The plot is triggered by the rescue of the contents from an unmanned space probe hit by a meteor on its return voyage from Mars.

Unmanned Space Probes Explore the Solar System (1959 - Present) NASA has sent numerous robotic space probes to various places in the solar system.

Not exact matches

Five decades after the U.S.S.R.'s Luna 2 moon probe became the first spacecraft to land on another celestial body, we look at the past accomplishments and tantalizing future of unmanned space exploration

On July 14, 2015, the unmanned New Horizons probe flew past it at a distance of 27,000 km (17,000 mi) while traveling at a velocity of 14 km / sec (31,000 mph) before heading into the Kuiper Belt as it shot towards interstellar space.

As NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 unmanned deep space probes head out of the Solar System, they are in territory that is the very definition of «uncharted.»

In space from November 14 - 24, 1969, astronauts Peter Conrad, Alan Bean, and Richard Gordon brought the first color television camera to the moon's surface, and studied the Surveyor 3, an unmanned probe that reached the moon's surface on April 20, 1967.