lunar rough-landing spacecraft
1Lunar outpost (NASA) — Concept art from NASA showing astronauts entering a lunar outpost. (2006) A lunar outpost was an element of the George W. Bush era Vision for Space Exploration, which has been replaced with President Barack Obama s space policy.[1] The outpost… …
2Orion (spacecraft) — Infobox Spacecraft Name = Orion Caption = Orion logo designed by Michael Okuda Organization = NASA Major Contractors = Lockheed Martin Bus = Mission Type = Crew Exploration Vehicle Flyby Of = Satellite Of = Earth, Moon, Asteroid, Mars (possibly)… …
3moon — mooner, n. moonless, adj. /moohn/, n. 1. the earth s natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km). 2. this body during a particular lunar month, or during a… …
4Moon — /moohn/, n. Sun Myung /sun myung/, born 1920, Korean religious leader: founder of the Unification Church. * * * Sole natural satellite of Earth, which it orbits from west to east at a mean distance of about 238,900 mi (384,400 km). It is less… …
5Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …
6Ranger 4 — was a spacecraft of the Ranger program designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to impacting on the Moon, to rough land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma… …
7Canceled Apollo missions — Due to budget constraints there were many canceled Apollo missions during the Apollo program. Along with Apollos 18 , 19 and 20 , which received some level of planning, there were a variety of later planned flights. Some of these were… …
8Apollo Guidance Computer — and DSKY Invented by MIT Instrumentation Laboratory Manufacturer Raytheon Introduced August 1966 …
9Ranger 3 — was a spacecraft of the Ranger program that was launched to study the Moon on January 26, 1962. The space probe was designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to impacting on …
10Ranger 5 — was a spacecraft of the Ranger program designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to impacting on the Moon, to rough land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma… …
