Sentence examples for a lunar programme of from inspiring English sources

China has announced a lunar programme of its own.

The original lunar programme grew out of the bipolar political world of the cold war.

"China's lunar programme is an important component of mankind's activities to explore [the] peaceful use of space," Sun Huixian, a space engineer with the Chinese lunar programme, told Xinhua.

At least it is alive and so it is possible we could save it," the official Xinhua news agency quoted Pei Zhaoyu, spokesman for the lunar programme, as saying on a verified account on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

On one level, its lunar programme is an expensive advertisement for economic prowess.

This will be the workhorse of China's lunar programme.

In the next phase of China's lunar programme, the Chang'e 5 and 6 missions will attempt to collect lunar samples and return them to Earth.

He is the chief designer of China's lunar programme, which in 2013 landed the first probe on the Moon for nearly 40 years.

As an acknowledged expert and author of several books on the Soviet and Russian space programme, Brian Harvey is ideally suited to cover not only the engineering and scientific side but also the human stories of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme.

A £10m programme of cultural events.

In 2004, government officials announced an unmanned lunar exploration programme that would put satellites in lunar orbit, touch down on the surface and finally bring home up to two kilograms of rock samples before 2020.