Sentence examples for descent engine from inspiring English sources
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon in 1969, TRW provided the module's descent engine.
B3 SCIENCE/HEALTH Critique of Mars Program The Mars Polar Lander probably failed because the spacecraft's descent engine shut down prematurely, but the mission's loss could ultimately be attributed to inadequate management, testing and financing, independent experts told NASA.
The Mars Polar Lander spacecraft probably failed last year because its descent engine shut down prematurely, but the mission's loss can ultimately be attributed to inadequate management, testing and financing, independent experts told NASA today.
As Kranz gave the "go" for Armstrong and Aldrin to fire their descent engine, no one needed to remind him that a decade of immense human effort and sacrifice hung on the next 12 minutes.
This group analyzed NASA's engineering efforts to plant a flag on the Moon despite an absence of flag-fluttering wind (no atmosphere), extreme heat (2,000-degrees 2,000-degreesnerated by the nearby descent engine) and a lack oFahrenheithoringeneratedpsoil.
To be precise, the lunar module Eagle (and all of the others that landed on the moon) consisted of two stages — the bottom stage contained the descent engine and all of the scientific equipment deployed (including the lunar rovers in later missions).
Next it will cut away the parachute and ignite its descent engines to slow down further.
Dust blown away by its descent engines revealed conglomerates - rocks made up of small pebbles cemented together by finer material.
"You can see in the near-field the scour marks the descent engines made on the surface," noted Justin Maki, a curiosity imaging scientist.
Plescia said he had assumed that it would be possible to find the landing sites of Luna 9 and 13 by spotting albedo marks — a change in the lunar surface brightness made by their descent engines.
One second later the descent rocket engine was cut off, as the astronauts gazed down onto a sheet of lunar soil blown radially in all directions.
