Sentence examples for descent stage from inspiring English sources

The descent stage is not habitable by men.

The descent stage has eight rocket motors on its corners.

"The rover is called Curiosity," he said, "but we secretly named the descent stage Audacity".

The combined lander is made up of a descent stage and a rover, which are connected by a tethered device.

But at an altitude of 1.6km a specially designed descent stage bearing the rover will drop away from this vehicle.

After the rover cuts off the tether, the descent stage will be driven by the deputy thrusters as far away from the rover as possible.

In fact, the dancers are part of a performance called Descent, staged by a Williamsburg choreographer named Noemie Lafrance and viewed by a real audience at the top of the stairwell.

A few days later, the organization where he had once worked, Gay Men of African Descent, staged "A Protest to Stop Gay Bullying and Suicides" and posted a large black-and-white photograph of Mr. Jefferson on its Web site alongside the listing for the event.

And then it's surrounded by the blast pattern from the descent stage--those little blue fans right next to it (false colour blue)." This color-enhanced view of NASA's Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as the satellite flew overhead.

The other configuration used three LEM descent stages, with the second being used for landing and the third for ascent and TEI.

In total, the Apollo program left behind six ascent stages, six descent stages, three lunar rover vehicles, four Saturn V rocket third stages and a lot of other less interesting objects, including golf balls, soiled diapers and urine bags.