Sentence examples for exploration flight from inspiring English sources

The unmanned $370m£235m5missionion, formally known as Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), will last about four and a half hours.

The mission, known as Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1), brought Orion to an altitude of 3,600 miles above the Earth's surface – more than 15 times farther than the International Space Station's orbit.

In December, 2014 NASA completed Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1), launching an uncrewed Orion atop a Delta IV-Heavy rocket to an altitude of 3,600 miles for two orbits around the planet.

Because the SLS will not be available until at least 2017, the Exploration Flight Test, or EFT-1, of Orion in 2014 will have to use an existing heavy-lift rocket.

Because Exploration Flight Test-1 will not include astronauts, however, the full LAS will not be activated.

During its four-hour trip, titled "Exploration Flight Test-1," Orion will travel 3,600 miles, 15 times farther away from Earth than the International Space Station.

US-led coalition jets will provide security over the land 'when needed', carrying out 'attacking or exploration' flights," sources said.

As mail routes were opened and exploration flights carried out, records were set for transoceanic crossings and the pieces were all in place for an airline industry to take off, both over the then British Empire and continental land masses.

The aerial photographic operations were divided into three parts: (1) flights over excavations already in progress, such as Persepolis and Rayy; (2) aerial documentation and mapping of sites under consideration; and (3) reconnaissance and exploration flights over archaeologically unknown areas of Iran.

It is well known that pigeons can obtain this knowledge (if actually necessary) while living at their home site in an aviary (Figs. 3.7, 3.8 ) and hence while they cannot determine the compass alignments of increase and decrease of possibly relevant variables during exploration flights around their loft.

There's no competition, per se, just exploration and flight.