Sentence examples for interstellar spacecraft from inspiring English sources

After 35 years of travel, NASA's oldest interstellar spacecraft is now some 20 billion kilometres from the Sun.

Spice is a drug whose many useful properties include the induction of a kind of enhanced space-time perception in pilots of interstellar spacecraft.

David Neyland, Darpa's director of tactical technology, is at pains to point out that the goal of his project is not an interstellar spacecraft, only a business plan for designing one.

Sagan was the chairman of a committee that selected the recordings included on gold-plated disks carried into space by the two Voyager interstellar spacecraft, in 1977: Beethoven, Chuck Berry, greetings in fifty-five languages.

A new research program run by my organisation, Icarus Interstellar, is bringing in scientists from around the world to aid in the design, development and construction of the first interstellar spacecraft in our lifetime.

For example, there is that famous quote from Carl Sagan, "We are made of starstuff". I add to that: "We are made of starstuff concentrated by Earth". If you think about it, if you are out in an interstellar spacecraft and you need some silicon to make computer chips, you can't just scoop it up as you go through, because it is so dilute.

(See interstellar medium). Spacecraft sample-return missions to comets and asteroids should provide scientists on Earth the opportunity to study even better-preserved material from the birth of the solar system.

But even with that limitation, there are hundreds of speculative concepts for interstellar passenger spacecraft floating around, across a wide spectrum of technical feasibility.

Data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft reveal that neutral interstellar atoms are flowing into the solar system from a different direction than previously observed.

The keystoning apparatus cuts a picokeystone out of NASA's Stardust spacecraft interstellar dust collector at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

If that is confirmed, these tiny flecks of rock will represent the first specks of interstellar dust a spacecraft has ever returned to Earth.