Sentence examples for lunar flight from inspiring English sources

With seven astronauts per lunar flight, the cost per person to the moon would be around $700,000.

The two Russians had taken a significant step toward lunar flight, the space leaders felt, but not necessarily a decisive one.

This is the film about the crippled lunar flight of 1970 that gave us two of the most iconic lines of our culture: "Houston, we have a problem" and "failure is not an option".

The Russian achievement consisted of a rendezvous in orbit of the entire company of the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra, their lunar flight, their descent to the surface of the moon, their exceptionally sensitive rendering of Prokofieff's Fifth Symphony, their safe return to the mother ship, & their subsequent landing in a cornfield outside Odessa.

After a discussion of the characteristics of lunar flight trajectory, a method of designing standard flight trajectory is suggested that satisfies the constraints.

As the first orbit in the lunar flight, the CE-5T1 injected transfer orbit is crucial to the consequence of rocket vehicle launch mission and the probe's subsequent midway orbital manoeuvre.

They tested the guidance and control systems and the restarting capability of the rocket engines for future lunar flights.

They performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space, their Gemini linking with an unmanned Agena in an essential test for later operations on lunar flights.

Some readers may feel the narrative does not really lift off until it comes to the lunar flights, particularly the Apollo 8 Christmas mission in lunar orbit, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's first landing on Apollo 11 and the near-loss of Apollo 13.

Because fuel cells have been used on Apollo lunar flights as well as on all other U.S. orbital manned space missions (e.g., those of Gemini and the space shuttle), it is evident that all three requirements can be met reliably.

A range of applications were considered for Advanced Gemini missions, including military flights, space station crew and logistics delivery, and lunar flights.