Sentence examples for moon to test from inspiring English sources

The agency might still make a visit to an asteroid or the Moon to test the Mars hardware, but those destinations would otherwise be bypassed.

The lunar exploration phase III mission is a part of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation's lunar exploration program that will perform a soft-landing and sample return from the Moon to test the key technologies that are required for human lunar missions.

It plans to send another rover to the planet in 2020 to follow up on the work by the Curiosity, and aims to start a series of missions in 2018 near the moon to test human capacity for life off Earth.

Bezos has already proposed a public-private partnership between Blue Origin and NASA to create a moon lander to test the possibilities of lunar manufacturing and habitation.

The craft will use a radio-controlled rover to transmit images and dig into the moon's surface to test samples.

Short of flying a crew to the moon, the only way to test things out in lunar gravity is by hopping onto NASA's adapted DC-9 aircraft that can fly a roller-coaster path so the researchers did just that.

"The moon is a good place to test out the technology for a Mars mission, like life-support systems and transport vehicles...

At just about 2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Chang'e-5 Test 1 (CE5-T1) spacecraft lifted off aboard a Long March rocket for an unmanned dash to the moon and back that aims to test technology for a sample return mission planned for 2017 and, a decade from now, possibly landing astronauts on the moon.

They assumed that if the Soviets wanted to beat NASA to a moon landing, they would have to test engines, stages (different parts of a rocket that are shed once their fueling power is exhausted) and spacecraft all by certain dates, and practice things like rendezvous and docking i.e., hooking up two spacecraft in orbit.

The moon is also a good place to test technologies needed to explore other, more distant worlds.

Years after the initial experiment, the scientists were drinking in a pub during a full moon and came up with the idea of going back to the data to test for correlations with moon cycles.