Sentence examples for separate lunar from inspiring English sources

Send a separate lunar module down to the moon while the spaceship itself orbited?

Rather than sending astronauts directly from Earth to the moon's surface, NASA's engineers decided that the Apollo program should build a separate lunar lander, which greatly reduced the size of the rocket needed for the mission.

They will bid farewell to CE5-T1 on the way to the moon and conduct separate lunar flyby experiments.

You also need a separate lunar lander with its own gas tank and, finally, enough reserves to return home.

Stafford, Young and Cernan paved the way for future moon landings by piloting a separate lunar module to within 9 miles of moon's surface and back.

In Curaçao, over three separate years and over five separate lunar cycles in the months of August and September, we observed D. cylindrus colonies spawning on nights two to five after the full moon, from 110 to 147 minutes after sunset.

In the new research, published online today in Nature Geoscience, geochemists led by Junjun Zhang at the University of Chicago in Illinois, together with a colleague at the University of Bern in Switzerland, looked at titanium isotopes in 24 separate samples of lunar rock and soil.

A live internet broadcast showed the rocket as it headed out over the Pacific Ocean before it separated from the lunar explorer over Chile about 45 minutes later.

On 14th November, 2008, the probe was separated from Chandrayaan-1 lunar craft at an altitude of about 100 km and, as it descended towards the Moon's surface, it took nearly 3000 pictures of the Moon's surface features and 650 mass spectra of lunar atmospheric constituents, covering latitudinal range of 20°N to the south pole, during lunar day.

The final design is a flexible lander with a side-mounted minimal ascent stage and a separate stage to perform lunar orbit insertion capable of supporting the outpost crew exchange, sortie, and cargo missions.

I'm interested in what was going through your mind as the lunar lander separated from the command module and you see it getting smaller and smaller in the window as it passes out of sight and descends towards the Moon.