Lunar in a sentence

The list of types covered follow-on lunar exploration to include H lunar landings, I for lunar orbital survey missions, and J for extended-stay lunar landings.

To make it possible for a Chinese national to walk on the moon, China will develop a new spacecraft called the “Lunar Lander”, which will be propelled into lunar orbit by Long March-10, and dock with the new spaceship in lunar orbit.

This interior view of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module shows Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot, during the lunar landing mission.

Three days later it entered lunar orbit and the lunar landing vehicle, manned by Stafford and Cernan, separated from the Apollo Command and Service Module and descended into a lunar orbit at an altitude of 47,000 feet above the moon.

Lunar Society The Lunar Society : these dates indicate the year in which Darwin became friends with these people, who, in turn, became members of the Lunar Society.

Mission commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit.

The Apollo Lunar Module ascended from the lunar surface to lunar orbit in a single stage.

The calendar year features twelve lunar months of twenty-nine or thirty days, with an intercalary lunar month added periodically to synchronize the twelve lunar cycles with the longer solar year.

The crew stayed an extra day in lunar orbit taking photographs, for a total lunar surface stay of 31 and a half hours and a total time in lunar orbit of eighty-nine hours.

The lunar year consists of 30-day and 29-day lunar months, generally alternating, with an embolismic month added periodically to bring the lunar cycle into line with the solar cycle.

The next day, the inhabitants gave Columbus and his crew the food they desired. citation Lunar eclipse in culture Several cultures have myths related to lunar eclipses or allude to the lunar eclipse as being a good or bad omen.

ESA navigation system engineer Pietro Giordano said there is an “importance and urgency” to figure out a common lunar time that all lunar systems and Moon missions could refer to.

Four more lunar missions are planned for 2023, including a Japanese lunar lander and a commercial spacecraft by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines.

Its first lunar probe, the Chandrayaan-1, orbited the moon and was then deliberately crash-landed onto the lunar surface in 2008.

The attack followed a Lunar New Year celebration Saturday night in the heart of the city’s downtown core, where red lanterns decorated the streets for the Lunar New Year festivities.

The lander and the rover, with a mission life of one Lunar day (14 Earth days), have scientific payloads to carry out experiments on the lunar surface.

The Lander will have the capability to soft land at a specified lunar site and deploy the Rover which will carry out in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar surface during the course of its mobility.

The shooting took place as people were celebrating Lunar New Year's Eve in a predominantly Asian area that hosts one of southern California's largest Lunar New Year's events.

Lunar eclipses are more viewer friendly as the Earth casts a much larger shadow on the Moon, and anyone on the night side of Earth will be able to see a lunar eclipse when it occurs.

On average, there are about two lunar eclipses each year — though some years can have one, none, or three lunar eclipses.