I bet they would allow another tourist flight if someone coughed up the $100 million for a circumlunar flight that they've proposed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
China's first lunar probe, Chang'e-1, successfully completed its first braking at perilune and entered the moon's orbit Monday morning, becoming China's first circumlunar satellite. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Roger Launius, senior curator for the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C said "Learning what China needs to know about conducting a lunar trip, probably a circumlunar trip, on three missions seems a bit thin to me," Launius told SPACE.com. ❋ Zoe Brain (2008)
It's a near-term market; we can service it now, from $100,000 suborbital flights to $100 million circumlunar flights, and we can reinvest our profits into building better and better transportation systems, and those same transportation systems 50 to 100 years from now will enable us to open up, to develop space. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A service module, providing propulsion, electricity, radio, and other equipment would add at least 1,800 kg to this mass for the circumlunar mission. ❋ Zoe Brain (2006)
The beauty of it is we use the same technology, the same Soyuz spacecraft, a same ten-day visit to the space station, and we simply launch an extra fuel module to give it enough boost to do a circumlunar mission on the last part of the flight. ❋ Unknown (2006)
We're in negotiations now with probably the first two people who will participate on the first private circumlunar mission. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Eventually, when NASA decided to make Apollo 8 the circumlunar mission, Apollo 9 became Apollo 8, and Apollo 8, scheduled as the first flight to go with the LM, became Apollo 9. ❋ James R. Hansen (2005)
Data from the circumlunar flight of Apollo 8 left the mascon effects in question. ❋ James R. Hansen (2005)
We did not have all that figured out at the time the circumlunar decision was made, but we sure had the motivation to get it done. ❋ James R. Hansen (2005)
Now, had the lunar module been available on schedule, the idea of a circumlunar flight probably would never have come up. ❋ James R. Hansen (2005)
In the original schedule that Slayton in April 1967 had first outlined to the Apollo astronauts, there was to be no such circumlunar flight. ❋ James R. Hansen (2005)
In lunar orbit, the crew tried to settle an informal controversy that had arisen from the two previous circumlunar flights. ❋ James R. Hansen (2005)
Inside NASA, the intrepid move of a circumlunar flight met with significantly less than universal acceptance. ❋ James R. Hansen (2005)
As the backup commander for Apollo 8, Armstrong had spent every moment of the last two and half days deeply involved with the details of the circumlunar flight. ❋ James R. Hansen (2005)
