Plan for Quick Mission In July, Dr. Stern said, the panel finally winnowed the proposals down to the so-called fast flyby mission involving two 330-pound spacecraft.

Starwisp would not slow down at the target star, performing a high-speed flyby mission instead.

Many of their targets were tiny chondrites only a few meters across, too insignificant to have been located and named in any flyby mission, but easy enough for the Khedive to ingest, crush, and process.

After the successful U.S. Apollo 8 manned flight around the Moon, the Soviet manned flyby missions lost political urgency.

The program should include progressively more sophisticated missions to the near planets as well as multiple-planet flyby missions to the outer planets taking advantage of the favorable relative positions of the outer planets in the late 1970's.

In February 2013, Dennis Tito's Inspiration Mars Foundation announced that they were going to send a two-person crew - a man and a woman - to a 501 days free-return flyby mission to Mars and back.

Zond 6, a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned moon-flyby spacecraft, was launched on a lunar flyby mission from a parent satellite (68-101B) in Earth parking orbit.

The injury forced him out of training for those lunar flyby missions.

Although only 25% of Halley's surface was imaged in detail during the flyby missions, the images revealed an extremely varied topography, with hills, mountains, ridges, depressions, and at least one crater.

Five years after the early Able space probe missions ended, NASA Ames Research Center used the Pioneer name for a new series of missions, initially aimed at the inner solar system, before the bold flyby missions to Jupiter and Saturn.