Exploration for gas and oil is underway in the Gambela Region bordering Sudan.

The television program within the film, Galaxy Quest, is set around the starship NSEA Protector, an instrument of the National Space Exploration Administration, which are obviously parodies of the USS Enterprise and Starfleet respectively.

* 2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

After the declaration on the restoration of its full independence on August 21, 1991, Latvia became a member of the United Nations on September 17, 1991, and is a signatory to a number of UN organizations and other international agreements, including Council of Europe, CERCO, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, UNESCO, UNICEF, International Criminal Court, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

* 2007 – Chang ' e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

* ETE: A Python Environment for Tree Exploration This is a programming library to analyze, manipulate and visualize phylogenetic trees.

This is a collection of fifteen selected non-fiction entries that had been published in Analog magazine over the years ; it includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin, including " The Hypersonic Skyhook ", " Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet " ( co-authored with David A. Baker ), " Colonizing the Outer Solar System ", " Terraforming Mars " ( co-authored with Christopher McKay ), and " The Magnetic Sail ".

For example, a written account of some of these debates is available in On to Mars: Colonizing a New World, as a joint article, " Do Indigenous Martian Bacteria have Precedence over Human Exploration?

; Exploration / Enigma: Something unexplained is going on, and the players are sent to find out what it is.

The discovery of copper is owed partly to an American scout, Frederick Russell Burnham, who in 1895 lead and oversaw the massive Northern Territories ( BSA ) Exploration Co. expedition which established for the Western world that major copper deposits existed in Central Africa.

The Shuttle's human transport role is to be replaced by the partially reusable Crew Exploration Vehicle ( CEV ) no later than 2014.

The Exploration Flight Test-1 ( EFT-1 ), an unmanned test flight of Orion's crew module, is planned to be launched in 2014 on a Delta IV Heavy rocket.

Exploration Mission-1 ( EM-1 ) is the unmanned initial launch of SLS, which is planned for 2017.

Exploration Mission-2 ( EM-2 ) is the first manned flight of Orion and SLS and is scheduled for 2019.

Its swashbuckling flavor is very different from that of the " Known World ", closer in atmosphere to that of the Age of Exploration than the fantasy middle-ages / renaissance tone of the Known World.

The first AI in space ( Deep Space 1 ) was developed from Code TI, as is the MAPGEN software that daily plans the activities for the Mars Exploration Rovers, the same core reasoner is used for Ensemble to operate Phoenix Lander, and the planning system for the International Space Station's Solar Arrays.

The NASA Ames Exploration Center is a science museum and education center for NASA.

According to the China Exploration and Research Society, the source of the Yellow River is at 34 ° 29 ' 31. 1 " N, 96 ° 20 ' 24. 6 " E in the Bayan Har Mountains near the eastern edge of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

The formation called Home Plate at Gusev Crater on Mars which was examined by the Mars Exploration Rover ( MER ) Spirit is suspected to be the eroded remains of an ancient and extinct fumarole.

It is featured in the 2006 DVD Walt Disney Legacy Collection Volume 2: Lands of Exploration.

The Portuguese colonial administration granted concessions to Oceanic Exploration Corporation to develop the deposits.

The Vision for Space Exploration sought to implement a sustained and affordable human and robotic program to explore the solar system and beyond ; extend human presence across the solar system, starting with a human return to the Moon by the year 2020, in preparation for human exploration of Mars and other destinations ; develop the innovative technologies, knowledge, and infrastructures both to explore and to support decisions about the destinations for human exploration ; and to promote international and commercial participation in exploration to further U. S. scientific, security, and economic interests.

In pursuit of these goals, the Vision called for the space program to complete the International Space Station by 2010 ; retire the Space Shuttle by 2010 ; develop a new Crew Exploration Vehicle ( later renamed Orion ) by 2008, and conduct its first human spaceflight mission by 2014 ; explore the Moon with robotic spacecraft missions by 2008 and crewed missions by 2020, and use lunar exploration to develop and test new approaches and technologies useful for supporting sustained exploration of Mars and beyond ; explore Mars and other destinations with robotic and crewed missions ; pursue commercial transportation to support the International Space Station and missions beyond low Earth orbit.

According to the first government decree about the Soviet Manned moon programs (' On Work on the Exploration of the Moon and Mastery of Space '), adopted in August 1964, Chelomei was instructed to develop a Moon flyby program with a projected first flight by the end of 1966, and Korolyov was instructed to develop the Moon landing program with a first flight by the end of 1967.

At the same time, he continued to develop mines in Mexico and California and, in 1923, he made another fortune while drilling for oil with the Burnham Exploration Company.

CNPC and PetroChina develop overseas assets through a joint venture, CNPC Exploration & Development Company, which is 50 % owned by PetroChina.

In part because the crater formed during the Deep Impact collision could not be imaged during the initial flyby, on 3 July 2007, NASA approved the New Exploration of Tempel 1 ( or NExT ) mission.

His initial interest in polar exploration developed from reading press reports about the work of local scientists on the first Australian Antarctic Exploration Committee.

* Phase 3: 1974: A single Lunar Orbital Survey Mission was indicated after the Lunar Surface Exploration phase and would be the end of the initial buy of Apollo spacecraft.

The game consists of two phases, the initial Exploration phase and the Haunt phase.

The private multi-faith organization implements the Multifaith Exploration and Exchange Program that is dedicated to the pursuit of understanding between different faiths and religions.

In the Age of Exploration, from the 15th century to the 17th century, European cartographers both copied earlier maps ( some of which had been passed down for centuries ) and drew their own based on explorers ' observations and new surveying techniques.

Since these geographic considerations imply that, not including the hill within, the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built that would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence of an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.

It was with the modern age, the Age of Exploration, that some of the most remarkable thalassocracies emerged.

Since these geographic considerations imply that not including the hill within the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built which would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.

The American space agency NASA intends to be able to launch a manned interplanetary mission to Mars by some time after 2015 under the Vision for Space Exploration.

McMoRan Exploration Company () is a separately traded firm with some shared management with Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. Richard C. Adkerson and James R. Moffett are co-chairmen of McMoRan Exploration.

Exploration was initially conducted to find new whaling grounds, but from the 18th century some scientific exploration took place.

The region is celebrated for the discovery ( 1877 – 78 ) of a great many papyrus manuscripts, some of which are important to the earliest Christian history of Egypt ; they are described in the Hellenic section of the reports of the Egypt Exploration Fund.

During 2003, increasingly fractious e-mails from Walter van de Vijver, Watts ' successor as CEO of Shell Exploration and Production, made it clear that senior executives had been discussing the issues around reserves for some time.

The Exploration Systems Architecture Study ( ESAS ) is the official title of a large-scale, system level study released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) in November 2005 in response to American president George W. Bush's announcement on January 14, 2004 of his goal of returning astronauts to the Moon and eventually Mars — known as the Vision for Space Exploration ( and unofficially as " Moon, Mars and Beyond " in some aerospace circles, though the specifics of a manned " beyond " programme remain vague ).