exploration

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He then served as head of the national space agency in 2013, overseeing a lunar exploration mission that culminated in China’s first moon landing with an unmanned vehicle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The 2022 Decadal Survey from the National Academies identified it as the highest priority destination for future exploration.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Diamondback held production flat at 505,000 to 510,000 barrels per day and allocated up to $150 million for exploration.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

A pulsing exploration of party culture and collective movement, it's a departure from the tender, introspective ballads on her Mercury Prize-winning debut, Collapsed In Sunbeams and its 2023 follow-up, My Soft Machine.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

This system is 1,500 light-years distant, an objective for human exploration in the far future.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan