phases

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Nasa's Moon Base programme — unveiled in May 2026 by the agency's administrator, Jared Isaacman — sets out three phases:

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

The new Terminal 2 location will open in phases over the next two years, with full-service dining coming this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

It is also alleged variable pricing through various phases had allowed Fifa to raise prices for about 90 of the 104 fixtures by an average of 34%.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

"For this work we focused initially on deposits that were formed after the main phases of breakup of Earth's big continents," said Gibson.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

No competent astronomer defended the traditional Ptolemaic system once they had heard that Venus had a full set of phases; you had to be an ill-informed philosopher to do so.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton