The Space Launch System will be NASA's first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago.
In August, lawmakers in Beirut rushed the country's first oil-exploration law through its normally snarled parliament.
On our first day of exploration, we boarded small skiffs and headed up the Tahuayo tributary in search of wildlife.
What if it had been a first-person exploration and adventure game?
Showing its yellow streak, Exxon in recent months decided to pull out of Poland after coming up dry on its first two shale exploration wells there.
Forbes actually did a story when Aspen Exploration was first discovered to be a scam.
It attempts to capture the challenge and exploration of first-person dungeon crawlers, but it also incorporates several elements that feel more akin to tabletop RPGs.
While it is early days for Australian shale gas, but that should not be seen as a negative for investors with an eye on emerging energy sectors, especially one with recognized geological appeal and the first signs of successful exploration.
Large oil and natural gas were first discovered in the North Sea during the oil and gas exploration boom that followed the first oil shock in the early '70s.
"This is different from the first high tide of space exploration, " he says.
First they ask what space exploration has to do with my philosophy of service and selflessness or my interest in mystical spirituality.
But topping the digital list was Deus Ex: Human Revolution, an intricate, exploration-based first person RPG that Eidos:Montreal had been making for four years.
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Besides Indonesia, one is Papua New Guinea, which said this month it would soon launch its first round of bidding for exploration licences in six years, and approve a proposed pipeline to export gas to Australia.
It's a tremendous step, the first of many as we get into exploration of the Solar System, back to the Moon and on to Mars.
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The first of them should be two vehicles known as Mars exploration rovers.
First, offshore Israel remains in the early stages of exploration.
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To condense his subject into manageable chunks, Mr Winchester uses Shakespeare's seven ages of man as a structure: the infant is a metaphor for man's first interest in the ocean, the schoolboy represents its exploration, and so on.
That's the first step that will really lay the groundwork for a whole exploration of private space flight.
In the first six months of the year, the company drilled 12 exploration wells which resulted in six discoveries.
"Without the Mars rock, we might not have Curiosity today, " said Hubbard, whose job as the "first Mars czar" was to plan the next decade of exploration.
Our second goal is to develop and test a new space craft, the crew exploration vehicle, by 2008, and to conduct the first manned mission no later than 2014.
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"We think that the future may be sooner than some of us are considering, " Robert Hunter, president of ASRC Energy Services, which led the first major field study in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay with BP Alaska Exploration and the Department of Energy, told Petroleum News.
Elizabeth, the young woman Booker is sent to rescue (or abduct) for reasons and employers initially unknown, appears after the first sequence of combat, and her introduction is followed by a lengthy period of peaceful exploration, as the player gets accustomed to her presence.
In other words, human exploration of the solar system does not have to be fixed doggedly on the moon first and Mars later.
One of the first announcements made by Mr Stoltenberg's government was that it will push ahead with oil exploration in the Barents Sea, in spite of vocal opposition from environmentalists.
Chevron derives most of its exploration and production profits abroad, where it also saw a slight decline in the first two months of Q1 compared to the fourth quarter of 2012.
Dr Ralph Cordey, who is EADS Astrium's head of exploration and business, told BBC News that the concept of a gravity tug was actually first mooted by two Nasa astronauts, Edward Lu and Stanley Love, a few years ago.
The first issues started to appear in 2011, namely: Applied Water Science, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, Applied Petrochemical Research, Applied Nanoscience, and 3Biotech.
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