Showing posts with label NASA Returning to the Moon with First Lunar Launch in a Decade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA Returning to the Moon with First Lunar Launch in a Decade. Show all posts
Friday, June 19, 2009
NASA Returning to the Moon with First Lunar Launch in a Decade
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will relay more information about the lunar environment than any other previous mission to the moon.The orbiter, known as LRO, separated from the Atlas V rocket carrying it and a companion mission, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing
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