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18. June 2009 | 23:45LRO/LCROSS Ready for Launch to the Moon
NASA is going back to the Moon today! The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and a piggyback mission called the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) are at the launch pad, ready to blast off on an Atlas V today (Thursday June 18), with launch windows at 5:12 p.m., 5:22 p.m. […] (News Source: Universe Today - 14:31:37)
LRO/LCROSS Launch Day Arrives
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite are set to lift off together aboard an Atlas V rocket today at 5:12 p.m. EDT. Two additional launch opportunities also are available at 5:22 p.m. and 5:32 p.m. (News Source: SpaceRef - 15:36:14)
LRO/LCROSS–Visiting the Moon “the hard way”
Pat Duggins Senior News Analyst pduggins@wmfe.org June 18, 2009– LCROSS and its booster rocket are both supposed to crash land on the Moon. NASA wants to create two plumes of lunar dust to see if there’s water ice hidden in craters. The blasts may be visible from Earth. It’s not the first time man made objects have struck the lunar surface. Once the Apollo astronauts finished each moon … (News Source: WMFE Orlando - 19:17:54)
Mapping The Moon — Diviner Aboard LRO
Instrument To Look For Signs Of … Ice NASA is scheduled to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, Thursday, and one of the instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, will make the first global survey of the temperature of the lunar surface. (News Source: The Aero-News Network - 09:15:08)
NASA Prepared For Return To The Moon
Image 2: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, rolled aboard their Atlas V rocket to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida yesterday morning in preparation for launch today. LRO is scheduled for a one-year exploration mission at a polar orbit of about 31 miles, or 50 kilometers, the closest any … (News Source: redOrbit - 18:07:01)
LRO/LCROSS Gives Up Launch Date for STS-127
It’s a crowded dance floor and someone had to step aside. Because of Saturday’s launch delay for STS-127, the shuttle and the upcoming dual mission to the moon - the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) - were both vying to launch from Kennedy Space Center on […] (News Source: Universe Today - 18:31:43)
NASA counting down to moon probe launch
Washington - NASA was in the final countdown Thursday before launching a dual moon mission intended to pave the way for humans to return to the moon. Launch was set for 2112 from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, where the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) … (News Source: EARTHtimes.org - 19:42:18)
Nasa heads back to the moon
WASHINGTON - NASA is set to blast off probes Thursday on a landmark lunar exploration mission to scout water sources and landing sites in anticipation of leading man back to the moon. The US space agency, hoping to send astronauts to Earth’s natural satellite by 2020 for the first visit since 1972, announced it is on course to launch the dual LRO and LCROSS missions atop an Atlas V rocket from … (News Source: Straits Times - 11:55:56)
Lunar Exploration Missions Roll to Pad for Thursday Launch
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, rolled aboard their Atlas V rocket to the launch pad. (News Source: SpaceRef - 19:36:14)
Lunar Exploration Missions Roll to Pad for Thursday Launch
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, rolled aboard their Atlas V rocket to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Wednesday morning in preparation for launch on Thursday. (News Source: redOrbit - 21:07:09)
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