Friday, June 19, 2009
Fly me to the moon..
The postponed Space Shuttle Mission STS-127 may have been further delayed until July, but yesterday the more conventional Atlas V rocket successfully launched Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter [LRO] and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite [LCROSS]. LRO is expected to reach the Moon on Tuesday at 5.43am [EDT]. LCROSS and the Centaur rocket will stay attached for a further 4 months when the empty upper stage will be guided on a collision course with a permanently shaded crater at the Moon’s pole on Oct 9. And here’s the stunning launch video.
Pete Baker @ 11:30 AM
It cost too much but it is still fascinating.
The quality of the film is exceptionaly good - it will renew our interest in the moon as place of the imagination.
After the worst drones in the universe visited it in the 1970s - spreading as Lily Tomlin said ‘banality throughout the cosmos’
Posted by on Jun 19, 2009 @ 09:48 PM