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NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory -B Spacecraft Successfully Executes First Flight Path Correction Maneuver
NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-B spacecraft successfully executed its first flight path correction maneuver Wednesday, Oct. 5. The rocket burn helped refine the spacecraft’s trajectory as it travels from Earth to the...
NASA Asks Children to Rename Grail Spacecraft
NASA has a class assignment for U.S. students: help the agency give the twin spacecraft headed to orbit around the moon new names. How People Arrived Here: grail spacecraft
NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory Moon Mission Begins Final Launch Preparations
NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission to study the moon is in final launch preparations for a scheduled September 8 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. How People Arrived Here: grail mission, laboratory...
NASA’s GRAIL Moon Twins are Joined to Their Booster
NASA’s lunar-bound GRAIL twins have been mated to their Titan II launch vehicle at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex. The 15-mile (25-kilometer) trip from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., is the last move...
Moon Express Launches ‘The Moon is Me’ Campaign
Moon Express, a Google Lunar X PRIZE contender, has announced that it has launched a public education and outreach campaign called “The Moon is Me“, designed to foster public awareness and support of lunar exploration as vital to life on Earth...
3-d Imaging of the Moon Moves a Step Closer to Reality
On Sunday, July 17, the moon will acquire its second new companion in less than a month. That’s when the second of two probes built by the University of California, Berkeley, and part of NASA’s five-satellite THEMIS mission will drop into a permanent...
NASA’s New J-2X Rocket Engine Ready to Test
NASA’s new J-2X rocket engine, which could power the upper stage of the nation’s future heavy-lift launch vehicle, is ready for its first round of testing. The fully assembled engine was installed Saturday in the A-2 Test Stand at the agency’s...
Collision Revealing Moon’s Secrets
Scientists led by Brown University are offering the first detailed explanation of the crater formed when a NASA rocket and spacecraft slammed into the Moon last October and information about the composition of the lunar soil at the poles that never has...
