Upon this new year NASA has begun a new adventure....or possibly revisiting an old one. Mission to the Moon
The cruise to the moon took 3 1/2 months and covered 2.5 million miles...alot longer than the Apollo back in 1969, which was a mere 3 days. Over the New Years weekend a pair of NASA spacecraft arrived back to back to their destinations in the first mission devoted to studying lunar gravity.
The moon and it's phases fascinate me, I find it beautiful. On New Years Eve spaceship "Grail-A" flew over the south pole, fired it's engine and dropped into lunar orbit, while it's twin "Grail-B" did the same the following day. Data collection will not begin until March and the trip is slated to end in June.
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