Posts Tagged ‘LRO’

Protecting Apollo sites from future visiting vehicles under NASA evaluation

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

As NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) produced the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites, NASA managers are working on internal plans to protect the “heritage sites” from potential damage from future visiting spacecraft – such as the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP) vehicles – listing a [...]

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NASA Successfully Launches LRO/LCROSS for Return to the Moon

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

An Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and sister payload Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) has launched from complex 41 at Cape Canaveral on Thursday evening. Both its payload passengers were successfully sent on their journey to the moon.

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