Moon launch LRO/LCROSS

Channel Hopper

Forgot to post about this last week, the successful launch of LRO and LCROSS

Another high impact device, not bunging a fridge into a comet, but the complete final boost stage of the rocket, plus the set of instruments measuring the former, to be smashed into the moon, mid-October.

Apparently the resultant impact could be seen with very powerful binoculars, or a small telescope from the Earth.


LRO stays in orbit to plot the surface, looking for favourable landing sites and potential valuable resources for the next stage of manned exploration.

_http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001994/

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"

dig deep

Littering, are we not ?

Channel Hopper

Fly-tipping, on a big scale, not to mention potentially hazardous for the inhabitants.

Attached Thumbnails

 

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"

Channel Hopper

Now successfully reversed (arse to tit as it were) so the big lump of metal can hit the moon first.

Some animation and piccys using the brilliant STK software.

_http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/lunarswingby/index.html

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"

dig deep

If I was 10 than I know what I would like to be.

A lunar caretaker

We made some steps from the first moon landing, did we not ?

Hope the future will give us all more space and some Mars harvesting.

The s ky is out future, we only have some 2 biljons years to go before the sun will say good-bye in a flaming ending.

Hurry up guys