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/

 

[dig deep]

Littering, are we not ?

 

[Channel Hopper]

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

 

[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

 

[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