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Student Alert: GRAIL Naming Contest – Essay Deadline November 11

September 29, 2011

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Student Alert ! – Here’s your once in a lifetime chance to name Two NASA robots speeding at this moment to the Moon on a super science mission to map the lunar gravity field. They were successfully launched from the Earth [...]

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GRAIL Lunar Blastoff Gallery

September 13, 2011

Check out our gallery of more thrilling launch photos of NASA’s twin GRAIL spacecraft departing Earth on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 9:08 a.m. EDT from Pad 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Although GRAIL’s liftoff was delayed a few days by excessively high upper level winds, it was well worth the wait [...]

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GRAIL Twins Awesome Launch Videos – A Journey to the Center of the Moon

September 11, 2011

Video caption: NASA’s twin GRAIL spacecraft blast off atop a Delta II Heavy booster at 9:08 a.m. EDT on Saturday, September 10, 2011 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to explore the moon in unprecedented detail. Be sure to check out these awesome launch videos showing the Delta II Heavy rocket blasting off with [...]

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NASA launches Twin Lunar Probes to Unravel Moons Core

September 10, 2011

NASA renewed its focus on ground breaking science today with the thunderous blastoff of a pair of lunar bound spacecraft that will map the moons interior with unparalled precision and which will fundamentally alter our understanding of how the moon and other rocky bodies in our solar system – including Earth – formed and evolved [...]

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GRAIL Unveiled for Lunar Science Trek — Launch Reset to Sept. 10

September 9, 2011

NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) moon mapping twins and the mighty Delta II rocket that will blast the high tech physics experiment to space on a lunar science trek were magnificently unveiled in the overnight darkness in anticipation of a liftoff that had originally been planned for the morning of Sept. 8. Excessively [...]

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