GRAIL Launch and NASA's Moon-Bound GRAIL Mission

Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:49 pm » by **Malogg**

Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:51 pm » by **Glassjaw667**

I thought this mission was canceled indefinitely? (I admit I haven't been following it)

Wasn't this not launching part of another crazy theory around here or was that ATS? I'm so confused with all these space-related threads and doom theories. I get mixed up.

Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:14 pm » by **Frutty**

malogg wrote:

Nice GGI you made it?

:alien51:

Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:43 pm » by **Malogg**

frutty wrote:
malogg wrote:

Nice GGI you made it?

I do nOt work for fecken NAZI NASA CROUT B@STARDS!

and fecked if I know who made these videos

Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:19 am » by **Malkere**

GRAIL Mission Status Report

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's GRAIL mission to study the moon from crust to core successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Pad SLC-17B at 9:08 a.m. EDT (6:08 a.m. PDT). Mission controllers will await communication in approximately 90 minutes from the lunar duo indicating they have achieved proper orientation and deployed their solar arrays.

"We are on our way, and early indications show everything is looking good," said David Lehman, GRAIL project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We will know more about GRAIL's status in a few hours, after an opportunity to analyze telemetry and poll our mission controllers."

After GRAIL's ride aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket comes to an end, the spacecraft will be on a path that will reach the moon in three-and-a-half months.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, manages the GRAIL mission for NASA. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, is home to the mission's principal investigator, Maria Zuber. The GRAIL mission is part of the Discovery Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Launch management for the mission is the responsibility of NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

More information about GRAIL is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/grail and http://grail.nasa.gov

Sun Sep 11, 2011 5:00 am » by **Iwokeup2009**

X-ray the moon sounds interesting , could prove a lot of conspiracy theories right or wrong.

Sun Sep 11, 2011 5:10 am » by **Shaggietrip**

here is the comment i posted on this video. On VideoFromSpace channel.

this video is really sweet. Although has anyone noticed the names of these crafts and or missions? Plz look into it. Also I was wondering if the satellites are restricted because of the no fly zone soon to be imposed on certain areas over the moon. Will they release all data as fact. Remember [if you are old enough] that impacts created sound waves like a bell. Which reminds me of a song,what was it...fore whom the bell tolls.

I feel I should apologize for my posts tonight they may seem a bit out there but I am blaming the wine.

Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:42 pm » by **Istvan12**

Maybe it is just me, but what is NASA's renewed interest with the moon. After all these long wonderful years being feed the USA working person's taxes and now they are more interested with the moon since the first times they "went" to there.
I also find it very much a "coincidence" that Bollywood just put out a movie of an Apollo mission that "never" happened.

And now they just released those new photo's of all the landing areas of pictures that I am sure my camera on my cell could take better, but I didn't spend billions of dollars on the camera.

And of course the joke of the year goes to the "no fly" zones on the moon .. they still seem to be sporting balls as if they are being funded by the government and think they are the kings of the moon and their word is law. Next NASA will write it in moon stone?

to me all this adds up to something big is going to happen, be it real or government made, but something will happen. or maybe they just want something in a better area to take pictures of YU55 when it flies by.

Other then that .. I thought that liftoff was flawless and very nice to see

and can't wait to see any censored and edited photo's they will get from this.

Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:18 pm » by **Yarblis**

whatever.

Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:44 pm » by **Shaggietrip**

First of NASA's GRAIL Spacecraft Enters Moon Orbit

PASADENA, Calif. – The first of two NASA spacecraft to study the moon in unprecedented detail has entered lunar orbit.

NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft successfully completed its planned main engine burn at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST) today. As of 3 p.m. PST (6 p.m. EST), GRAIL-A is in an orbit of 56 miles by 5,197 miles (90 kilometers by 8,363 kilometers) around the moon that takes approximately 11.5 hours to complete.

"My resolution for the new year is to unlock lunar mysteries and understand how the moon, Earth and other rocky planets evolved," said Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. "Now, with GRAIL-A successfully placed in orbit around the moon, we are one step closer to achieving that goal."

The next mission milestone occurs tomorrow when GRAIL-A's mirror twin, GRAIL-B, performs its own main engine burn to place it in lunar orbit. At 3 p.m. PST (6 p.m. EST) today, GRAIL-B was 30,018 miles (48,309 kilometers) from the moon and closing at a rate of 896 mph (1,442 kilometers per hour). GRAIL-B's insertion burn is scheduled to begin tomorrow, Jan. 1, at 2:05 p.m. PST (5:05 p.m. EST) and will last about 39 minutes.

"With GRAIL-A in lunar orbit we are halfway home," said David Lehman, GRAIL project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Tomorrow may be New Year's everywhere else, but it's another work day around the moon and here at JPL for the GRAIL team."

Once both spacecraft are confirmed in orbit and operating, science work will begin in March. The spacecraft will transmit radio signals precisely defining the distance between them as they orbit the moon in formation. As they fly over areas of greater and lesser gravity caused by both visible features, such as mountains and craters, and masses hidden beneath the lunar surface, the distance between the two spacecraft will change slightly.

Scientists will translate this information into a high-resolution map of the moon's gravitational field. The data will allow scientists to understand what goes on below the lunar surface. This information will increase knowledge of how Earth and its rocky neighbors in the inner solar system developed into the diverse worlds we see today.

JPL manages the GRAIL mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington. The GRAIL mission is part of the Discovery Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft.

Source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20111231.html

For more information about GRAIL, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/main/index.html

Thought I would throw this video in for the conspiracy factor.

:cheers: