Nasa Launch of Twin Spacecraft on 9/10 related to the Charcoal painting?
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Rising from fire and smoke, NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission launches atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 Heavy rocket. Leaving from Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the spacecraft launched at 9:08:52 EDT Sept.10, 2011.. CREDIT: NASA/Darrell McCall |
This story was updated at 2:06 p.m. EDT.
Two identical space probes are on their way to the moon, after launching today (Sept. 10) on NASA’s newest lunar science mission aimed at unlocking mysteries of the moon that are hidden beneath its surface.
Less than two hours after their launch, the twin Grail-A and Grail-B probes were deployed, setting them en route to their lunar destination.”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 (JPL) 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.” [Photos: NASA Launches Grail Probes to the Moon]
The $496 million Grail mission (short for Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory) will closely study the interior of the moon, from crust to core, and will map the moon’s gravitational field in unprecedented detail. The three-month mission is expected to help scientists better understand the composition of Earth’s natural satellite and its evolutionary history since it was formed 4.6 billion years ago.
Next stop: Moon
The two Grail spacecraft blasted off this morning on an unmanned Delta 2 rocket at 9:08 a.m. EDT (1308 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, after windy weather and a technical glitch delayed the mission’s launch by two days and threatened to again. A first try earlier today at 8:29 a.m. EDT (1229 GMT) was called off due to high-altitude winds, but weather conditions improved, and the agency was able to take advantage of the day’s second launch opportunity.
Today’s launch is the last planned launch of a Delta 2 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s launch complex. The workhorse rocket has had an illustrious career, which includes being the vehicle that carried the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity into orbit on their journey to the Red Planet.
About 80 minutes after the launch, the Grail spacecraft began separating from their Delta 2 rocket, an event captured by a video camera mounted to the booster. The camera beamed down stunning live views of the Grail probes as they pulled away from their rocket. A bright blue Earth served as the backdrop. [See a photo of the Grail separation here]
CREDIT: NASA TV
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Perhaps those twin rockets are on another mission besides heading toward the moon. Who knows……..it may be an attempt to destroy the coming of Elenin or as that one movie, depicting a black president, referred to it by the code word “Messiah”?