This blog follows the progress of the LRO mission through Integration and Testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and launch site processing at KSC\Astrotech. Its purpose is to enable communication to the entire LRO Team about the status of ongoing activities.

LRO was launched June 18th, 2009 at 5:32pm EDT from KSC. This BLOG will follow the progress of the mission as LRO travels to the Moon and establishes orbit around it.

This BLOG will be periodically updated during LRO's early mission but as the nominal mission unfolds the official NASA LRO website and the LRO Science Instrument's own websites will evolve into a more interesting sources of LRO science results as postings appear there first and LRO engineering and operations (source of this site) will become increasingly routine.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Mission Rehearsal #1, TC-198, is underway

After some configuration problems and a couple of false starts, we managed to actually get into Mission Rehearsal #1, TC-198, around 8:45 AM this morning (12/15/2008). As of 10:40 AM, the rehearsal is going smoothly. The rehearsal will run for the next 24 hours.

This should be a great time for my learned colleagues, on the LRO team to post their innermost thoughts the meaning of life and why guitars have 6 or 12 strings, while a banjo has only 5.

"Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"
"Oh Bullwinkle, that trick never works!"
"I've just gotta get a new hat!"
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)