Mission Rehearsal 5 Completed!

The LRO Mission Operations Team completed Mission Rehearsal 5 last evening. After 5 days of round the clock operations, the Ops team did a great job successfully getting LRO to the moon. Congratulations to everyone!

Also last night, Altas successfully launched the WGS payload. Now, they are out of our way.

These were some of the last major hurdles we had left and now they are behind us. We just have to get through the final push....

“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.” Dave Barry

Fairing Cleaned and Spell Checked

The LRO fairing has completed repair of the logo and contamination inspection. It has been moved to the spin bay for further processing. LRO is tying up a few loose ends before getting ready for launch configuration starting in a week.

Cross your fingers that WGS launches tonight!

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.” A. A. Milne

MR#5 continues

All is well with Mission Rehearsal #5, now beginning Thursday, day 3. We are (simulated) 275,000 km away from the Earth, cruising to the moon without incident.

Mission Rehearsal # 5 Ongoing

LRO is 2 hours from launch during our 5 day Launch and Early Mission Rehearsal. The MOC will fly the Orbiter (at KSC plugged into the Dynamic Simulator) to the moon. Up through Launch and initial acquisition LRO control resides at KSC with the LRO launch team and after separation (simulated) from the Centaur the MOC at GSFC assumes control.

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)