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Google Moon!

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Today the LRO / LCROSS mission blasted off from the Cape. LRO will map the moon so that Google Moon has some good imagery for us, and LCROSS will drive the spent rocket motor section into the moon at maximum ramming speed so we can all watch on Earth when it goes [pow!!] into the polar region of our nearest solar system object.
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Ok, I made some of that up. Before today I never heard or Google Moon, but the folks at Google have been working on it, and LRO, who’s real mission is to find some cool landing spots for future manned missions, will indeed provide good data to Google Moon. And LCROSS will look for evidence of water at the polar areas of the moon.
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It was cool watching the launch on NASA TV today. They had a camera looking down and fed real time video during the launch. It’s amazing that by the time the rocket assembly had pitched to the point that the horizon was visible in the field of view, only a few minutes, the sky was already black.
 
The pictures they are using now honestly look like they were from the Apollo missions. probably not though.
 
Yea!! Going back to the moon baby! Thanks for the info!:wavey:


I really cannot understand those that say a manned space flight program back to the moon (Aries) is a waste of money.

Those that say well.. we are in a recession... money needed for other programs.


Humanity's destiny is tied to space.

The possibilities of Helium-3 must be explored... and the moon program will give us vital experience and testing for the next manned program after that.... to Mars!

GO NASA!!:USA-flag:
 
Isn't there an add-on for MSFS that converts the scenery from Earth to the Moon? In which case, it also sounds like more scenery for Tileproxy.... :running:

-James
 
Yeah that would be for FS9. Misho Katulic created it.... amazing work as I got to see it in pre-release form. As soon as we get the HD stuff.. I am sure he might have a looksee at doing something for FSX.
 
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