LRO Enters Orbit Around the Moon

Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT on June 23.

A series of four engine burns through June 27 will finalize LRO's initial orbit. During this phase, each of its seven instruments is checked out and brought online. LRO Project Manager Craig Tooley reports that LEND and CRaTER are already online and working well.

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[fireking9934]

i hoe the LRO gets a picture of the flag so the hoaxers shut up once and for all

[ozzythewise]

Yes we did go, and denying it is pretty ignorant in insulting to all the people who worked on these incredible projects. The reason we didn't go back was because people lost interest after apollo 11 and so the government basically stopped funding the program (going to the moon ain't your typical road trip, its really expensive) which is why they also stopped at apollo 17 (suppose to go to 20). Also we have done other things in the mean time (skylab, mir, ISS, mars rovers, new horizons etc etc)

[DVAFP]

the only picture i've seen so far of LRO was a photo being zoomed in gradually every 3 seconds until they change it to a green and red picture that we cant see shit to hide the pixels and not let everyone know that its a photo and not video.

you can see it on nasatv

[summerstarsful1]

This is Cosmic Vandalism. Stop it NOW. Mankind will reap the negative repercussions.

[SirMildredPierce]

Why haven't we gone back? Well, NASA has only so much money, and there really isn't all that much going for the moon.. not that much great science to be done.. The little money NASA gets is much better spent on things like Hubble and Cassini which have provided us with a wealth of information about the universe around us. If NASA had the budget the military does, I'm sure we would have gone back, but NASA only gets about 15 billion bucks a year, that's the price of about 30 F-22 Raptors.

[SirMildredPierce]

"pls tell me the truth. did human ever landed on the moon? or is it just fake? if it is fake why they do that? if it is true why they didnt landed on the moon again now days."

Without a doubt the Apollo missions were real, we really went. Hundreds of hours of video, thousands of photos, hundreds of thousands of pages of documents attest to the reality. The LRO pics show everything exactly where it should be.

[jlan12]

Then they'll complain that LRO is a hoax. There is no convincing those people.

[WatchingViking]

i wanna see the apollo landing sites, the LEM, car, flags etc.

fun stuff... even more amazing to be walking around up there :P

[winterstellar]

*the fifties*

[winterstellar]

80sIndulge. The reason they stopped going to the Moon was that the russians gave up and accepted that the americans had won the space race. They had been competing ever since fifties. And in America most ordinary people thought that there were much more important things to spend money on than going to the Moon. The moon-missions were extremely expensive. Cheers! : )