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GRAIL Prelaunch News Conference |
 Aug 25 2011, 04:24 PM
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NASA Sets GRAIL Launch Coverage Events
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-264 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's GRAIL spacecraft is set to launch to the moon aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket on Sept. 8, 2011, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. There are two instantaneous (one-second) launch windows at 8:37:06 a.m. and 9:16:12 a.m. EDT (5:37:06 a.m. and 6:16:12 a.m. EDT). The launch period extends through Oct. 19. The launch times occur approximately 4 minutes earlier each day. GRAIL Prelaunch News Conference A prelaunch news conference will be held at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Press Site on Sept. 6, at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT). Edit: Apparently the news conference is already over. This link should be the recorded conference. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16865733 Jack My Ice Hunters as of 8/19 677 found in 1626 images |
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Aug 25 2011, 06:11 PM
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-------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Sep 8 2011, 09:09 AM
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The GRAIL pre-launch news conference (of Sept. 6) and the GRAIL Science briefing can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p18j_vmIyso...nel_video_title and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jje78j9E6Hw...nel_video_title |
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