Saturday, January 16, 2010

Moon Mission Booked for October 28, 2012

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has booked October 28, 2012 launch pad time at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia. The spacecraft will be boosted to the Moon aboard a new five-stage solid propellant Minotaur V built by Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation, according to a report in Aviation Week.

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