LRO/LCROSS Moon Missions Atop Atlas V Rocket on Launch Pad (NASA, Moon, 6/17/09)

An United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellites (LRO/LCROSS) rolls out from its Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to its launch pad at 10 a.m. today. The rocket is now poised for a June 18 launch with three, one second launch windows of 5:12, 5:22 and 5:32 p.m. EDT. Photo by Pat Corkery, United Launch Alliance.

 

Image credit: United Launch Alliance/Pat Corkery

 

Learn more about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) :

www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html

 

Learn more about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS):

www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/index.html

 

Follow the "New Moon Missions" blog from NASA:

blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/moon_missions/

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