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cameraman
06-19-09, 01:44 AM
How'd I miss this?


An Atlas 5 rocket thundered to life and streaked into space Thursday, hurling two NASA spacecraft toward the moon for a $583 million mission to scout out landing sites for future manned missions and to search for evidence of hidden ice near its frigid poles.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10268241-239.html

The home page of the program

http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Okay it seems that you can follow it on Facebook, Twitter and the program blog. Damn I'm getting old:saywhat:

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nrc
06-19-09, 10:43 AM
That's clearly fake. :gomer:
Elmo T
06-19-09, 03:04 PM
Some cool new web stuff from NASA:

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/constellation_projects/
oddlycalm
06-19-09, 04:20 PM
How'd I miss this?

Daffy birthday hijinx...? :D

oc
Ankf00
06-19-09, 05:18 PM
that one's out of Ames out here. LCROSS won't land till october or something.
pchall
06-19-09, 07:52 PM
That's clearly fake. :gomer:

We know that because those mirrors would never work. ;)
oddlycalm
06-19-09, 08:26 PM
LCROSS won't land till october or something.

You're using "land" as a euphemism, right...? :D

oc
Al Czervik
06-19-09, 10:57 PM
Seeing as we're getting close to the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing (by humans), I have to brag on my alma mater.

1/3 of the commanders of the landing missions were Purdue engineering graduates.

Neil & Gene, I salute!
Gnam
06-20-09, 05:00 PM
Some would say that the Earth is *our* moon.
But that would belittle the name of our Moon, which is the Moon.
*We're* the Moon!

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6315/13107.jpg

Payback time. :p
stroker
06-20-09, 05:09 PM
January 31, 2007?
Gnam
06-20-09, 05:50 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_Scare

Boston went into lockdown when a PR firm placed some electronic signs around town.
stroker
06-20-09, 08:11 PM
I'm not seeing the connection but that's okay. I'm an old fart and I'll just go back in to Granda Simpson mode.

























DEATH! THERE IT IS AGAIN, DEATH! STALKING ME AT EVERY TURN.......
Napoleon
06-22-09, 08:04 AM
Boston went into lockdown when a PR firm placed some electronic signs around town.

"electronic signs"! I thought they were lite-brights, which I use to have as a kid and got hours of fun out of.
Ankf00
06-22-09, 05:02 PM
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6315/13107.jpg

Payback time. :p

:laugh:

America, **** yeah!
emjaya
06-22-09, 07:29 PM
How'd I miss this?



http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10268241-239.html

The home page of the program

http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Okay it seems that you can follow it on Facebook, Twitter and the program blog. Damn I'm getting old:saywhat:

j-5t4de6jjI



While its cameras will not be able to detect the footprints of the 12 Apollo astronauts who once walked on the moon, they will be able to see the landing stages, rovers and other equipment that were left behind.

There's going to be a lot of conspiracy theory nuts ducking for cover when they publish those photo's.
cameraman
06-22-09, 11:16 PM
There's going to be a lot of conspiracy theory nuts ducking for cover when they publish those photo's.

Nah they are just photoshops...
ChampcarShark
06-25-09, 04:55 PM
The photos were already taken in a movie studio and taken to wally mart for developing them... :gomer::gomer::gomer: