The main point of our visit to the Goddard Space Centre a day or two ago was to catch up with the team behind the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is now less than a year from launch. Obviously we were following some more prestigious British visitors, but they were extremely nice to us anyway. It’s [...]
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We do try to appear sophisticated, but really, when it comes down to it, any mission which involves hitting something is going to do well in the PR stakes. It was fantastic to spend the day in the company of the LCROSS team. LCROSS is the sister spacecraft to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and is [...]
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I’ve just landed in California as part of a fairly epic Sky at Night trip around the US, conducting interviews for a couple of programmes about the new era of lunar exploration. I am slightly worried that we should really be in China or Japan, though, as both countries have successful new probes in orbit [...]
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