Ladee Entering Final Preparations For Launch Nasa Invites Media To Ames Science Night

In an perform to put back into working order great questions about our moon, NASA is invention concluding measures to lead into a examine at 11:27 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, from NASA's Wallops Arc Mechanism on Wallops Isle, Va. Media are invited to supply NASA Ames Science Night, featuring the Planetary Sense and Dirt free Environment Voyager (LADEE) cast, a display of science for the official hosted from 5 to 9 p.m. PDT Friday, Sept. 6, on Shenandoah Check in the NASA Dip into Stay at Moffett View, Calif. Exhibits request be on show and Ames scientists and engineers request be covering to be in contact about LADEE and other NASA programs and projects. Weather permitting, the official may watch a NASA TV distribute of the LADEE lead into on a screen on the prairie of Moffett Field's Shenandoah Check.

In this photo, engineers as NASA's Wallops Arc Mechanism in Virginia encapsule the LADEE spacecraft arrived the fairing of the Minotaur V lead into middling nose-cone. LADEE is the first spacecraft understood, responsible, built, built-in and experienced at NASA's Ames Dip into Essence in Moffett View, Calif.

Engineers at NASA's Wallops Arc Mechanism in Virginia encapsule the LADEE spacecraft arrived the fairing of the Minotaur V lead into middling nose-cone. LADEE is the first spacecraft understood, responsible, built, built-in and experienced at NASA's Ames Dip into Essence in Moffett View, Calif. Sign credit: NASA Wallops / Terry Zaperach

The stunted car-sized Planetary Sense and Dirt free Environment Voyager (LADEE) is a robotic cast that request fly around the moon to ice pick stuffed information about the mold and planning of the thin lunar sense and make your mind up whether shipshape is being lofted arrived the lunar sky. A report on decree of these environment of our near celestial neighbor request insinuate researchers endure other bodies in the solar system, such as large asteroids, Mercury, and the moons of outer planets.

NASA Planetary Sense and Dirt free Environment Voyager (LADEE) program scientist Sarah Benefit symposium during a LADEE cast fleeting at NASA Company, Thursday, Dignified 22, 2013 in Washington. Make clear from NASA's LADEE cast request distribute unprecedented information about the makeup articulate the moon and funding scientists a untouchable decree of other planetary bodies in our solar system and past. Consider Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA's Ames Dip into Essence understood, responsible, built and experienced the spacecraft and request supervise the 100-day cast. While lead into, Ames request control the spacecraft and kill cast operations.

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