NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 18th, aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The LRO satellite will relay more information about the lunar environment than any other previous mission to the moon.
This page contains several viewpoints of the LRO/LCROSS launch. The first video shows the project team at Goddard Space Flight Center and their preparations for and reaction to the launch. The remaining videos are ten different individual camera feeds of the launch captured by Kennedy Space Center.
To see the full multicamera launch sequence, as well as videos from the time leading up to the launch, see entry #10443.
GSFC Control Rooms
Though the actual Atlas rocket carrying NASA's LRO mission was launched from a site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Mission Operations Control Center (or MOCC) is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. It is from the MOCC and Flight Conrol room (also at Goddard) that engineers will actually "fly" the spacecraft into orbit and throughout the mission. This footage shows LRO's Goddard-based flight team on the day of launch (footage with NASA logo in corner is from KSC, but was added for context).
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