Earth ID: 10444

LRO Enters Lunar Orbit (full live event)

Released on June 23, 2009

This entry is the full one hour program that was produced live during the orbit insertion event. To see just a short portion of highlights from the event, see entry #10445

This video is a live program that aired during the crucial thruster burns which put the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter officially into lunar orbit. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT on June 23, 2009.

Credits

Craig Tooley (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Cathy Peddie (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
James Garvin (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Richard Vondrak (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Mike Wargo (NASA/HQ): Interviewee
Laurie Leshin (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Laura Motel (UMBC): Producer

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Mission:
LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter)

This item is part of this series:
LRO - Edited Features

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Orbit
SVS >> LRO
SVS >> Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
DLESE >> Narrated
NASA Science >> Earth