Tuesday, April 17, 2012

GRAIL – 7 Days and Counting

Originally published 9/1/2011

A week from today (if all goes according to plan) I’ll be watching NASA’s GRAIL mission blast off on the last-ever Delta II launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.  I’ll be updating this blog between now and next Wednesday, when I’ll begin a new blog entry from the NASA Tweetup.  I’ll keep you up to date with what NASA has planned for us as we learn about it.  So far, all we have is a cryptic tweet from @NASATweetup yesterday saying that they were “trying to finalize the awesomeness” before they let us know what’s up.  Sounds…awesome!

In the meantime, our Tweetup badges have been printed, the patches sewn, and the poster printed that we’ll all sign and leave as a “thank you” to NASA.  For your viewing pleasure, here and here are a couple of very cool picture galleries from NASA showing the GRAIL hardware being prepped for launch.

All we need now is an itinerary!

No comments:

Post a Comment