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Hey Fellow Fox 5'ers!

Today I was at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center seeing the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft up close and REAL personal in the Clean Room - see my pics.  LRO is getting ready to launch by the end of the year and will pave the way for humans to return to the Moon in 2020.

LRO is a beauty of a spacecraft. She is the largest and will be the longest duration unmanned lunar spacecraft to date by the time she completes her mission of well over a year's length.

I previously wrote about the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite that will ride along to the Moon with LRO after both are launched by the same Atlas V 401 rocket. - see my 1-2-08 and 12-30-07 blogs as well as pic. This is a true 2-for-1 lunar mission.

Have you sent your name in to hitch a ride to the Moon on LRO? See my blog for 5-7-08. There are well over 6 million names flying to the Moon as of today.

Much more to follow as we get closer and closer to launch.

Related links: http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/  and http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/index.htm

SkyGuy