Friday, February 18, 2011

A life-size Voyager spacecraft replica inside the von Kármán Auditorium...where the GRAIL lecture was held.

LAST NIGHT, I attended a lecture at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Pasadena, Calif., about NASA’s upcoming GRAIL mission to the Moon. Interesting presentation. GRAIL—which stands for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory and comprises of two identical lunar-orbiting spacecraft—is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this September. Awesome. Below are camera phone pics that I took before and after the lecture yesterday.

For photos that I took at the most recent JPL Open House I attended, click on the red link.

LINK: Photos I took at the 2010 JPL Open House

Waiting for the GRAIL lecture to begin.

A life-size Galileo spacecraft replica...inside an exhibit room right next door to the von Kármán Auditorium.

A life-size Mars Rover replica...inside the exhibit room right next door to the von Kármán Auditorium.

An actual Moon Rock on display...inside the exhibit room right next door to the von Kármán Auditorium.

A full moon shines above NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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