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Fittingly, during the anniversary of Apollo 8's historic flight, NASA has announced a "major milestone" regarding the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Environmental testing is done Goddard Space Flight Center. This is indeed major; lots of bugs like to live in those systems.
The Official Awesome Quote Award concerning the announcement goes to mission system engineer Dave Everett: "We have cooked LRO, frozen it, shaken it, and blasted it with electromagnetic waves, and still it operates." Any day you manage to include the words "blasted with electromagnetic waves" in a sentence is a good day for everybody.
The next stop for the LRO is the Kennedy Space Center. If all continues to go well, an Atlas V launch will take place in the spring.
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