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i hint about the only person around it doesn't have tv coverage of the things that man got the black up now you're gonna be getting a tv picture now they'll yes we are getting a tv picture one all badly good morning and welcome to the nasa goddard space flight center in greenbelt

maryland my name is the internal jones and i'm with the office of public affairs for sitting in the lunar reconnaissance orbiter mission operations center in preparation for lunar orbit insertion yellows spacecraft launched on jun 18 from cape canaveral florida and for the past four and a half days has been on a trajectory towards

the million now in just a few minutes the control engineers behind me will begin the bird that would put the spacecraft in position to be captured by the moon's orbit the insert we call this lunar orbit and so shun now the assertion burns mass for roughly 40 minutes then for the next three days the integers may do a series of short for

bejust burns each day in order to reach the desired 30 by 216 kilometer commissioning orbit now to learn more about the yellow mission let's take a look at one of the lol videos i think that it's in human nature to explore understanding the moon better will help us to understand our neighbors

in the solar system works going the solar system here not just the moon the moon is the natural next step in in our exploration of our own universe the lunar reconnaissance orbiter is as its namesake says a reconnaissance mission to the moon our job is to take a suite of very powerful scientific instruments to make

an atlas of the entire moon in some places in very great detail ography mountain heights mineralogy temperatures abundances of resources including potentially the intriguing possibility that there's water the moon we put all this together into a dataset by flying low over the moon for a year

this is the data that the people designing the system's picking the site's need to take us back to the middle well we learned too much about the moon from the apollo program but now we want to return to the moon for a more intensive study we want to be able to go back to the moon so that we can live there for long periods and work on the

moon so we need a mission that can help us find the best places to go and determine how to go back there safely we know that you know neil armstrong and some of the others had a difficult time finding a safe landing site they didn't see it till they got there but now with with our instruments will be able to tell people ahead of time look don't go

there lro will have a laser system that will give us a high-resolution topographic map of the moon it also has high resolution cameras that will identify objects that are only a foot or two in size so that we know where there are no large boulders that could be a risk to astronauts your job

is to literally complete the job of mapping then do it at high resolutions and enable enable the designers of the human systems the atlas they need to pick the safe places to go the beneficial places to go and where its most fruitful in addition to the safe landing sites lro is looking for potential resources

and then why are we doing that because it's really hard to carry all your supplies with you i mean you can do it but you really spend a lot of not only fuel but cargo space would be really nice to go to a place that already has the resources whether its water eyes to have water or potential minerals that we could use as

raw materials to make into things that we would need we think the most interesting parts of the moon maybe the polar regions of the moon because there could be resources there and so we're going to study intensively the polar regions with lro from the apollo era we chose to go for good reasons because it was literally the easiest to go to the

equatorial regions and stay a very short time is very ambitious program but but when you look at where would you like to go and and stay for a while on the moon you begin to realize that probably the poles of the most interesting place access to solar power continuously that may be the first most important reason over but you know the near term and then

the possibility of resources being there those may take much longer time before were able to really exploit those but the solar power is something we can exploit right away the second big resource on the moon maybe water-ice others evidence from earlier missions that in dark places at the poles there maybe water at the

surface or below the surface in the form of ice crystals if it is abundant astronauts could use this for both human consumption and as a source of rocket fuel lro will measure for the first time this very energetic component of the space radiation environment in order to see whether it's going to be a problem for

humans or not it was one thing to go for a handful of days and apollo and go when you knew that the sun was quiet or you hope the sun state quiet and then you took the risk you calculated the risk of cancer and such and and you made a short mission going to live there longer you need to do you need to understand it well enough to go here's what i need to

do to protect myself one of the things that we're looking for on the yellow mission is how the high radiation environment of affects our ability to explore so if we bring cameras or communication devices you know how will they be impacted by the cosmic radiation we need to protect our equipment as well as ourselves

when we look back at what we did in lr oh and look at what followed i think we'll see a profound impact will see us is really being that the small first step where we have human beings permanently off this planet you need to move out into the solar system starting with the moon as that pans out i think i think will be a small

piece of of a profound development that when history looks back to say this time went back to the moon this time we we stayed and we only moved on from there so as you can see lol is pretty critical to nasa's mission of returning humans to the moon and sitting with us today we have patty patty the deputy project manager for the lro mission

thank you kathy from sitting with us today now you're more than welcome welcome call kathy tell us a little bit more about the lunar horse insertion burn that we're here to witness okay this is a melrose most critical activity that we've been planning for 44 years the lunar orbit insertion burn is what we

use to help change ellos velocity as lol is a is right now falling towards the moon and this burn will help us change its velocity so that the moon will be able to capture a row and once the moon captures lol then we'll be able to lower it into its orbiting and begin our mission

well this is a pretty exciting moment kathy carry yet can you tell the audience a little bit about your role lol edition well i've been very fortunate to be the deputy project manager for this project and gotten to be able to work with some he's totally awesome people that the engineers that not only designed built and tested lol

but the the people that you see behind you and control center here the mission operations team who worked tires tirelessly and make sure that were able to fly a row and operate it to the moon things so i've gotten able to work with all these people and put together the whole aspects of the business part of the technical parts it's been a really

cool job and this is a really exciting moment for us well you know lol was a pretty fast track permission from conception very development tell us a little bit more about you know building our when testing and integrating at the outer space flight center goddard we've done a really great job here and gotten in

terms of designing and fast tracking and spacecraft we have a strong heritage here of many spacecraft so we're able to take lessons learned from the many projects that we did before and you know put them right to use with ella rose so we didn't have to start from a blank sheet of paper we were to talk to our comments on other

projects and use that so we were we were able to to take designs and lessons learned from projects like you know sdl no humble when it all of the multiple missions that we've had here and be able to take that right into what we need to do for the roof to the lro project and also a lot of stuff that we do in terms of testing the spacecraft

and integrating it made it just a lot easier for us to mark our schedule as you said it was very aggressive very fast and if it hadn't been for you know our ability here at goddard we probably would have been able to do it really that's great like on the personal model kathy i mean i know from the mage you've been really interested in a move so as

this project between only are you the owner absolutely i know i got to meet my hero your meal armstrong you're going you know it was a little kid you know you love you i always dreamed of you know being able to work for nasa and following the footsteps of these really awesome people that got to walk on the

moon and here i am you know with the lunar reconnaissance orbiter project going back to the moon i mean it's it's just just a dream come true that all that we're taking nasa and everyone back to the moon tonight it's it's it's a dream come true for me and and and all of our team members were very excited well just on a personal note

cabin how do you feel seeing your baby so this i'm finally getting ready to meet your destiny i can i can barely contain myself you know this is just so excited and i'm like nervous happy excited all at the same time and this is the moment we've all been waiting for you know all these years so where you'll probably see us all get really excited

here tonight i'll probably cry got a box to get there because this is just a tremendous moment for all of us alright well kathy thank you so much for taking the time was not by and have a chat with us about of luck with the mission thank you very much thank you for being here with us so great thank you now let's take another look inside

the control room as the burn gets underway my chances around target run out and copy that ok we're five minutes out from the burn this is the final go/no-go pole start with emmy emmy go systems go phyto go see the h yeah software no g9c acs hardware go drop go com campus cope

thermal go our hey leute go deployables your apps go all systems are go one minute to burn start and $operand seconds we enter delta v wait this is a serious hardware confirming all thruster contra nominal after that we see the three train gently expected flight turning the corner

copy props like . thrusters all look at everything looks on unc click and see everything looks nominal so far so good expecting 85 to drop load ten percent at some point probably thrusters all of nominal the permanent

ok we have with us today dr. jim garvin goddard's chief engineer so jim can you tell us a little bit about what's going on right now let's see we're right in the middle now beginning the critical burn this firing of a critical rocket that will put lro into it's a natural ability to allow it to begin in about a month it's not going so this is the most

important part of the mission right now that we've been dreaming about for the last five years that's just great so jim pretty instrumental in getting this mission off the ground how did this project began well nancy it really began if you think back to when we left the moon with apollo what was left from the samples and in the

aftermath of that we thought we have to go back and going back to the moon to do both science and engineering to plan for human exploration is really what began lro and the president speech in january 2004 that our first step back is to open the frontier of the moon with something like that lol well now we're here flying it

well that's just great i mean jim we send humans to move but 40 years ago why do we need to go back moves a big place nancy people forget its kind of land area the size of africa we surveyed and really studied 60 places with the lunar landings return the samples we looked again with prospect but we've left a frontier unexplored lro will fill

in all the gaps at the scales we need for the engineering decisions to send people back there so jim take a look at the screen exactly are we seeing right now what we're seeing the beginnings of the lunar orbit insertion and over the next several minutes the primary rocket motor will fire with the thrusters controlling it and after that time we

will be in a capture orbit around the moon and we'll be back for good it's kind of like we're back and this is the key step to do it ok so jim just a little bit more about what mysteries that through the move that supposed to hold the moon is kind of mother nature's special chronometer and as we think about it we realized

what we learned from apollo told us it's part of our history so we're interested in not only extending what a positive but discovering a numeral one of the things is does the moon sequester resources that we could use scientific and for people what really is the history of the moonlight we haven't studied the poles of the moment what is

the moon like a human scales and finally what's the temperature space of the moonlight when we look at this planet we think it's a simple world but we realize now the lunar poles you can see them now in this image a really unexplored terrain there almost more mysterious than pluto so why not going to look at this mysterious terrain right in our own

backyard and slightly the morning actually is a piece of our destiny so for all of us want to get back because we think aspects of the earth history recorded in that plan is it true to say that we actually know more about do about it in terms of mapping absolutely in terms of understanding the samples we return from the with apollo

know the moon has that rich textbook in those rocks and soils that we return from apollo so long ago so it's a different story but so much more to be done at this moment lro is our gateway excellent so just tell us a little about little bit about what challenges my passionate space when they really go back to the room so when we go back to

the community ideally for a sustained presence the things we need to know where the kind of things civil engineers plan for human adaptability to the lunar gravity and the space radiation the terrain the lunar regulate the soil this is critical it's everywhere in your bones in your hands in your hair will not your hair

but it's everywhere and so we need to look at those things as if we're going to go and live there for good this is the kind of environment we're going to think about and we're living now in the space station but now it's on a new world so that's the step that lol has to pave the way for so people like you could go to the moon

that's that's pretty exciting so that's just what do you think i mean now the most what's next don't think i think what's next is the discoveries that are going to come from lol this whole new moon we're ready to see is out there waiting and this mission is going to capture it and what that will tell us is how we should go

what we should go and ask about and once we get people thinking about and getting back to the moon and we can look to those farther shores the harder places mars asteroids wherever we want to go it's a big universe someone's got to explore it excellent thank you so much jimmy really exciting stuff we appreciate you stopping by mixing have

to go our own excellent so let's take another look inside the control world lp time at twenty percent 670 to see flake anything also some phenomenal far so good it's his hardware like okay we have confirmation that the burn is underway were only 100 kilometers away from the

moment prop eight bad claim first rehearsal nominal everything still normal ok the team in the control room is hard at work now let's take a closer look at all the team work that went into making this mission possible production lunar reconnaissance orbiter

is a first step to future missions mars and beyond but a lot has to happen before we get there and one woman plays a key role i plan how to build a spacecraft everyday we have a large team and we have to plan every day what everybody's going to do on the spacecraft and so i try to coordinate all those activities i have a team of

people that helped me out and they take shifts and we work together to to make sure that things keep moving well god has the responsibility of managing the mission and we are also responsible for building the spacecraft bus and integrating the instruments to the bus and doing the system level test and integration and then also doing all

the processing down at the cape to the launch vehicle there's chemistry involved there's getting the right mix of people that complement each other's skills and when you have that all together you can work very efficiently and and come up with a great product i think in the amount of time that we were given that it's really in a way that

we've done an incredible job right you know getting this whole space craft together seven instruments which is not insignificant character to to put together and and i think as a team we work really well together to come up with a great final product one woman's leadership and outstanding teamwork are the building blocks of

nasa's lunar reconnaissance orbiter mission go to nasa.gov slash lr own to learn more about this mission with us now we have dr. laurie leshin goddard's deputy director for science and technology glory morning good morning so it's just remarkable how much work the team has put into this mission isn't it

they really are the dream team scattered group that has put this mission together they're doing great and the burn is going great where we just heard we're at about 450 kilometers about the moon so everything's going nominally we're still trying to get that line so tell us a little bit from god's perspective what does it mean to have such a large role

in this lunar mission while we just couldn't be more proud to be blazing the trail as the new explorers going back to the moon and connor and so our team has put together a mission that's going to give us information that we need to place the trail for humans were like that advance scout that goes out there and and finds all the hazardous places

and the interesting places to go and we'll report back so that when the humans come don't know exactly where to go and so you have that role such a critical role in the mission it's really incredible well great i'm tell us a little bit more about how daughter disappeared for this incredible well you know in many ways we know this

is a robotic mission and our people on it it's kind of like sitting member of your family to the moon for us i mean we conceived of this mission we designed it we built it with our own hands here at goddard space flight center we kind of brought it to life if you will and now we send it on its way out of the nest to the moon

so for us there's a lot of personal involvement in this mission from hundreds and hundreds of people at the center and who have put their time their nights and weekends many sleepless nights and many of them rather be asleep right now and also i want to take the opportunity while we're talking about the amazing team to thank

the families of all those team members who along with the people who have built the mission really helps enable it because those people give up their time energy to the turtle so i'm lori as a scientist i do you think it's important to go back to the moon well i will tell you as a scientist there are there are many exciting things

still to be discovered about our moon it's our nearest planetary neighbor if you will and it's really going to allow us to to read the first few chapters of the history of our solar system which are kind of wiped out on the earth so the moon holds the history of the earliest part of the solar system frankly better than almost any other

object out there so it's got an incredible science story to tell but more than that i think going back to the moon is about great nations doing great things and we have to take on great challenges as a nation and that's one of the things that makes america and makes us who we are in addition i think missions like lrr so

important because they they should they bring out the best of our spirit they bring out the most innovative of us they allow us to work in the high-tech areas that really help drive our economy so there's so many reasons to be proud of this mission that not just scientific all the scientific stuff is great too that's great now lori i mean

tell me a little bit more about you know the god of community and then at the public at large and have you noticed that people really excited about opportunity to go back to the mood lol yeah of course we're got incredibly excited and given you know we conceived of the mission 5 years ago we launched five days ago and you know five minutes

ago we got to the moon so it's very exciting for all of us but the members of the public have gotten really excited as well you know we had a an opportunity for people to be able to send their names to the moon on a chip that's actually right now going into orbit around the moon with lol we had over a million pieces all sign up so absolutely

amazing engagement of the public in this mission and we ain't seen nothing yet because when those pictures start coming down when that information starts coming back it's going to really transform the way we see them in and it's going to be very excited that's amazing stuff now let's take a little look at that said your name

communities personally time to look normal on december $year 17 1972 apollo 17 left the almost 36 years later nasa is going back are you i'm going i'm going back i'll be there go back i'm going to try installing wouldn't

miss it i'm going are ya sure where do i sign okay thanks again lord for joining us and we're going to take another look at the control room as the burn continues is it before we see in a clip it's approximately about five days dropping lt time a 50-percent copy that fifty

percent tennessee fight did you copy right now i don't i was just saying you're going to look down here into the cycles are matching our predictions it's in the trends a copy light we have stable capture better than after that table capture

top flight display pressures all of nominal over pressures and temperatures with me tennessee plate and say absolutely phenomenal yeah good white photo we've reached periapsis 280 kilometers after that fight oh we have anything on the tracking

we have with us right now dr. michael cote nasa's chief lunar scientists so my can you just give us an update and really off with the bun well i'll tell you this is why we just received some of the most terrific news that we've been waiting for the engines have been burning now for about 15 or 20 minutes and we just received word

absolutely waiting long enough and we've been effective enough in those burns that we've been captured stable by the go ahead were there now we're going to continue to burn so that we get the right orbit that we can then maneuver into and start to check out the spacecraft and start to check out the the instruments in the next couple of

days well that's just great news so mike just tell us a little bit how do you feel at this moment as we've begun nasa's next step to go back to but you know it's funny i was driving in this morning and it's just so calm and so quiet and so peaceful outside and yet in here the the the excitement is just palpable you've

had these teams working for years now for this day this is one of the key and critical of events that has to occur for for us to have a successful mission and it looks like we're well along the way to be being able to do excellent so might you know lol is nasa's next lunar mission i've asked you know all the scientists have stopped by

this morning to tell us you know why do we need to go back well going back to the morning and we were talking to jim garvin a little bit earlier and going back we really need to be able to learn the next steps on how to live and work and be productive on another planet when oh we were there for apollo that they were

unbelievably successful but it was only for a few days at a time community on being able to live and work on another planet surface is going to prepare us to go beyond the moon to mars the asteroids and rested for mike knows the first mission in nasa's exploration systems mission directorate so can you just explain to the audience you know a

little bit more about exploration systems and then lol enroll in it oh sure uh exploration systems has been given the job to develop the equipment and techniques and to be able to take us back to the moving so that we can be effective we can do it anymore learn living working on another planet we're going to be able to develop the

capabilities to get us there all the equipment to allow us to to live their lives there safely and to maneuver around the moon to to learn about the moon as well as how to develop those kinds of techniques were going to be able to take we're going to need to explore beyond beyond the moon and lro's rolling it is really pivotal if we were

going to go on a summer vacation one of the first things we want to do is go out and get the best map that we possibly could well lro is going to provide in a full atlas of all kinds of information about the moon that we're going to need to first of all developed that equipment so that it so that it works well and works

effectively as well as to find those places on the moon that where we can really understand not just the evolution of the moon but really provide yeah as jim was indicating it's really a witness plate two of the development of the whole solar system like we know that you know lol it's not gonna be the only spacecraft orbiting the moon and there

seems to be this renewed interest in them internationally what do you think that so well from the scientists point of view that interest has always been there we just now have the opportunities from a number of nations ford that as a next step in exploration and science the european space agency's smart one

mission was the little spacecraft that could development demonstrated new technologies and at the same time made measurements of the moon that hadn't been made before our colleagues from the pan had launched something so na and later renamed goglia and it was a unbelievably successful mission and just ended ended recently

china has launched wrong one and is still in orbit around the moon around the 200 kilometer altitude and our colleagues in in india with the chandrayaan-1 mission we have of to us instruments onboard that mission making measurements that are helping both lol as well as our companion spacecraft l cross a narrow itself has a lunar

neutron exploration neutron detector that was provided by by russia with it and an extraordinary team from these two for space research so what final question like what is lol me but i think im gonna mean for the future respect space exploration well i really think that lro and the way in which the team work together and so quickly and so

effectively is a role model for how we're going to explore space and in the future of the the mission had a an aggressive timeline we have a great team and that team work together and was unbelievably flexible to take the little bumps in the road the children that show up and be able to respond to those and ended up producing a spacecraft that

right now is in orbit around the moon well thank you my first stop and i really appreciated oh absolutely muffler ok now let's take another look inside the control room as the burn continues however that 10 hours 619 scene like going everything looks good we're

expecting 82 to i cross with a headband soon how to be time at eighty percent listening with after that eighty percent ok let's take another look at one of lro's videos lol scouts for safe landing sites one of the lunar reconnaissance orbiters primary objectives is to scout safe landing sites for future manned and

robotic missions to the moon to do so lro suite of instruments work collectively to build a detailed picture of the surface let's take a look at how this is done the first thing we want to assess is the topography of the lunar terrain hello uses an instrument called lola that bounces laser pulses off of the

surface to measure its height the resulting map shows steep slopes rough terrain and gives a general idea of what areas might be level enough to provide safe landing sites shown here in green lro's next step is to create a temperature map of the surface using an instrument called diviner temperatures change more slowly in areas with lots of

loose materials so by looking at thermal maps we can eliminate areas for landing that may have a dangerous abundance of rocks the regions in yellow represent places where the thermal signatures indicate they are unsafe landing sites lastly we want to double-check and refine our map even further lro does this with a set of cameras that make

detailed pictures of the surface looking closely at these images we can actually pick out individual boulders and craters these will clearly be hazardous places to land so we've labeled them read and remove them from our safe areas at this point any sites that are left green have been checked and rechecked to be level smooth and free from hazards

based on lro scouting we would consider these safe locations to land let's take one more look at our process it should be noted that while it is absolutely essential to find safe landing sites a safe place to land is not necessarily an interesting place to land when it comes time to pick the best landing site many other factors and

measurements will be taken into account as astronauts make their descent toward the lunar surface late in the next decade they can think nasa's small robot scout hello row for showing them the safest approach we have with us dr. rich vondrak the lro project scientist so which can you just give us another

update where we are well where we are right now if the burn stopped would be in a weekly captured orbit but good news is we only have about six more minutes to go and at that point will be finished with our orbit for today in getting ready over the next few days to move into our commissioning more of it

excellent so rich as the our project scientist what's your role in this business incredible lunar mission yeah i i have the great job of working with the seven instrument teams with the project here at goddard and then also with the instrument builders in the headquarters folks to work on the

instruments of this shows the crater instrument our radiation sensor the litter radiometer experiment that will measure the temperature on the moon are five beam laser altimeter the and then our high-resolution cameras which will make very precise images of the moon a uv spectrometer to search for water frost

in the polar regions and then a neutron detector from russia that will look for hydrogen at the polls and then finally our technology demonstrator are in advance synthetic aperture radar system this shows the spacecraft here at goddard in his final testing so which i'm tell me a little bit how are these measurements that you just helped

develop through the other video how they ate humans in the return to the moon special extended periods of time right in order to return safely to the moon we have to identify a level terrain are fighting laser altimeter will measure precisely the unevenness of the two terrain and identify here in green safe landing sites we look at the temperature

of the moon and from the temperature variation we can tell rach abundances and then finally our camera system is able to measure objects there are only a few feet in diameter and find small craters and by combining all of this information will be able to tell where it is safe for explorers to land here shown in green and then after they land

there they can explore the new but nearby regions is a little bit more about what resources are hoping to find on the road you know searching for resources is a very important goal of the one resource we know that is on the moon is nearly continuous sunlight when explorers land in the pull in the equator they're faced with two weeks of

sunlight and two weeks of darkness this video here shows the normal of variation of sunlight on the moon moon rotates in one month but here at the polls we see that there are regions that are high elevations like hills or small mountains where the sun shines nearly all the time and explorers can use the sunlight is the source of

electric power and of warmth to survive for longer periods and they could at the equator also at the polls we see that there are permanently shadowed regions the bottoms of craters that get very very cold here shown in blue and we think that over the course of the last two billion years water and other volatile zhan the moon may have settled

here and then they condensed and they can be used as a resource for not only human consumption but also for rocket fuel that's just great i think i just heard that we're about 20 seconds the into the burns so very important milestone so just tell us are you i mean hearing that are you really excited to learn what are you putting

hoping to learn from lrl lro is going to give us an atlas of the moon it'll start unlock the secrets of the moon and there are many interesting places on the moon but i i personally most excited about what will learn about the polar regions the polar regions are the terra incognita wondering moves and we think that those are going to be important is

religion up and we're very excited about what we learned there and now they're just telling all stations display congratulations on a personal a lie lol return now to the move ok ok we're really excited here in the lunar reconnaissance orbiter mission operations that we have just been

captured by the moon we are at our what 30 by 216 what we're a little bit higher than that where we're going to trim the orbit over the next few days but the good news is we are in orbit we're not going past the moon were there to stay we're ready to start doing our check out of the instruments over the next few

days will be turning on the instruments and we hope to make data available in images in this week props like that . spread to turn the capital right yes happy populate go ahead and turn the kapiti turns off i do i do want to congratulate you want to actually this this images and pictures so much talking

alright alright that about their angels ok one more question for him that i want to keep it prop play cabinets are off knocking yeah ops flight go ahead and disable pressure fire ok as we see all the excitement going on

in control when i have one final question for you rich when we be able to see the images from the hello spacecraft that were safely in orbit around the moment yes now that were there we start the job of turning on in calibrating all of the instruments on lro we hope to have the camera operating in the next couple of weeks and then we as soon as

we get some images from our gang member will make them available to the public of the mission continues doing the check out of the instruments for about the next six to eight weeks and then in august moving our normal mapping orbit well great congratulations very much as you want to think okay let's go back to the control building and oxalate up go

ahead and close the hbo vivo find more redundant primary you want to leave the pd little corner off you can go in and turn off ok we have with us craig tooley the lol project manager so craig can you confirm that lls safety and orbit around the sure i certainly can as the last commentator said we reached in orbit

around in orbit that's about 200 x 3000 don't go to a foreman for mom and the tracking art shows that were essentially where we planned to be there at the moon so just personally how do you think obviously you're excited because you reached your goal but how do you think the loi it went over all the yellow it went like clockwork

you know with a mission like this we spent literally years and certainly the last year practicing for every possible contingency and being ready for this in the end it went exactly as planned oh great now that lol has finished his crib critical first burn what's next in the timeline for the mission what we do next is even as we speak

what's going on is we're putting the spacecraft back in the configuration that essentially wasn't as we flew to the moon work for repointing are high gain antenna dish to the earth erase our data rate for putting it back in the in the mode that is going to fly in this orbit and that after we get in that mode will begin the work because this was the

first and the most critical blind loi one we call the moon's orbit insertion but we have four more to do that take that take us from that large eccentric orbit oriented and begin to first lower it down to 200 kilometers and then finally put us in our 30 kilometer by $operand to 16 kilometers but that will spend the next two months and while we

do the work to get ready to actually execute the mission ok so tell me specifically when the instrument start off we begin to what we already have two instruments turned on because they don clendenon creating healthy which measure radiation and measures neutrons eventually created the background radiation those were

turned on during our transit out to them also we can measure that environment as we travel there the other instruments begin to be switched on in about a week first we get the rest of the spacecraft checked out and then we begin a methodical process of bringing the instruments online doing their calibrations in orbit beginning to do

observations over the next over the next weeks so craig on a personal welcome you hope will be lol legacy why believe dollar rose legacy and i believe this says to almost everybody on this team will be that when we look back upon this will see that this small spacecraft was this one man's mechanical circuit for the human beings was the

beginning of when eventually returned human beings to do our legacy will be fresh footprints on the moon excellent thank you so much very welcome thinking and talking with us and congratulations oh yeah well we'd like to thank all the viewers for joining us today for this critical

milestone for lol we look forward to learning more about the moon's features environment and topography courtesy of lr oh thank you and have a great and lro day drop the fight and flight i think we completed all the prop cleanup activities too good everything with common on the screen

acs harbor freight the headlight yeah we have any other kind of activities for you all clean up the activities have been completed copy that genus deflates really quick view everything looks good to us we just need to switch tracks or soon but we got a while okay copy that we were just i was gonna let the dts handle that bobby we start

slowing back at around eleven thirty six or 1130 1130 48 started slow okay now from now all right we're just gonna hang out here at eight cavin yeah i history but the only person on it doesn't have tv coverage of the face and then they got the black up now you're gonna be getting a tv picture bill yes

we are getting a tv picture now one all right family