The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) launched a new Moon mission today to break new ground. The Vulcan Centaur rocket, carrying NASA’s Astrobotic Peregrine lander, which sent the first Moon landing mission after 1972, was launched today from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Astrobotic Peregrine, carrying the Vulcan rocket that was successfully launched at 02.18 local time, will take scientific equipment to the Moon within the framework of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
ATTENTION-CATCHING ‘STAR TREK’ DETAIL!
Among the equipment, there are also memorabilia from the crew of the US science fiction series Star Trek, which is followed fondly by millions of people.
The spacecraft will be the first US robot to tour the Moon.
ASTROBOTIC PEREGRINE SUCCESSFULLY SEPARATED FROM VULCAN ROCKET
Amanda Sterling, Spokesperson of United Launch Alliance (ULA), the developer company of the Vulcan rocket, announced that the Peregrine Moon lander successfully separated from the Vulcan Centaur rocket that carried it into space in 51 minutes and 6 seconds.
“IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE THIS FEELINGS”
ULA CEO Troy Bruno said, “I am very excited. I’m proud of this team. It has been many years of hard work. We’re going back to the moon. Our team did a great job. “It is impossible to describe this feeling,” he said.
While Astrobotic Peregrine is expected to make a soft landing on the Moon on February 23, it will travel in an elliptical orbit until then. (UAV)
