Spacecraft Launched From Va. Soon to Crash Into Moon
The science spacecraft launched from Virginia’s coast last year has been orbiting the moon for months and is about to conclude its mission with a crash into the lunar surface, authorities said.
The unmanned spacecraft was the first to be sent from Virginia to the moon, NASA said.
With its primary scientific mission completed and its fuel almost exhausted, the intricate package of instruments is being lowered gradually into an orbit as little as a mile or two above the pocked and cratered surface of the moon, NASA said last week.