Date: December 28th, 2012
Title: Mission Accomplished for GRAIL
Organization: NASA Lunar Science Institute
Links: NLSI, GRAIL mission website, GRAIL team
Description: It’s mission accomplished and mission success for the twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft, Ebb and Flow. David Lehman, GRAIL Project Manager joins Nancy Atkinson to take a look back at the mission.
Bios: NLSI brings together leading lunar scientists from around the world to further NASA lunar science and exploration.
David H. Lehman is GRAIL’s project manager. He has also served as project manager of the successful Deep Space-1 mission.
Nancy Atkinson is a science journalist and is the Senior Editor for Universe Today.
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