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  1. Where am I now? Day 24 of space cruisin'. Speedometer 0.75km/s (1684mph). Odometer 1,786,400km. 577,000km from Earth & 614,700km from Moon.
  2. Cruisin'@0.75km/s(1678mph).578,500km from Earth.596,400km from Moon."And with the radio blasting goes cruising just as fast as she can now."
  3. Where am I now? Cruisin' at 0.75km/s (1672mph). Now 580,000km from Earth. 572,000km from Moon. Have traveled 1,724,300km so far. Day 23.
  4. @colourblue Queen, song written by Dr Brian May, a song about special relativity called "39"
  5. Hanging out in Ophiuchus (snake holder) tonight, heading towards Sagittarius, soon to be out of view for n.hem. but into view for s.hem.
  6. My mission blog was updated at http://bit.ly/12B0MY
  7. @alwaysbob Not with naked eye, but with a modest telescope. See http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/... for more details.
  8. Successful comm pass. Back to cruisin'. "For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas. Ne'er looked back, never feared, never cried."
  9. My ops team is checking me out. In a DSN contact now. Simple status check of my systems.
  10. Where am I now? Cruising at 0.74km/s (1667mph). Now at 581,300km from Earth & 541,100km from the Moon. (Mission Day 22; 90 days to EOM)
  11. @NASA_SDO_HMI welcome to Florida. @LRO_NASA and I loved Astrotech. Moderate humidity is sometimes good for electronics, lower ESD risk.
  12. Oh, it must be time for a lunar-minibreak, don't ya think? Check out updated @NASA moon mission blog at http://ub0.cc/08/g5
  13. @CoachCMartin thanks for following, trying to be educational & engaging, the realtime nature of my mission just cool, no moment lived twice
  14. @tweelog but i've clocked 1,657,200km (1,029,740 miles) on my odometer (total distance traveled since June 18th launch)
  15. "A million miles our vagabond wheels. Clocked up beneath the clouds..." Hello from 581,000km from Earth & 527,000km from the Moon!
  16. Where am I now? Day 22. Speedometer reads 0.74km/s (1665mph) (starting to speed up as I have passed apogee). Odometer reads 1,657,200 km.
  17. Correction: Totally being lunar! World's Largest Ground-Based Lunar Image Mosaic is zowie pretty. http://ub0.cc/3q/3c & http://ub0.cc/0J/4V
  18. Totally being lunar! World's Largest Ground-Based Lunar Image Mosaic is zowie pretty. http://ub0.cc/6F/86/p and at LPOD http://ub0.cc/49/6b
  19. Where am I now? I am 581,700 km from Earth & 504,300 km from the Moon. Traveling at 0.74km/s (1663mph). 91 days more cruisin' ahead.
  20. For those who missed earlier posting about spotting me in the night sky, here's the link on Science@NASA http://ub0.cc/6C/4x