BU Goes to the Moon | Behind the Scenes Featurette: LEXI Launch Diary

By: dhahn () in BU Today

At 1:11am on January 15, NASA’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 spacecraft blasted into the sky from the [...]Kennedy Space Center in Florida, riding on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and destined for the moon. On board: a telescope designed and built at Boston University. Postdoctoral researcher Emil Atz was watching the launch from the project command center in BU's Photonics building, on call to communicate remotely with LEXI in case anything went wrong. (Spoiler alert: Everything went great! But it was very emotional.)

Tags: engineering, nasa, space, telescope, mechanical engineering, space science, lexi, x-rays

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