ATLANTA — While many people were sleeping, a team of Georgia Tech students was on a mission to the moon and beyond.
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On Sunday, Georgia Tech College of Engineering students helped launch the Lunar Flashlight spacecraft into orbit around 3:47 a.m.
A video posted on the school’s Facebook page showed the moment the students first made contact with the craft out in space.
The students cheered, clapped and seem to breathe a sigh of relief.
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According to the release, the students are serving as mission control. They are guiding the spacecraft to the moon, where it will use infrared lasers in search of frozen water.
The presence of water and ice could be key to enabling long-term missions to the moon and beyond.
Therefore it is also a critical piece of NASA’s future space exploration.
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