Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120102:15:51:00
Back in the apollo days we got up there in two or three days. it took a different route, that's for sure. the way this puppy went up, it used what we call the balance position or the balance point between the earth and the sun. it uses that kind of to get a free ride basically to the moon. at some point when the spacecraft turned around it split into two. now we have not one but two orbiters that are making their way around the moon. so they've got into orbit yesterday. right now they're 100 or so miles in orbit. over the coming weeks they'll fire a couple of more rocket engines and get them i...
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