Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190721:03:51:00
The mission going very smoothly. >> we've been having really spectacular, behind the edge of the moon now. solar corona. the sky is lit all the way around the moon. quite an eerie sight because of the very marked three-dimensional aspect of having the sun's corona coming from behind the moon the way it is. >> it's a view worth the price of the trip. >> mother earth is 206,059 nautical miles behind, coming up on the lunar orbit insertion burn in which the spacecraft will start its initial orbit around the moon. that maneuver will slow the spacecraft down considerably from its present velocity, ...