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NASA is on its way back to the moon, embarking upon a new study that could help launch future manned missions one day.NASA's Grail mission launched this morning, as the Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity and Recovery and Interior Laboratory lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Saturday at 6:08 a.m. EDT amid clear skies. It is the 110th mission to the moon in history, with previous missions launched by the United States, Soviet Union, Japan, China and India.

Spectators at the Cocoa Beach became witness to the third attempt by NASA to launch the dual-spacecraft mission finally as it lifted off from Cape Canaveral.

NASA had scratched the planned launches on Thursday and Friday, initially because of foul weather and then because of a data glitch.

After a two-day delay NASA finally launched a pair of satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday on its first mission to study the moon in unprecedented detail.

NASA has delayed the GRAIL launch one more day in order to review propulsion system data from Thursday's detanking operation.

NASA has postponed the launch of twin moon gravity-mapping spacecrafts until Saturday to give engineers time to investigate a glitch with the Delta 2 rocket that will carry the probes into space.

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NASA has put off the launch of its GRAIL mission, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, to moon Thursday morning as the upper level winds were in violation of the launch criteria.

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NASA's GRAIL launch delayed due to high winds.

On Thursday, NASA will launch two unmanned spacecraft to the moon, nearly forty-two years after US astronaut Buzz Aldrin planted an American flag on the lunar surface.

The countdown to twin GRAIL spacecraft mission to Moon is moving ahead toward a lift-off at 8:37 am EDT, NASA said in a statement. Forecasters still are calling for a 40 percent chance of good weather at the scheduled launch time.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured never-before-seen images from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites which show the twists and turns of the paths made when the astronauts explored the lunar surface.

NASA's Juno spacecraft, while traveling to Jupiter, managed to capture a rare image of the Earth and Earth's Moon.

NASA releases photos of human activity on the moon ahead of GRAIL mission launch.

NASA's LRO takes a walk down memory lane and looks back at three of the Apollo missions

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when the astronauts explored the lunar surface.

Recent pictures taken by a NASA's orbiting camera has revealed to the world, clearest evidence so far of the fact that man went to the moon 40 years ago when the U.S. spaceflight touched down on the moon's surface.

NASA has released sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites, showing the twists and turns of the paths made when the astronauts explored the lunar surface.

The cameras which are overseen by an Arizona State University professor have captured the sharpest images ever taken from orbit of three Apollo landing sites.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. The pictures show the tacks and debris left by astronauts and their lunar rovers on the moon's surface in the 1960's and 1970's.