Lunar Prospector, coasting to moon, deploys instruments

NASA's Lunar Prospector was on its way to the moon yesterday after a "spectacular" launch from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla., Tuesday night, its instruments safely deployed and turned on and preliminary results of its first trajectory correction maneuver "looking very good," NASA reported. The...

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