NASA's twin spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core are nearing their New Year's Eve and New Year's Day main-engine burns to place the duo in lunar orbit.

NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-B spacecraft successfully executed its first flight path correction maneuver Wednesday, Oct. 5.They will take a low-energy trajectory and is expected to enter orbit around the Moon New-years day

Google has improved the Google/Moon maps with 3D images and videoes from the Apollo landings.

Fire and smoke light up a blue sky as a  Delta II Heavy rocket propels NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission into space. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida was at 3:08:52 UT Sept.10.