On This Day in Space! Dec. 17, 2012: NASA’s 2 GRAIL orbiters slam into the moon

December 17, 2021

Artists principle of the two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon. (Image credit: Lockheed Martin )They orbited the moon in tandem to map the moons gravity field. Still not enough space?

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