Skeleton Crew gets LADEE in Orbit, Checked Out and Fires Revolutionary Laser During Gov't Shutdown

NASA's new LADEE spacecraft successfully entered lunar orbit, is operating beautifully and has begun shooting its radical laser communications experiment despite having to accomplish a series of absolutely critical do-or-die orbital insertion engine firings with a "skeleton crew " – all this amidst the NASA and US government shutdown, NASA Ames Research Center Director Pete […]