Emily Lakdawalla • Jun 06, 2013
Launch is coming! LADEE arrives at Wallops
LADEE has arrived at its launch facility! The spacecraft was successfully delivered to NASA Wallops on June 4. Here are a couple of photos of the delivery.
![LADEE delivered to NASA Wallops](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x800_crop_center-center_82_line/20130605_ladee_arrival_offload.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x512_crop_center-center_60_line/20130605_ladee_arrival_offload.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x384_crop_center-center_60_line/20130605_ladee_arrival_offload.jpg 576w)
There's something that tickles my funny bone about this rather pedestrian warehouse forklift with the retro-cool 1970's NASA "worm" logo painted on the side. It is, of course, doing something totally non-pedestrian: moving a hundreds-million-dollar spacecraft from a truck to a clean room. It still makes me chuckle. I'll bet this forklift totally lords it over other forklifts at the annual forklift convention. If forklifts had conventions. Okay, I'll stop now.
![LADEE delivered to NASA Wallops](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x800_crop_center-center_82_line/20130605_ladee_arrival_offload.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x512_crop_center-center_60_line/20130605_ladee_arrival_offload.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x384_crop_center-center_60_line/20130605_ladee_arrival_offload.jpg 576w)
LADEE is the next planetary mission launch, scheduled for September 5, 2013, three months from now. Tick tick tick!
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