Lunar Cruise Day 1

The MCC went extremely well. We'll have the definitive report on how well our course was adjusted within a few hours.

Our next milestone is huge...Lunar Orbit Insertion #1 (LOI-1). This 40-minute burn will take place very early on Tuesday morning (6/23). If we succeed, we'll settle into orbit. If we fail, we'll sail past the Moon into deep space.

In the meantime, we'll be switching a couple of the science instruments on and doing some checkout. I also expect to receive updated calibration parameters for the star trackers and the gyroscopes. Launch vibrations may have affected their positioning slightly with respect to the rest of the spacecraft. We can tell the onboard computer how to compensate for this effect. The uplinked product is very similar in form to what we uplinked for the burn today, but is not a quick-turnaround requirement, so I will create it by building them in the flight software, rather than using our customized generation process employed for the burn products.