Officials at NASA say they are now entering a new stage of a mission intended to place a pair of probes around Earth’s nearest neighbor and only satellite. In a statement issued earlier this week, NASA mission controllers say they are preparing for the twin spaceships, named Grail-A and Grail-B, to enter the moon’s orbit over the weekend, the space agency’s latest attempt to send probes to the moon.

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