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The two GRAIL spacecraft bound for the moon are due to launch onboard a Delta II rocket today. It can be watched here

There is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein

Longest mission I ever LANDED was around 9 hours 30 minutes. I just recorded me launching and orbiting once, then went to work. (HDD space would have been filled if I recorded the entire mission, sorry) when I came back I started recording again and landed. Botched the reentry though and didn't land close to the pad. But at least it was on the same continent.

If you enjoy explosions then you're in for quite a show because the N1 is the current leader in bad rockets with a stunning 100% failure rate. Russians weren't always the underdogs, america only pulled ahead in the 'space race' with project Gemini, a lead only furthered by Apollo.