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NASA’s return to the Moon requires careful preparation. Finding safe landing sites, locating potential resources, and taking measurements of the radiation environment are some of the tasks the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft will perform while in lunar orbit. LRO is an unmanned mission that will create a comprehensive atlas of the moon’s surface and resources.
NASA will launch another lunar scouting spacecraft on the same Atlas V rocket with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO): the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). This mission is not a typical scouting mission.
In 1999, a precursor of LRO and LCROSS called the Lunar Prospector detected traces of concentrated hydrogen at the lunar poles. As a result, the LCROSS mission\’s main goal is to confirm the presence or absence of water in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. At the present time, landing a probe on the lunar surface and performing excavations or drilling would be very expensive. A less expensive solution for the LCROSS mission is to use a kinetic impactor to excavate a crater on the surface of the Moon.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). While Hubble looks at the sky in the visible and ultraviolet light, JWST will operate in the infrared. JWST is a joint mission of NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency.
The project started in 1996 and was initially known as the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST). In 2002, the project was renamed the James Webb Space Telescope in honor of NASA administrator James E. Webb, who led the agency from February 1961 to October 1968.
NASA’s return to the Moon requires careful preparation. Finding safe landing sites, locating potential resources, and taking measurements of the radiation environment are some of the tasks the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft will perform while in lunar orbit. LRO is an unmanned mission that will create a comprehensive atlas of the moon’s surface and resources.
Soyuz TMA-15, launched from Baikonur on May 27, 2009, docked to the International Space Station on May 29, 2009. The crew aboard ISS now consists of six astronauts.
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