Friday
Jul172009
NASA Maps Out Future Of Lunar Exploration
Friday, July 17, 2009 at 3:59PM
By Courtney Costello-Talk Radio News Service
Forty years after the first man walked on the moon, NASA officials are celebrating the past and looking toward the future. A new program launched on June 18th, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, has been taking new images of the lunar surface in an attempt to create a map of the moon for future missions. In addition it has also taken photos of the Apollo landing sites.
“This is the first time Apollo hardware has been imaged by anyone in the post Apollo era,” said Richard Vondrak, Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter program during a conference call with reporters Friday.
Images can be found at www.nasa.gov/lro
Forty years after the first man walked on the moon, NASA officials are celebrating the past and looking toward the future. A new program launched on June 18th, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, has been taking new images of the lunar surface in an attempt to create a map of the moon for future missions. In addition it has also taken photos of the Apollo landing sites.
“This is the first time Apollo hardware has been imaged by anyone in the post Apollo era,” said Richard Vondrak, Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter program during a conference call with reporters Friday.
Images can be found at www.nasa.gov/lro
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