Mon, May 05, 2008
LRO Will Carry Names Submitted To Website
You bet we've already added our names to this list. NASA invites
people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey, with an
opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.
The "Send Your Name to the Moon" website enables everyone to
participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit
around the moon for years to come. Participants can submit their
information, print a certificate (shown below) and have their name
entered into a database. The database will be placed on a microchip
that will be integrated onto the spacecraft. The deadline for
submitting names is June 27, 2008.
"Everyone who sends their name to the moon, like I'm doing,
becomes part of the next wave of lunar explorers," said Cathy
Peddie, deputy project manager for LRO at NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. "The LRO mission is the first step
in NASA's plans to return humans to the moon by 2020, and your name
can reach there first. How cool is that?"
The orbiter, comprised of six instruments and one technology
demonstration, will provide the most comprehensive data set ever
returned from the moon. The mission will focus on the selection of
safe landing sites and identification of lunar resources. It also
will study how the lunar radiation environment could affect
humans.
LRO will also create a comprehensive atlas of the moon's
features and resources that will be needed as NASA designs and
builds a planned lunar outpost. The mission will support future
human exploration while providing a foundation for upcoming science
missions. LRO is scheduled for launch in late 2008.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is being built at Goddard. The
mission also will be managed at the center for NASA's Explorations
Systems Mission Directorate in Washington.
Send Your Name to the Moon is a collaborative effort among NASA,
the Planetary Society in Pasadena, CA, and the Johns Hopkins
Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD.
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