LRO: Mapping Our Future
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's planned return to the moon. LRO is an unmanned mission to create the comprehensive atlas of the moon's features and resources necessary to design all future lunar exploration efforts. LRO focuses on the selection of safe landing sites, identification of lunar resources and the study of how lunar radiation will affect humans.
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Some of the lunar visualization used in this video uses elevation data from JAXA/SELENE.
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Video editor
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
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Interviewees
- Richard Vondrak (NASA/GSFC)
- Craig Tooley (NASA/GSFC)
- Cathy Peddie (NASA/GSFC)
- John Keller (NASA/GSFC)
- Dana Hurley (SwRI)
- Ashwin Vasavada (NASA/JPL CalTech)
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Producer
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
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Project support
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
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Videographers
- Erica Drezek (HTSI)
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
- Chris Smith (HTSI)
- Michelle Williams (UMBC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, May 21, 2009.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.
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LRO Overview
(ID: 2009032)
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Jesse Allen (Raytheon)