NASA has selected 24 scientists to initiate new investigations and assist with planned measurements to be conducted by the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
LRO and SDO will be the first missions to use a new antenna network at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico.
The LRO will travel to the moon in late fall 2008, mapping the surface to help pave the way for humans to return.
Goddard is ready to start building the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter