LRO Completes Mapping
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will move into full-time science operations this week after finishing a year-long mapping mission Sept. 16. Control of the 2,200-lb. spacecraft shifts from the space agency’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate to the Science Mission Directorate, which...
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