Moon Mission Provides Students with Unique Opportunity

When NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 18, 2009, students in the Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) program were ready.The GAVRT program students have a unique resource: a massive 34-meter radio telescope used for exploration of the universe; and the students are using it to