The Lunar Scout Program: an international program to survey the Moon from orbit for geochemistry, mineralogy, imagery, geodesy, and gravity

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Apr 1994

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Report, 1991 - 1993 National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX.

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Geological Surveys, Lunar Geology, Lunar Programs, Lunar Satellites, Mission Planning, Planetary Mapping, Lunar Gravitation, Lunar Gravitational Effects, Lunar Orbits, Lunar Topography, Mineralogy

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The Lunar Scout Program was one of a series of attempts by NASA to develop and fly an orbiting mission to the moon to collect geochemical, geological, and gravity data. Predecessors included the Lunar Observer, the Lunar Geochemical Orbiter, and the Lunar Polar Orbiter - missions studied under the auspices of the Office of Space Science. The Lunar Scout Program, however, was an initiative of the Office of Exploration. It was begun in late 1991 and was transferred to the Office of Space Science after the Office of Exploration was disbanded in 1993. Most of the work was done by a small group of civil servants at the Johnson Space Center; other groups also responsible for mission planning included personnel from the Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Boeing, and Martin Marietta. The Lunar Scout Program failed to achieve new start funding in FY 93 and FY 94 as a result of budget downturns, the de-emphasis of the Space Exploration Initiative, and the fact that lunar science did not rate as high a priority as other planned planetary missions, and was cancelled. The work done on the Lunar Scout Program and other lunar orbiter studies, however, represents assets that will be useful in developing new approaches to lunar orbit science.

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