[FPSPACE] From today's Flight International

[Paolo Ulivi]

Apollo site in NASA sights

Lunar module descent stages from the Apollo programme era could be 
photographed where they remain on the Moon during the first robotic 
mission to be carried out under USPresident George Bush's Project 
Constellation exploration initiative.

A high-resolution camera on the first of NASA's robot lunar probes, the 
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), could take the photographs while 
carrying out its mapping mission in 2008. NASA's Surveyor landers that 
pre-date Apollo, and the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 lunar rovers, could also 
be photographed. Although payload decisions for the LRO will not be made 
until November, Lockheed Martin has revealed details of the probe it is 
offering NASA.

Lockheed Martin vice-president for space exploration John Karas says: "I 
would anticipate for LRO a resolution of 40-20cm. With that you could 
find the Surveyors left in the 1960s."