Two private companies are competing to be the first commercial flights to land on the moon, with technologies developed at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton set to be launched into space. If successful, this will mark the first U.S. moon landing since NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
In the next few weeks, the technologies will be launched aboard two flights under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
The technologies developed at NASA Langley Research Center are set to play a crucial role in these historic missions. Farzin Amzajerdian, the principal investigator for Navigation Doppler Lidar, explained the function of the NDL in the Measurement Systems Laboratory at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, emphasizing the significance of these technologies in the upcoming lunar missions.
