NASA is turning science fiction into fact

As a new moon orbiter gets set to launch, Pete Worden, director of NASA Ames, says forget the 20th – this is the real space century What will NASA's new lunar orbiter do? The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is a $250-million mission to probe the moon's exosphere and learn how it would be affected by increased human activity. It is also a low-cost modular probe, which will serve as a test bed for future cheap space missions. What other cool missions are you working on? We are soon...