On March 29, 2019, Piers Sellers’s friends and colleagues at Goddard celebrated his life and work with a colloquium: “Our Years with Piers.” Host Compton Tucker reminisced about decades of friendship with the beloved scientist, astronaut and science communicator. Musicians also performed a unique composition inspired by Sellers’ observations in space. Guy Sellers, Piers’ brother, recounted their childhood in Britain and colleagues traveled from near and far to participate in the symposium.
The agency’s Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation, or DALI, program recently awarded 10 teams each about $4 million in funding to mature spacecraft based instruments for use in future lander missions including those offered by commercial ventures. These instruments, which are supposed to have reached a high level of technology readiness by the time funding ends in three years, will support scientific investigations, human exploration, lunar mining, and other in-situ lunar-resource activities.
Of the 10 awards, half went to teams involving Goddard experts, who are either serving as principal investigators or co-investigators. The five teams are Submillimeter Solar Observation Lunar Volatiles Experiment (SSOLVE), Characterization of Regolith and Trace Economic Resources (CRATER), Bulk Elemental Composition Analyzer (BECA), Potassium-Argon Laser Experiment (KArLE), and Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS). Congratulations to these teams! Read more starting at page 5 of Cutting Edge.
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