With three of its six instruments on board, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is finally taking shape. But the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center team building the nearly $600 million spacecraft still is awaiting delivery of two important mapping instruments and a small experimental payload. Craig Tooley, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter program manager, said in a March 28 e-mail that two instruments - the Lyman-Al-pha Mapping Project and the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment - had been installed successfully in the past month and that a third instrument, a cosmic ray telescope built by Boston University, was ready for installation.
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