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Sensor System to Gauge Effects of Cosmic Rays on Lunar Explorers Boston University Professor Harlan Spence recently joined five other space scientists at Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland to discuss their participation in NASA`s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program.Spence learned in late December that his proposal for CRaTER, an instrument that will measure and characterize the potential biological effects of cosmic radiation on humans, was one of six selected by the space agency for the LRO mission scheduled for fall 2008.
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