Physical Description: (16 folders of textual materials and 990 digital items totaling approximately 39.5 gigabytes.)
Scope and Content Note
This series contains records cleared for public release that were accumulated by Project Control Manager Stephan Ord. The
bulk of this series is electronic ("born digital"), as submitted, and falls into ten categories, representing the top-level
file directory structure.
- - The
Booklets and
Fact Sheets categories include informational material about the mission, spacecraft, launch architecture, and the moon that was generated
for the general public by NASA, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance. This part of the collection consists of a twenty-page
informational booklet along with single-page handouts.
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Images category contains photographic material and illustrations generated by the Public Affairs Office. This part of the collection
consists of directories holding sets of individual image files, with most sets grouped into a PowerPoint presentation. Subjects
represented include the mission teams; the spacecraft, launch architecture and instrument components; teams assembling the
spacecraft in clean rooms; transportation of the spacecraft to Cape Canaveral; preparation for and execution of the launch;
the project team in the mission operations control room at NASA Ames; and mission staff, Ames employees, and the public working
and reveling on the night LCROSS impacted the moon.
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Kids' Stuff category is comprised of material designed to appeal to children. This part of the collection consists of an LCROSS coloring
book, a video game, and a punch-out-and-fold paper model kit.
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Papers category contains documents related to technical papers delivered before and after the mission. Topics include mission project
management, transportation, and use of a Centaur rocket in space, communications, flight operations, flight team development,
ground system development, trajectory design and orbit determination, and mission design. Authors include Richard Alena, Daniel
Andrews, Robert Barber, John Bresina, Anthony Colaprete, D. Steven Cooley, Dean Dailey, Eric Drucker, Howard Eller, Darin
Foreman, Brian Kennedy, Amy Lo, Louie T. Luzod, Tim McElrath, Bernard Morgowicz, James Munger, Matthew D'Ortenzio, Khaled
(Ken) Galal, Rusty Hunt, Scott Sawyer, Mark Shirley, James Strong, Paul Tompkins, Nho Vo, and James Wehner. The bulk of the
material is technical papers and associated PowerPoint presentations prepared for American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
technical conferences in 2010.
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Posters category contains two posters produced by NASA, one featuring LCROSS and the other featuring both LCROSS and LRO.
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Presentations category contains a few mission briefings and overviews dated from 2007-2010, and NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden's
remarks at the 2009 Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Statements and Articles category includes NASA and Northrop Grumman news releases, and article content for
Space Times and
Aerospace Now dated from 2008-2010.
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Videos and Music category contains video footage, computer-generated animations, and television coverage describing or depicting the mission,
including programs produced by NASA, Northrop Grumman, the Public Broadcasting Service of the United States (NOVA, Science
Channel) and Northern California (KQED Quest), CBS News (60 Minutes), and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Of note are
the music and video files of the LCROSS theme song entitled "Water on the Moon," which was composed and performed by Deputy
Project Manager, John Marmie.
Document and still image formats: Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX), Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX),
Portable Document Format (PDF), Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Stereolithography (STL), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF),
Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Audio and video formats: Audio Video Interleave (AVI), Backup (BUP), Flash Video (FLV), Information (IFO), Motion Picture
Editors Guild Video (MPEG-4, M4V, MPG), QuickTime Movie (QT, MOV), Unix Executable, USR, VirtualDub Video Filter (VDF), DVD
Video Object (VOB), Windows Wave audio (WAV), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Windows Media Video (WMV).