NASA HQ New A-Suite Visit

Senior leaders with Kennedy Space Center in Florida, familiarize newly appointed officials from NASA Headquarters with the center’s facilities during a tour on April 19, 2021. The group views research and technology experiments in the Space Station Processing Facility. Janine Captain, the principal investigator for the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations, or MSolo, briefs the team about the commercial off the-shelf- mass spectrometer the team at Kennedy has hardened for lunar operations. MSolo will be part of four missions for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, including NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) and NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover or VIPER.