Old NASA Moon Orbiter Finds New Life for Artemis Lunar Landing Project

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From Space.com:
"NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched in 2009 and has been studying the moon ever since. Originally, the mission was just the first of a suite of lunar missions, designed to find places for humans to land on the moon. But LRO was launched with plans to be reclassified as a science mission one year in, and as that happened, NASA's interest in sending astronauts to the moon happened to wane as well. Nine years later, NASA is ready to comb through the mission's data for possible human landing sites after all."

https://www.space.com/nasa-lunar-reconn ... ities.html

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