Concept Overview

The American Student Moon Orbiter (ASMO) is in the concept phase within the NASA Office of Education and is focused on providing unique opportunities for hands-on involvement in U.S. space exploration to next generation explorers.

As conceived the ASMO concept could be carried out as a diverse nationwide NASA education initiative with the fundamental premise that university participants, and not NASA, would design, build, launch, operate, and own the ASMO spacecraft and its payloads. Under the current concept, NASA would provide mentoring and other educational enrichment. ASMO could also feature pipeline succession planning via a mentoring system whereby ASMO university participants would mentor K-12 students in customized educational activities relating to the ASMO mission.