In 2022, Louisiana State University (LSU) will be the first university in the world to put technology on the Moon. The Tiger Eye 1 research mission is part of a multi-disciplinary university-industry collaboration to make future space travel safer for people and equipment by providing insight into the complex radiation environment in space. LSU’s radiation detection device is now officially on the manifest for the broader IM-1 mission, the first in a series of commercial flights (and the first-ever to land on the Moon) that will bring science and technology to the lunar surface through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. This will also be the first time the U.S. lands on the Moon since 1972 and the Apollo program.
Tiger Eye 1 logo in International Space Station
LSU Assistant Professor Jeffery Chancellor, faculty lead for the Tiger Eye 1 mission, holds six NASA grants (including two from LaSpace and two from the Translational Research Institute for Space Health, or TRISH, both NASA-funded) and has previously provided the go/no-go recommendation for NASA space missions. By being on the approved sender list, he was able to email the LSU Tiger Eye 1 mission logo design up to the International Space Station and astronaut Shannon Walker who took a picture of it on her iPad, mounted in the clear glass cupola with Earth in the background
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