Montana 4th Grade Class Names NASA's Lunar Spacecraft Twins

NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft have new names, thanks to some enthusiastic 4th graders from Bozeman, Montana who reveal the names in dramatic fashion. The two spacecraft were previously known as GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B.
The students came up with the name and wrote the winning essay in this nationwide contest. As a prize, they will be the first classroom to target the MoonKAM cameras on board the spacecraft.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NASA
• JPL
• Jet
• Propulsion
• Laboratory
• Moon
• Space
• Lunar
• GRAIL
• spacecraft
• students
• Ebb
• Flow

[chaalz77]

Enthusiastic teachers like this are the ones that inspire kids to become something greater than they ever thought they could become. At a MINIMUM, there is a science conversation going on in that classroom! #STEM

[GoneToPlaid]

Those kids came up with brilliantly appropriate yet simple names for the GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B spacecraft.

[matt1888a]

I liked GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B better

[DarkAsgaro]

Haha, that teacher is quite... amused :)

[alexandrianeloquence]

every time i see these videos in my inbox i'm like what's JPLnews? and then i click on it and I'm like.. ooh nasa, space... i love space :)

[customerjon]

Way to go young ones!



[chmellen]

Carl from Calif. says congratulations.

[lanceand]

My adult brain could only think of mature names like Eeny & Meeny or Cartman & Kyle. Thank goodness there were 4th graders on the case. Being able to control a camera going around the Moon is extremely cool.

[cmsalvagio]

i love that teacher's awkward enthusiasm! very cool