NASA Selects Mission To Map Interstellar Medium In Milky Way, Large Magellanic Cloud

NASA announced Saturday that it had, as part of its Explorers Program, selected a science mission to measure emissions from the interstellar medium within our galaxy. The mission, named Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO), will cost roughly $40 million and is scheduled for launch in 2021 from the McMurdo station in Antarctica.