GRACE is part of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise, whose mission is to understand and protect our home planet. It is a joint partnership between NASA in the United States, and the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) in Germany. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Byron Tapley of the University of Texas Center for Space Research (UTCSR), and the Co-Principal Investigator is Dr. Christoph Reigber of the GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ). NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has responsibility for the Project Management of GRACE, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center maintains responsibility for Mission Management.
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