NASA to Fire a Rocket Into the Moon Today: Follow it on Twitter!

[anon]

We're going back to the moon today- to blow it up! NASA's LCROSS craft at this very moment is on its way for the highly scientific mission of "smashing into the moon at nine thousand kilometers an hour". The next time someone says science is boring, feel free to laugh at them.

The purpose of the mission is to discover whether there's frozen water in the craters near the moon's south pole. If water is indeed found, it could have very important implications for further human missions on the moon, as a potential source for oxygen (you know why we need that) and hydrogen (for rocket fuel).

LCROSS' launch date is today; it's scheduled to launch at about 08:30 PDT. What's totally cool about this mission is the fact that NASA is providing several of ways to follow the launch and the mission during the next four months. If everything goes as planned, LCROSS should impact the moon in about 111 days. NASA promises the moon won't be damaged (hummm), but you never know -there might be a Dr. Strangelove on the team.

NASA to Fire a Rocket Into the Moon Today: Follow it on Twitter! (LAUNCH VIDEO)

[slikrapid]

there has been much speculation whether the first NASA mission in 1969 landed at the moon at all or was it all just a staged deception

its very interesting, or suspicious if you like that all these years there was no big interest in the moon and thats like 40 years, and now they want to find water there, sounds somewhat dubious

the next usa mission with human astronauts should go to the moon in 2020