NASA Crashes Rocket Into Moon

by October 11, 2009 2262 Views

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The NASA LCROSS mission reached its conclusion approximately two days ago, when two spacecraft slammed into the surface of the moon.

The results were less spectacular than they promised to be: no water was found, and because the collision was in a crater, it was not possible to see the results of the Centaur booster crashing down “at a speed five times faster than a bullet from a .44 Magnum.”

However, this was about science, not astronomically expensive fireworks shows, and the science part of the mission managed to confirm that the water that they hoped to find was not there.

A much longer version of the crash landing video

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C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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  • NASA Aims to Crash Rocket Into Moon | We Interrupt
    11 October 2009 at 6:49 pm
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    […] Check out video of the Centaur’s crash landing and the last seconds of LCROSS. The crash will mark the end of a four-month mission for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing […]

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