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NASA Launching a Rocket to the Moon


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What has come to be known as the NASA Moon bombing is scheduled to take place in the early morning hours on Friday, October 9th, 2009. The idea is to impact a projectile into one of the permanently shadowed craters of the lunar South Pole to eject a stream of dust and other material which will hopefully include water vapor.

 

The NASA Moon bombing will be accomplished by the Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite or LCROSS for short, now currently flying with a Centaur rocket stage. LCROSS was launched earlier this year along with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, now orbiting the Moon.

 

Late tonight the Centaur and the LCROSS will separate, At about 7:30 AM Eastern Time, the Centaur will plow into the Cabeus Crater at a steep angle, kicking up a pillar of dust and other material. This event and the subsequent plume will be observed by nine scientific instruments on board the LCROSS before it too crashes into Cabeus.

 

Astronomers, both professional and amateur, will be able to observe the plume created by the crashes with Earth based telescopes. The Hubble telescope and other space based observatories will also attempt to observe the NASA Moon bombing. The NASA Channel will begin a live broadcast of the NASA Moon bombing at 6:30 AM Eastern time on Friday. Various cable news networks will break in closer to the NASA Moon bombing time.

 

Scientists have suspected for a long time that permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles contain ice, deposited over billions of years of comet strikes. Results from remote sensing and previous space probe crashes, such as Japan's Kaguya probe, Europe's Smart-1 and NASA's Lunar Prospector, have proven tantalizing but inconclusive.

 

Excitement about water on the Moon spiked a few weeks ago when it was confirmed that the Indian Lunar probe, the Chandrayaan-1 detected water molecules in lunar topsoil. The existence of water on the Moon would help to facilitate future lunar settlers, who would mine the water rather than have to transport it from Earth.

http://www.examiner.com/x-21670-Houston-Sp...ctober-9th-2009

 

Kinda surprised no one posted about this since NASA IS GONNA BOMB THE FUCKING MOON.

 

If your really geeky, your 24/7 news stations should be carrying it too:

 

LCROSS Lunar Impact

7:31 a.m. EDT/4:31 a.m. PDT

Friday Oct. 9

 

A live NASA TV Broadcast is planned for the LCROSS impacts starting at 6:15 a.m. EDT/3:15 a.m. PDT, Oct. 9, on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/ntv.

 

The 1.5 hour broadcast includes:

Live footage from spacecraft camera

Real-time telemetry based animation

Views of LCROSS Mission and Science Operations

Broadcast commentary with expert guests

Prepared video segments

Views of the public impact viewing event at NASA Ames

Possible live footage from the University of Hawaii, 88-inch telescope on Mauna Kea.

The live LCROSS Post-Impact News Conference will be 10 a.m. EDT/7 a.m. PDT on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/ntv

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

enjoy your end of the world scenario

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Just for moon water? the first person who drinks will either be immortal, famous, poisoned and purified enough to cure any type of disease...

 

Seriously, bombing the moon just for some water? Someone is too thirsty..

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I like it. Let's all live on the moon, but we're gonna blow it to shit first.

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The fuckers doing this shit dudes are deep intellects. Like they are born to think.

"Bombing" this shit is like a way of saying (considering they are looking for water) what the fuck did we miss?

If they find water on the moon they will all throw paper at one another in their classes.

Water on the moon after how many years from the first touch down? Its like digging for gold.

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