NASA Takes Aim At The Moon

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Scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon's South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice.

The Earth-on-moon violence may raise eyebrows, but NASA's history shows that such missions can yield extremely useful scientific observations.


"I think that people are apprehensive about it because it seems violent or crude, but it's very economical," said Tony Colaprete, the principal investigator for the mission at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

Visit the above link for the full story. This sounds a bit odd to me. Not sure what to think or why we are spending so much money to find out if there is water on the moon.

because if there's water on the moon....then you can sustain life and live on the moon....it's definately a desire of our goverment agencies to try and develop inhabited moon locales..

Colaprete... didn't he used to be a SETI dude? Hmmm. NASA Bio. Mission homepage. NASA spacecraft system description.

Vic



[edit on 27-2-2008 by V Kaminski]