NASA is planning to bomb the Moon, page 1

NASA is planning spectacular mission to bomb the Moon
www.mirror.co.uk...

A space mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral today carrying a missile that will fire a hole deep in the lunar surface.

But this is no gung-ho display of firepower – it is actually a serious quest for water.

Nasa scientists expect the blast to send out a plume of debris visible from Earth.

They want to see if any water or vapour is revealed in the huge space cloud.

Here we go!
www.youtube.com...

First of allit is not a bomb.

LCROSS, on the other hand, will guide an empty upper stage on a collision course with a permanently shaded crater in an effort to kick up evidence of water at the moon's poles. LCROSS itself will also impact the lunar surface during its course of study.

It is just the upper stage of rocket. It does not contain some fancy explosives and stuff.

See mission overview in the webpage

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www.usatoday.com...
According to this article the mission will cost $583 million.

Originally posted by BetweenMyths
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www.usatoday.com...
According to this article the mission will cost $583 million.

pocket change compared to the bailouts. Just think of the potential that money could of had.

It all seems a bit cave manesque way of detecting water on the moon. throwing a big missile at it.

If there are aliens, they must view us like we view the monkey using a rock to crack a nut

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Take a look at the LCROSS website.

LCROSS

There was a video some time back in the NASA website regarding public participation to view the impact. I couldnt find the video. But on the impact date and time, take you telescope or binocular and focus on the southern pole of the moon. And you will be able to see a brief glow from the impact.

Note to everyone:LRO and LCROSS are completely different missions with different objectives; launched on the same rocket. Not to be confused as one single mission.

[edit on June 18th, 2009 by peacejet]

Ok ,lookie here !!!

LCROSS

Before humans contemplated charting a path to the stars, early explorers used the stars to chart routes to the unknown: new fishing grounds, ports of trade and uncharted lands.

The NASA Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission and NASA Quest are inviting students in grades 5-8 to participate in part one of the NASA Quest Challenge: "Exploration Through Navigation." This two-part challenge asks students the question, "How will you stay on course?"

The first part of the challenge follows the lead of the ancient Polynesians, who charted a course from the Big Island of Hawaii to the Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, a treacherous 4,500-mile route across open ocean. These early navigators loaded their families and meager provisions into ocean-going canoes with the stars in the sky as their guide. The slightest navigation error meant almost certain doom.

The unmanned LCROSS mission – it stands for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite – will fire a Centaur rocket into the surface at twice the speed of a bullet.

An accompanying spacecraft will orbit the moon for a year looking for possible landing sites for astronauts.

Same sattelite but two difrent topics, from navigation to moon bombing!
Maybe they have upgraded the mission ? and why the need to teach 5 graders too operate space craft ? add ten years they be 15 and maybe astronauts, since there are no more ... ... .. .. around ! ??

[edit on 18-6-2009 by ChemBreather]

Here's a bit more info
blogs.nasa.gov...

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Dude, now what is the problem with the kids challenge contest. It is refering to the star navigation used by almost all space craft which is similar to the ones used by sailors in the old days.

celestial navigation

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Nothing wrong with that, I was just wondering if there an back agenda here.

I think teaching yousters space vehicle operations is swell, the 'future' is the kids after all..

Originally posted by peacejet
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Take a look at the LCROSS website.

LCROSS

There was a video some time back in the NASA website regarding public participation to view the impact. I couldnt find the video. But on the impact date and time, take you telescope or binocular and focus on the southern pole of the moon. And you will be able to see a brief glow from the impact.

Note to everyone:LRO and LCROSS are completely different missions with different objectives; launched on the same rocket. Not to be confused as one single mission.

[edit on June 18th, 2009 by peacejet]

10q, the site is awesome..one question...why it will take 111 days for impact?...its quite a bit of time..why not 7 days or so?

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During space missions, some missions are designed in such a way that the space craft doesnt leave the earth directly and travel towards the moon. Instead they launch into space with elliptical orbit. The elliptical orbit has an apogee and perigee. Perigee is the closest approach with respect to earth and apogee is the farthest distance with respect to earth.

So, over the days the space craft will adjust its orbit to increase its apogee steadily and eventually get captured by the moons orbit.

The Shepherding Spacecraft and Centaur rocket are launched together with another spacecraft called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). All three are connected to each other for launch, but then the LRO separates one hour after launch. The Shepherding Spacecraft guides the Centaur rocket through multiple Earth orbits, each taking about 38 days. The rocket then separates from the Shepherding Spacecraft and impacts the Moon at more than twice the speed of a bullet, causing an impact that results in a big plume or cloud of lunar debris, and possibly water.

Take a look at the earth orbit movie in the web page.

Mission

These are all amazing wonders of our technological capability. It is only that we fail to appreciate these wonders.

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ask the fed LOL!!

sorry i couldn't resist

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