Posts Tagged ‘LCROSS’
Crowd gathers at Chabot to see NASA’s rocket and probe crash into moon
After nearly four months of spaceflight, the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission sacrificed itself for science Friday morning and the audience at Oakland’s Chabot Space and Science Center experienced the impact live.
Read MoreNASA moon rocket due to land at 4:30 a.m.
As you read this a satellite is rocketing at 2,668 mph on a one-way trip to the moon. Early Friday morning, NASA scientists plan to drive two pieces of the satellite into the surface of the moon to look for signs of water.
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