Anybody else see the rocket hit the moon this morning?
I get the NASA channel, so I got to see it live. The major cable news channels were carrying it, too.
Not much to 'write home about'. Guess it mostly proves it can be done without screwing things up too awfully bad. :whistle:

This is what I got off of Yahoo news............WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA has successfully bulldozed two spacecraft into the moon's south pole in a search for hidden ice, but without the promised live photos.

First a 2.2-ton empty rocket hull smacked the moon's south pole at 7:31 a.m. EDT Friday. Then four minutes later the camera-and-instrument laden space probe made its death plunge.

The smaller probe had five cameras and four other scientific instruments and NASA had touted live photos on its web site. But those images didn't occur. NASA officials say they are sure the two probes crashed and looking to see what happened to the pictures. Pictures were live until seconds before impact.

The intentional crashes had been expected to kick up miles of lunar dust. The space probe is called LCROSS, short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.

Revealed: The flash nobody saw when Nasa's £49million 'bomb' crashed into the Moon in a quest to discover water.

By David Derbyshire and Claire Bates
Last updated at 9:26 PM on 10th October 2009


It was billed as one of the most ambitious missions in the history of space exploration - two spacecraft smashing into the surface of Moon and creating a six-mile high cloud of dust visible from telescopes on the Earth.

Instead there was disappointment for millions as live pictures relayed back from the Moon showed no sign of an impact.

Now, however, Nasa has released a photograph showing the flash of light as its massive Centaur rocket struck the lunar surface.

Open this safe link for more of the article and for some great pictures, too. :thumb:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art...over-water.html

It really gives a good perspective of just how huge the moon really is! :newlmao: