SFGate: A California spacecraft, bound for deliberate doom inside a crater on the moon, is scheduled to soar into space today, along with a lunar orbiter searching for safe landing sites where humans might one day establish Earth's first colony.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Moon mission looking at possible colony sites
SFGate: A California spacecraft, bound for deliberate doom inside a crater on the moon, is scheduled to soar into space today, along with a lunar orbiter searching for safe landing sites where humans might one day establish Earth's first colony.In early October, the spacecraft will send a heavy rocket crashing into the moon's south polar region on a mission to find water that could support future crews bound for Mars.
The water-seeking mission was conceived, developed and now is controlled by space scientists and engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
Their spacecraft bears the unwieldy name of LCROSS - the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite - and in a sense is merely hitching a ride on an Atlas rocket whose main job is to launch NASA's new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. That spacecraft will spend at least a year creating the most minutely detailed map of the moon's surface ever seen.
Flying over the moon's southern hemisphere, LCROSS will use its high-precision instruments, as well as close-up images of the terrain gathered by the lunar orbiter, to seek out a crater just shallow enough and dark enough to be a prime bombing target.
There, acting as what the Ames team calls its "shepherding spacecraft," LCROSS will guide an empty Centaur rocket weighing two tons toward its target. The rocket will crash into the crater at 5,600 mph, creating a new crater - perhaps as large as 5 miles wide. The crash is scheduled to occur Oct. 9.
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The rocket will crash into the crater at 5,600 mph, creating a new crater – perhaps as large as 5 miles wide?
ReplyDeleteWTF!
Holy sh** ! Is this supposed to be something good and cool? It scares the hell outta me! Add this to my list of things to worry about... deadly flu vaccines, the police state, chemtrails, HAARP, nuclear war...........
ReplyDeleteNot content with screwing-up one heavenly body we can't help ourselves.
ReplyDeleteColonize other planets, ha! We can't live in peace on this one.
Mining the Moon.....
ReplyDeleteThis is all about steps being taken in the race to mine the moon for its abuntant supply of H3.....
An element not found on earth except in plutonium waste. It is important because experiments have shown that H3 is the key to developing viable cold fusion energy. It is ejected form the sun and has been building up on the surface of the moon for untold millenia. There is an international effort to be the first to extract and transport significant quantities back to earth, as the first country to achieve this goal can exert tremendous control over the rest of the energy starved planet. Cool huh?
What to make of this? How would we know whether it is true or not?
ReplyDeleteNot that it means anything, Alfred Lambremont Webre was recently on with radio talk show host Thom Hartmann. However, anything is possible?
U.S. astronauts, NASA employees, Soviet scientists, NSA confirm the extraterrestrial presence on the moon?
http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m6d19-NASA-moon-bombing-violates-space-law--may-cause-conflict-with-lunar-extraterrestrial-civilizations