NASA prepares to bomb the moon
US: NASA is preparing a violent return to the moon Friday as
part of a mission to send a satellite and a rocket booster crashing into
the planet's surface to look for water.
Conspiracy theories aside - a 'do not bomb the moon' website is
already campaigning against the move - there is no actual bomb, but the
US space agency's LCROSS satellite and heavier Centaur upper-stage
rocket will still leave huge impact sites where NASA hopes to find
evidence of water or ice. WASHINGTON, Friday, AFP |