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Of course LCROSS was the first NASA mission with it's own official NASA Rock song! It is called "Water On the Moon" and is performed and written by LCROSS Deputy Project Manager John Marmie! Performed by John Marmie and Jeff Petro."
The song starts about 1:30 into the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wym1xL5qacw
Ping.
Bump
That they crahed into an alien building hidden in the shadows of the crater?
LOL
Now lets get back there. However, if it’s either Mars or moon, I’d say push on to Mars. If possible to do both, then great. If not, lets focus on Mars.
Hey, wait: I read an article on this forum last night that announced they found no water of any kind. What’s up with this? Did they invent water to keep their own tap flowing? What’s the truth?
I have been wondering what the results were from the “LCROSS” mission. Since we hadn’t heard anything back from it, I assumed no ice was found.
I wonder if Ice formed in space would be consumable, even after decontamination/purification. Who knows what could be in it that we have no clue about.
Ice is fine but I ain’t making travel plans until they find vodka.
That does not sound like that much when you consider how big the moon is.
NASA's Smoking Gun: Part II LCROSS' (and LRO's) Secret NASA Mission to the Moon ....ExcerptThe pre-impact NASA public relations campaign was irresistible ... and everywhere.
For perhaps only the second time in its history (the first was Deep Impact, but that was MUCH further away ...), the Space Agency was publicly inviting "ordinary people" -- from every class, economic strata and age-group -- to participate in a unique, extraordinary, literally once-in-a-lifetime personal space experience--
The spectacular crash of a "NASA spaceship" directly into the surface of the Moon ... with millions of Americans watching LIVE with their own eyes as it took place (below)!
At least, that's what everyone (with more than a bit of help from some spectacular NASA and contractor animations - above) thought they were being invited to observe ....
In fact, when both LCROSS spacecraft did hit the Moon -- early Friday morning, October 9th, at 7:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time--
No One ... anywhere on Earth -- from the most psyched amateur to the professionals at the largest terrestrial observatories, even to the Hubble Space Telescope itself in close Earth orbit -- none of these folks or instruments saw ANYTHING actually hit the surface of the south pole of the Moon!
Instead, despite literally millions of Americans eagerly watching ... straining to see something ... in reality, the only "direct observer" of this entire, over-hyped NASA affair, was--
NASA!
Yea, Big deal.
There are far more important issues at hand, like welfare for the poor and unfortunate....And Africa.
Come on man, Get with the picture.
Either you are with us or against us.
Ice? woo! Now we need to give billions of dollars in tax money to nasa so that we can beat the rest of the world to the inevitable “race for the ice.”
My children will dream of a day when man skates on the moon.
Strange Brew at LCROSS’s Crash Site
Sky and Telescope | November 3, 2009 | Kelly Beatty
Posted on 11/08/2009 8:25:37 PM PST by MikeD
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