it took a while to get it lined up just right..
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LCROSS Launch Information
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/launch/index.html
The LRO and LCROSS spacecraft were tucked inside the payload fairing at the top of the rocket to protect them from atmospheric heating as the rocket climbed through the atmosphere toward space. The fairing separated as planned and LRO pushed away from LCROSS and the Centaur stage on its way to going into orbit around the moon.
The LCROSS probe remained attached to the Centaur and will steer the empty rocket stage for about four months as mission controllers line up LCROSS and Centaur to collide with the moon in an effort to determine conclusively whether water exists on the lunar surface.
LCROSS is equipped with sensors to evaluate the plume from the Centaur stage when it hits the moon. Then LCROSS will fly through the plume before crashing into the lunar surface to kick up a second plume.
This is aimed at that crater where they think ice might reside?
I built some hardware for this (the wiring harness that connects all the sensors). It’ll be pretty neat to see my stuff get splatted all over the surface of the moon.