NASA Announces "Significant" Amount of Moon Water Discovered
On June 18, NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS mission lifted off aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, FL. With a body designed by Northrop Grumman and instruments designed by NASA's Ames Research Center (ARC), the spacecraft succeeded in sending an impact module slamming into the moon's southern Lunar crater Cabeus.
The Shepherding Rocket then flew through the over 350 tons of excavated material, relaying readings back to Earth, before making its own crash-landing on the Lunar surface. After a month of analysis, NASA announced the results at a triumphant press conference at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field near San Francisco, California.
