Ned Potter reports on ABCnews.com that NASA will crash a craft on the Moon early this October:
"If we find water there, it will change the course of exploration," said Rusty Hunt of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. "If there's water near the south pole, we'd go there. The people who settled the old West were able to live off the land, so to speak, and we'd do the same."
Hunt is a flight director for a mission called LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite), which was launched in June, and is scheduled to crash into the floor of a crater near the lunar south pole on the morning of Oct. 9.
This mission is being decried by some as a "bombing" of the Moon, taking place on noted space enthusiast (and UFO witness) John Lennon's birthday.
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