Why is NASA set to literally shooting the moon, with a rocket in the early morning hours Friday?
Moon-Eyed, We Return With a Real Icebreaker NASA’s Craft, Booster Shot To Crash Into Polar Crater By Joel Achenbach Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 9, 2009 America is returning to the moon — violently. A rocket booster and a small spacecraft will crash into the moon Friday morning at 5,600 mph. The Earth’s satellite will have two new craters. Conspiracy theorists are not happy about the “bombing” of the moon. They say it’s probably a military test. Naturally there’s a “Do Not Bomb the Moon” Web site. There is no bomb, actually. But that’s beside the point: The important thing is that this is a star turn for the moon. The moon has been rather boring in recent years even by the standards of lifeless wastelands. No astronauts have visited. There’s never any weather. There are no volcanoes. Our moon lacks the kind of typhoons that drop methane rain on Saturn’s Titan. No one has ever accused the moon of harboring a subsurface ocean like some of Jupiter’s moons. Carl Sagan neve
