NASA's mission to crash a spent rocket stage and a following survey craft into a dark crater at the Moon's south pole is now in its final stages. The empty Centaur upper-stage booster has now successfully separated from the LCROSS probe-craft and the two are plunging down toward the lunar antarctic. Here's a rather groovy vid …

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Friday 9th October 2009 10:01 GMT Winkypop

Does this count...

As another moon landing?

Or is a landing only something you could (theoretically) walk away from?

Yay for NASA.

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Friday 9th October 2009 10:39 GMT Andus McCoatover

Kudos, NASA

Superb video. May you crash and burn (successfully!). I can see the moon at the moment, even tho' it's daylight*. I'll look for a small wobble at 12:31.

*My ex. didn't believe that you can see the moon in daylight. After 45 years, she STILL thought it was just a cloud....

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Friday 9th October 2009 10:39 GMT Anonymous Coward

wtf

Did that title make sense to anyone?

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Friday 9th October 2009 11:43 GMT frank ly

@AC 10:13 re.wtf

"Did that title make sense to anyone?"

Yes. It's highly compressed english, a parody of the style used by tabloid newspapers; used here for humerus effect.

Get with it.

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Friday 9th October 2009 12:02 GMT Mike Tree

That was.......

a bit of an anti-climax

(Paris, 'cos she knows all about climaxes)

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Friday 9th October 2009 12:20 GMT Sordid Details

OMG!!

Has anyone warned the Clangers?

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