Friday, October 09, 2009

Live updates: NASA spacecraft crashes into moon

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

WASTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

ditto.

Anonymous said...

Crashed with a whimper? Guess we got to wait and see if the data stream can be cleaned up for more details.

The media really hyped this up tho NASA did nothing to temper those expectations.

Still it was cool going in for the nosedive on Tee-Vee. :)

CharlieA said...

The regolith must have been really soft and deep. Only thing to account for nothing visible. Poof.
Let's be patient, people - they DID get some data.

Anonymous said...

Waste of what? The money that was spent on this went right back into the American economy. Meanwhile, we will gain more knowledge of the universe we live in.

Bruce said...

My guess is that there was no dirt, just hard solid rock.

Anonymous said...

It wasn't a waste of money. Because if the data collected shows that water-ice DOES NOT exist in large quantities on the Moon, then NASA must be given a new destination. Mars must be that destination.

Anonymous said...

Stuff like this is interesting, but I 'm not sure it's worth the billions invested. I personally would rather see money invested in something more useful, like inducing climate change on Venus to make it inhabitable, or hauling Titan back to Earth orbit, to be a source of fuel for a few millennium.