LCROSS Impact on the moon!

Live NASA TV coverage of the LCROSS impact on the lunar surface.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• LRO
• LCROSS
• Moon
• Lunar
• Luna
• Spacevidcast
• NASA

[taramama3]

i just love the black and white cam that are not very hd.

[spacevidcast]

@taramama3 Why spend money on perks that serve no real purpose other than to provide eye candy on what's already given, only to have it destroyed upon impact with little to gain? The moon lacks color. The impactor is destroyed and LRO collects the data to send back here. An on-board HD camera would just show high def shadows(waste of money to see sharpness there). We can get the exact same results from other satellites.

[ebutuoy9000]

Nasa was far superior in the 1960s, they could fly men up to the moon, walk around , take photos, and even drive a lunar vehicle. Now 40 years later its a big deal to crash a craft into the moon ???

[spacevidcast]

@ebutuoy9000 Back then, we had a purpose. We were trying to win a race. People supported NASA. Today, people think NASA is a waste, so there's no congressional support. If that's missing, there's no money to back NASA. "No bucks, no Buck Rogers."

[youvebeenthunderstru]

No, you see, I believe in a little thing called science. Man walked on the moon, 6 times.

[1001AcidDrops]

@tenebroust

Ah yes - the absolutely fabulous Lost Technology of the 1960s. NASA can't duplicate it because they mislaid al the blueprints for everything. They also lost all the recordings of every Apollo transmission (30,000 of them). So they claim.

[1001AcidDrops]

@spacevidcast

In that case why are they looking for water on the surface of the Moon?

[justaskyywatcherful]

nice done!

watch?v=bwsvAw1somA

[DamienVryce1]

@flipbrown1981 (better late than never) My apologies if my spelling ability or grammar are not up to your strict standards. Now, in the future, perhaps you should refrain from assuming someone is a moron because they spelled a word wrong.

[rookieasif]

What the hell is this? How can they fool people again so easily? If people fall for this maybe they'll fall for my ponzi scheme.

[eap8317]

@spacevidcast The real purpose was to demonstrate that capitalism was a better model than communism, it was an economic and political agenda, and now that capitalism has taken over in most of the world, there is no need for NASA anymore...its all about money and not human knowledge...I wish the Chinese or the North Coreans put another man in the moon or in Mars so the race can start again and humanity slowly gets rid off religion and superstition that holds us back...science is the only way ->

[eap8317]

@spacevidcast Your argument would make sense if we were still in the 1960's when this technology was not been developed and it would have cost a lot of money to just be crashed, but I bet you that any chinese camera of today would be enough to produce much better images with a minimal cost....I have a canon 500D camera that captures HD video and it is only $160 more than the one without HD. I think that $160 is peanuts in the whole budget of a "misile" like this one!!!

[thecrags]

How can you be allowed to work for NASA if you have a mullet?

[tenebroust]

Wow what a freaking dud. Apparently 1960's technology was so advanced they can't duplicate it today.

[robertoshea1]

Is the VanRyan belt any factor to returning to the moon?