In June of 2009, NASA launched a spacecraft to the moon that was unmanned. The spacecrafts are supposed to reveal if there is ice or water underneath the surface of the moon. It would be revealed by the twin impacts of the Lunar Crater Observation and its Sensing Satellite. To collect this information, the crafts are supposed to crash into the moon at a speed of 6,000 mph. Nasa expects "plumes of moon dust — perhaps full of ice — (to soar) 6.2 miles high above the moon's Cabeus crater." ("NASA Attacks the Moon"). The Lunar Crater Observation’s Sensing Satellite, also known as LCROSS, cost about seventy-nine million dollars and NASA is destroying it. Many people are concerned that NASA is bombing the moon but NASA has taken the time to
