After a three month 21-day cruise through space to boil off excess propellant and fine tune a final approach to the moon, NASA’s LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission concluded Friday morning, as the companion Atlas V Centaur upper stage and the LCROSS satellite slammed into the Cabeus crater in the moon’s southern polar region at 7:31:30 A.M and ~7:35:30 A.M EDT, respectively.
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