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Article: NASA having a big blast with moon today
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2009
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WASHINGTON -- For as long as man has looked up, the moon has
inspired romance, poetry and songs. Man also likes blowing things
up. Now we get to do both -- in the name of science.
The aim of Friday's deliberate crash of two unmanned NASA
spacecraft into the moon is to see if they can kick up some ice. It
is the 20th lunar crash, most of them done on purpose, since the
Russians first did it 50 years ago last month.
And that doesn't count the eight times we tried and somehow
missed the moon or couldn't get off the ground.
For more than a century, the idea of Earthlings taking a swipe at
the moon has permeated popular culture. The most enduring image is
from the 1902 classic movie, "A Trip to ...