NASA sending piggyback impactors with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA plans to blast the permanently dark floor of the moon's Shackleton Crater with two heavy impactors early in 2009 to test the theory that ancient water ice lies buried there. The impactors - a 2,000-kilogram (4,409-pound) spent upper stage and a 534-kilogram (1,177-pound) Shepherding Spacecraft...
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