Description & Facts: EDIT: The found water :D LCROSS (Centaur) impacted successfully today. (Fun bit at 8:00 xD) I think lots of people expected a big explosion or something, there was a - 6 mile high plume of dust and smoke, but thats not visible on the footage.. (poor cam quality because of the systems on board the module) They wanna see if there is water ( in the form of ice) on some shadowy craters on the pole's of the moon. So they fire a spaceship into the moon and collect the dust and see if there is water. :D LCROSS launched with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 18, 2009 at 2:32 pm PDT. The LCROSS shepherding spacecraft and the Atlas Vs Centaur upper stage rocket executed a fly-by of the moon on June 23, 2009 (LCROSS lunar swingby video stream coverage) and entered into an elongated Earth orbit to position LCROSS for impact on a lunar pole. On final approach, the shepherding spacecraft and Centaur will separate.