NASA spacecraft crash into Moon....LIVE!

Richard Dower

Starts at 10pm and the crash is expected at 10.58, can be seen on live stram from NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Watch-NASA-s-Ebb-and-Flow-Crash-into-the-Moon-Live-315461.shtml

tigger123

... ??? ... what?!

squod

Can't believe a word those people say. Betcha this crash cost billions. Someone in NASA has large pockets me thinks.......


Invisible chairs, noice.

longhalloween

Bye bye ISS!

TeddyTedson

If you look out the window now, you can actually see it there!

Chuck Stone

Typical 'murica. If they're not trying to blow it up they're crashing things into it.

Shure they sent a nukeular SUV out to Mars to do doughnuts in the Martian desert.

Where To

TeddyTedson wrote: »

If you look out the window now, you can actually see it there!

I'm not falling for that one again Teddy you dirty flasher.:(

Biggins

Are they still looking for that killer Transformer?

Good lord!

SEPT 23 1989

You maniacs! you blew it up

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Worst insurance claim ever!

Jelly 292

OMG, those 12/12 ers were right, its the beginning of the end!!!!

Biggins

Its all a cover-up.

They are still looking for this lot!

Herr Merkel is not amused!

Senna

Its going to crash?? I knew Wolowitz would make a balls of it.

TeddyTedson

The is the most expensive man made object and Nasa are bragging about an insurance con job. These are some of the most intellegent people on the planet apparently. Jesus Weeps. Did we learn nothing from Fr. Stone?

yeahimhere

whaa?! I caught this just in time and caught the impact. Now I wasn't expecting an explosion or anything....but just....something? Not really sure what I'm looking at

goose2005

The two probes have outlived their utility and with fuel running out they would crash by themselves eventually.

Which is why NASA is using this opportunity to learn and carry out one last experiment, by firing up the engines and running them for as long as they work, to figure out how much fuel the probes had left.

This will provide valuable data on fuel consumption, great in simulations and estimates for future crafts.

Deliberate crash landings are common in space travel.

Biggins

Senna wrote: »

Its going to crash?? I knew Wolowitz would make a balls of it.

Bazzinga!

NegativeCreep

Has it happened yet? :L

OneArt

goose2005 wrote: »

Deliberate crash landings are common in space travel.

Well, there goes my trip to Arrakis. :mad:

admiralofthefleet

nothing on nasa tv yet. when is it meant to happen?

zero19

That was ****e

yeahimhere

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

nothing on nasa tv yet. when is it meant to happen?

Already happened as far as I can tell? I tuned in just before 10.30 and just caught it crashing. Suppose it was hard to give an actual time as per an earlier post that they were testing the amount of fuel left.

Shots of the room, and jumped to a few screens on impact. Obviously my eyes aren't trained in what to look for, but saw nothing. Just the reaction of the room.

Edit: Thanks for providing the link, I'm loving this channel! Were some great shots of the moon, then a few messages from astronauts, now stuff about Dec 21st! Saved to favourites and will now be my go to hangover site!

lintdrummer

shoddy journalist wrote:

The stream starts at 5:00 pm EST (22:00 GMT) and the crash itself will occur at 5:28 pm EST (22:58 GMT) later today

Someone doesnt work at nasa anyway.

shedweller

http://www.space.com/18939-nasa-grail-probes-moon-crash.html

The washer-and-dryer-size Grail spacecraft slammed into a crater rim near the moon's north pole at 5:28 p.m. EST (2228 GMT) Monday. The pair was crashed intentionally because their low orbit and remaining fuel levels precluded further scientific operations.

The impacts, which were directed by earlier rocket burns, were designed to keep the two probes from colliding with historic sites on the surface of the moon.

Boombastic

Would have been more impressive if they landed it properly, I hope they're going to go up and clean up all their space junk.

shedweller

Boombastic wrote: »

Would have been more impressive if they landed it properly, I hope they're going to go up and clean up all their space junk.

They were out of fuel and not designed for landing. They also hit the surface with an estimated speed of 6000 mph. Apparently the surface of the moon where they impacted was in shadow so i don't think we'll see anything from the probes themselves. Nasa have said that LRO will be passing overhead at some point soon so they will image the site.