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Moon Bomb "Shadow" HOAX?

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NASA said Friday's rocket and satellite strike on the moon was a success, kicking up enough dust for scientists to determine whether or not there is water on the moon. "We have the data we need to actually address the questions we set out to address," said Anthony Colaprete, principal investigator for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, mission. It will be awhile before all the data from the satellite can be analyzed to determine if there is water on the moon, according to LCROSS project manager Dan Andrews. Andrews said that "the spacecraft performed beautifully." NASA crashed the rocket and a satellite into the moon's surface on Friday morning in a $79 million mission. NASA televised live images of the LCROSS as it crashed into a crater near the moon's south pole. Minutes before its impact, the satellite guided a rocket into the Cabeus crater in an effort to kick up enough dust to help the LCROSS find whether there is any wa...