The two-in-one mission -- called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite, or LRO/LCROSS -- is perched atop an Atlas V rocket at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Florida. Weather permitting, this will be launched on Thursday. NASA are calling the mission the agency's "first step back to the moon." The mission will see the LRO map the moon with high-definition photographs. And the Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite is a $79-million self-sacrificing probe that will crash into a polar crater to see if there is any evidence of water-ice hidden in the moon's shadowy recesses.
The agency considers the project its most exciting moon mission in nearly 40 years. The mission coincides at the start of a major review of NASA's plans to actually return astronauts to the moon by 2020. A White House-appointed committee kicked off its first public hearings in Washington on Wednesday of this week.
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