NASA has announced a new effort to send humans back to the moon, possibly to build an outpost by 2020. Mountain View's NASA Ames Research Center will identifies scientific investigations that could be performed there on everything from geology to global warming. But some critics question the space agency's priorities.
Why do NASA scientists in Mountain View want to crash a rocket on the moon? Watch an animation of the entire mission to find out. Narrated by: Tony Colaprete, Team Leader LCROSS mission.
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