NASA's Moon Mission

On Thursday, NASA will launch the LCROSS mission at Cape Canaveral in Florida, which will search for water ice on the moon. We’ll talk to one of the scientists behind the mission, which is being managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

• More: Animation: Why does NASA want to crash a rocket on the moon? – from KQED’s QUEST.
• More: NASA Ames Rocket to the Moon – watch a segment from QUEST TV on the LCROSS project.
• More: The California Report: NASA’s Crash Landing – listen to a radio story about the LCROSS mission.