NASA/Ames ready to explode one of the coolest space missions ever

June 15, 2009 | Source: Mercury News

NASA plans send a rocket booster into the moon, triggering a six-mile-high explosion that scientists hope will confirm the presence of water frozen in craters near the moon’s south pole.

As a potential source of oxygen for life support and hydrogen for rocket fuel, that water would be a tremendous boost to NASA’s plans to restart human exploration of the moon.