Satnews Daily
November 12th, 2009

NASA's LCROSS Post-Mortem After Crash On Moon


NASA LCROSS The crash landing of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, into a crater near the moon's south pole on October 9 will be addressed in a news conference Friday to talk about early science results from its successful moon impacting.

The briefing from NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, will begin at 9 a.m. PST, on November 13. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's Web site. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, select this direct link.

The panelists are:
  • Doug Cooke, associate administrator, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington
  • Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist for Exploration Systems at NASA Headquarters
  • Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from Ames
  • Greg Delory, senior fellow, Space Sciences Laboratory and Center for Integrative Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley