NASA Prepares Spacecrafts For Ramming Mission

[mdvaldosta]

Scientists from NASA are preparing this week for a more difficult and unconventional mission. They will be slamming two of their spacecrafts into the moon’s South Pole in order to find hidden ice water in the lunar double.NASA is confident that the mission will be successful – but also quite difficult. “I think that people [...]

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[Breath]

^ ^ Time for a new avatar. You've had that one forever. It's not funny anymore.

But back to the thread. I saw a report on this earlier today. And my question is...what if I don't want the Moon slammed into by spacecraft? Who does the Moon "belong" to that NASA thinks it's within their right to experiment with the Moon like this? Do scientists around the world collaborate together and decide, "Hey, this would be cool, let's rev up some engine and smash it into the Moon!"?