NASA TV will broadcast live coverage of the LCROSS impacts with expert commentary 3:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. PDT on Friday, Oct. 9, and also broadcast a post-impact news conference a few hours after impact.
You can get NASA TV here.
So, what happens if they drop the bomb on the moon and it just, like, splits in half? Does earths gravitational field get all screwy? And then we die? Really hope that doesn’t happen.
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[singlepic id=191 w=250 h=187 float=right]Well, not yet, but the major milestone reached by Ad Astra last week puts the goal within sight, at least. Ad Astra successfully fired their 201KW VASMIR plasma rocket in a vacuum last week, which they will implement on the ISS in October, 2013. The 200KW rocket will use a mere fraction of the fuel currently required to keep the ISS in orbit (0.3 tonnes as compared to 7.5 tonnes currently).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvuNUNqW6Sc[/youtube]
Ad Astra’s CEO (and former NASA astronaut), Franklin Diaz, has much loftier goals in mind: one of their VASMIR rockets running at 10-20 megawatts could power a craft to Mars in a mere 39days. Wow.
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