NASA Releases Moon Bombing Animation Video

If you ever watched the old series "Space: 1999," this is somewhat reminiscent of that corny science fiction show. NASA has planned for some time to slam two spacecraft into the moon in an attempt the find water, and they have released animation of what the "NASA moon bombing," scheduled for Friday, will look like.

The LCROSS lunar impacts will be broadcast live on NASA TV starting at 6:15 AM EDT / 3:15 AM PDT, Oct. 9, on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/ntv. The 1 and 1/2 hour show will have live footage from spacecraft cameras, as well as real-time telemetry based animation, so viewers will be able to see the live video, in addition to the preview via the NASA Moon Bombing animation.

The NASA Moon Bombing idea has created quite a stir on the Web. Many are calling it a violation of "space law." Others are saying the true intent of the program is to bomb extraterrestrials that we secretly know exist on the moon.

There are those who are also concerned that the impact caused by the so-called NASA moon bombing will be such that the moon will be moved further away from the earth, causing cataclysmic results on the Earth. This is the sort of scenario posited in the aforementioned "Space: 1999" series, when a series of nuclear blasts on the moon pushed the moon out of orbit, to wander aimlessly.

Unfortunately, we were never shown what happened to the Earth. If such an event did happen, however, there would indeed be catastrophic results. So what are the chances that the NASA moon bombing would create a disaster?

The chances of such a disaster are very slim to none. In fact, it's probably the term "NASA moon bombing" that is causing much of the ruckus. NASA says the impact will be no greater than impacts that the moon receives all the time, from space debris.

Either way, the inhabitants of the Earth will find out tomorrow morning, if either extraterrestrials get really upset about NASA's moon bombing and shoot lasers or phasers at us, or if the moon is pushed out of orbit. Neither of those two scenarios are likely, but we will find out soon enough.