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KSC-2009-1751
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, arrives from Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., at Astrotech near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in preparation for a spring launch. The satellite's primary mission is to search for water ice on the moon in a permanently shadowed crater near one of the lunar poles. LCROSS is a low-cost, accelerated-development, companion mission to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-2009-1751. NASA/KSC, 2009-02-19. Public domain. ID: KSC-2009-1751.
