Lunar Collision

" You may be added money -- NASA apparently has plenty it's getting ready to blow a huge crater in the moon after all. In what could be a low cost I'll explain that more high reward. To find out if there is water up there somewhere on the moon and if there is. NASA may just have found that site for the first permanent moon base. Here's an animation showing the moon the plan -- for the moon tonight the lunar crater observation and sensing satellites or L cross. We'll separate from what's called an empty part of the rocket tomorrow morning part of rockin' wheel slammed into said moon similar to this. It weighs about as much as an SUV and we moving at about 6000 miles an hour that would her. It will send the moon dirt and ice if it exists soaring and consider this NASA reports the project cost only 79 million dollars. It goes on to say that's 13 of the budget for the transformers movie. Of course they get money back from the transformers movie we'll watch it. -- now the author of -- analogy unlocking the secrets of the -- assistant Tom Jones is with us. He is BHD and planetary silence that's science he is an astronaut himself. Who's been -- for space flights and one of my favorite people Tom it's great -- thank you. Hello Shepperd why that we need to know if there's water up there I -- I kind of get it like when we were rich. And everything was cool that but we're not rich and it's not cool and I wonder why we can. If there's water up there."

" I think water is the key to further exploration of the solar system certainly on the moon and out today asteroids and eventually. It's a key to creating industry and and a thriving economy and space and it's very scarce on the moon. There's suspicions that it's at the South Pole of the moon right here on my globe from NASA. And if we can find water on the -- of the moon that could be a self supporting source of rocket fuel oxygen to breathe and eventually. A way to support people out there patent."

" How they come up with this idea did you shoot a hole in the things -- flying if there is -- is this a definitive test."

" Well it's have very good experiment chat about last June they launched a probe to orbit the moon it's called the lunar reconnaissance orbiter it's they're taking pictures of the moon now. But the FDA rocket stage the -- car rather than throw it away NASA decided -- on this kamikaze drive. Dive into the moon and that dirt plume picked up by that explosion that artificial greater that's been targeted. Will -- water they hope is hiding in those lunar craters high enough to be glanced by the lunar reconnaissance orbiter. Or the Hubble telescope or a number of ground based telescopes back on -- so what's -- And -- and experiment with the moon much cheaper than trying to build a pro that would actually land air and look for the water itself."

" You -- you collect that data and then you come back he decide whether we're able to go forward and we can't if there's water up there until there may be. That the thinking is that -- there may be billions of gallons."

" The quantities could be as big as one of the Great Lakes for example and that would be a huge resource for lowering the cost of future space exploration and helping us bootstrap the industry in space it's only about size it's about creating an industrial park in space they can use these resources that are already out there. Rather than holing a -- at great cost from earth and that's the future of space exploration. "

" Very -- Tom Jones astronaut for the program. Could see Tom thank you. Thank -- and still seemed kind of weird though. And we're losing the war in Afghanistan. And in that meant we healthier people have that economy's going to can. Fifty million people are unemployed and spending tens of millions of dollars going to the moon. I mean I used you know it plans to go to move a lot of people work there you -- people. Unemployed but the move really."