Like a bullet hitting sand, the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite ... The rocket is scheduled to launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in late April.

A passionate advocate for lunar exploration long before it became a NASA priority, Spudis recently had a crater near the lunar south pole named in his honor. Another well-known planetary scientist ...

Unfortunately, scientists understood so little about the space outside the Earth, other planets, or even flying heavier-than-air airplanes that clouds were out of reach, let alone the moon.