COLUMBIA — At 6:31 a.m., a piece of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite slammed into the bottom of a crater on the moon’s surface, and Val Germann, president of the Central Missouri Astronomical Association, wasn’t going to miss it.
Space observer takes stock of morning moon crashes
Friday, October 9, 2009 | 5:05 p.m. CDT;
updated 10:05 p.m. CDT, Friday, October 9, 2009
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