We’ve had a few days to digest the bombing of the moon by the NASA LCROSS project. Now it’s time to step back and ask a few pertinent questions of the whole deal. Let’s first recap the event. NASA stated on their LCROSS mission page, that the mission is simply to “search for water on the moon.” This was to be done by impacting a several ton rocket onto the surface of the moon creating (in their words) a “big impact and creating a crater, throwing tons of debris and potentially water ice and vapor above the lunar surface.” A second craft will follow the first in collecting data with the goal of discovering how much water is in the surface.