NASA Blog: LCROSS First Shot

This morning when I woke up, I told myself, well another two days of preparation, and we'll have our shot on Friday. I woke to the news of the continuing problems with the STS-127 hydrogen leak, and all indications from KSC were that we'd have to slip to June 19 given the late hour of the discovery. Then, I started reading e-mail - a firestorm of activity! "We're GO for June 18!" Whoa! The day