NASA Successfully Launches LCROSS Lunar Impactor

NASA successfully launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, Thursday on a mission to search for water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's south pole. The satellite lifted off on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 4:32 p.m. CDT, with a companion mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO.LRO safely separated from