NASA's Moon-Orbiting Robot Crashes Down

Friday, April 18, 2014 - 09:30 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's robotic moon explorer, LADEE, is no more.Flight controllers confirmed Friday that the orbiting spacecraft crashed into the back side of the moon as planned, just three days after surviving a full lunar eclipse, something it was never designed to do.

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