cotton bowl

DALLAS — Cotton Bowl Stadium has found a replacement for the namesake game that is moving to the new Cowboys Stadium.

The Dallas Football Classic at the 77-year-old Fair Park venue will debut on New Year's Day after the 2010 season with teams from the Big Ten and Conference USA.

The Cotton Bowl is moving this season to the Cowboys' $1.15 billion stadium in suburban Arlington. The Cotton Bowl on Tuesday extended its deal with the Big 12 through 2014 and plans to the same with the SEC.

The Big Ten will end a 14-year relationship with the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio after this season. Instead, the Big Ten will send teams to Dallas and the Texas Bowl in Houston, where a Big 12 team will be the opponent.

red river rivalry

First came the flyovers. Then the Big 12 tiebreaker that helped Oklahoma win the league title. A few months later in Austin there was — briefly — an asterisk.

The annual Texas-Oklahoma rivalry at the Cotton Bowl is always a grudge match. Saturday's game between the No. 3 Longhorns and No. 20 Sooners also carries national title implications and promises to be extra spicy after what happened last season.

Forgot? Here's a rundown.

Texas beat Oklahoma to vault to No. 1. A few weeks later, the Sooners, Longhorns and Texas Tech were in a three-way tie in the Big 12 South. The border battle then became the banner war.

A plane circled the stadium at Oklahoma's regular-season finale with a banner: "Texas 45 OU 35 — Settled on a Neutral Field." A few days later, a flying message over Austin teased Texas with "Hey Mack, quit whining. U knew the rules."

The Big 12 tiebreaker went to Oklahoma. The Sooners went to the BCS title game in Florida and Texas got bumped to the Fiesta Bowl.

Still seething months later, the Texas staff claimed the 2008 Big 12 title on the champions wall in the team complex, putting an asterisk next to the year before coach Mack Brown ordered it taken down.

So now Texas tries to tries to get revenge against a team it beat last season.

"I'm sure they're a little bitter," Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford said. "We're a little bitter that they beat us last year. I'm sure both sides are going to be pretty amped up come Saturday."

The Longhorns (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) insist they've put the past in the past and that Saturday is about trying to win league and national titles in 2009, not replaying 2008.

"OU had nothing to do with keeping us out," Brown said. "We lost at Tech. It was on us. We should have been mad at ourselves for letting it get out of the control of our own destiny."

The Longhorns opened this season at No. 2 eyeing three goals: the Big 12 and national titles and a Heisman Trophy for quarterback Colt McCoy. The first two are still in reach if they keep winning. McCoy's trophy campaign needs a boost.

McCoy, runner-up to Bradford for the Heisman last season, has 1,410 yards passing with 10 touchdowns but also has six interceptions. Some early missteps led to slow starts and the Longhorns managed just two offensive touchdowns in the first half of three games this season.

McCoy has played some of his best games against the Sooners the last three years and knows another big game could vault into the favorite's role again.

"These four games I've played in have been some of the most fun. They're the ones that you remember because of the tradition, the rivalry and what it means to your conference and your season," McCoy said.

Oklahoma (3-2, 1-0) and Bradford were in the mix for the same goals when the season started. Then Bradford hurt his throwing shoulder in the first game and missed the next three.

Bradford returned last week in a win over Baylor and looked good. The losses may have ended their national title hopes, but with Bradford back, the Sooners are very much in the hunt for a seventh Big 12 title in 10 years.

"How can he not make a difference? Last year he was the best player in college football," Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. "In the end, we're not talking about just any old guy. He's been pretty special over and over."

For McCoy and Bradford, it will be the last time the friends face each other on the field in college. McCoy is a senior and Bradford, a junior, will likely leave for the NFL after this season.

Brown said he's glad Bradford made it back in time to play Texas.

"I thought it would be great for college football if it was Sam and Colt again," Brown said.

Saturday will be the 104th meeting between the schools in a rivalry that dates to 1900. Since 1912, they have met in Dallas, about halfway between each campus.

The Cotton Bowl sits amid the rides, food and livestock shows at the State Fair of Texas, giving the game a carnival atmosphere unrivaled in college football.

The game kicks off at 11 a.m. local time but fans still come early to taunt each other while chewing on turkey legs, corny dogs and trying to stomach the latest fried concoction. This year, it's fried butter, a scoop of pure butter frozen and covered with dough.

"It was crazy," said Texas safety Earl Thomas, who was a freshman last season and got his first taste of the rivalry.

"You would think it's like 5 p.m., but it's 11 in the morning," Thomas said. "Everybody's out there being rowdy."

illegal alien halloween costume

How does an illegal alien Halloween costume get on a website "by mistake"? It is a question one might put to Target,

According to NBC Los Angeles, Target spokesperson Joshua Thomas stated that the offending Illegal Alien Halloween costume was being removed after Target had received several complaints regarding it. Of course, it probably did not help that a civil rights group, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, also asked Target to remove the Illegal Alien Halloween costume from the website.

The Illegal Alien Adult Costume pictured on the website offers the description: "He didn't just cross a border, he crossed a galaxy! He's got his green card, but it's from another planet! Sure to get some laughs, the Illegal Alien Adult Costume includes an orange prison-style jumpsuit with 'Illegal Alien' printed on the front, an alien mask and a 'green card.'"

Thomas also told the Associated Press that the offending costume was never intended to be sold by Target but was placed among the Halloween costumes offered online by mistake.

The Illegal Alien costume did not get a laugh out of Angelica Salas, Director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, who asked Target to remove the Halloween costume. She said that it was "distasteful, mean-spirited and ignorant of social stigmas and current debate on immigration reform.

state college area school district

School districts in the rural Itasca County area already know how to cope with difficult times. Schools here have faced declining enrollment, and thus declining revenues from the state, for more than a decade.

While watching student enrollment numbers edge downward each fall has presented its challenges, it also offered opportunity to work together in ways that 20 years ago would have seemed unfathomable.

Rural school districts in this area, including Grand Rapids, Greenway, Nashwauk-Keewatin, Deer River, Remer, Floodwood and Hill City, began working together collectively in 1987 as the Quad County Telecommunications Project. Then the focus was simple: making interactive television studios a reality for rural education.

In 2005, the school districts, joined by Itasca Community College, reorganized as the Itasca Area Schools Collaborative (IASC). The group re-launched with a greatly expanded mission dealing with: declining enrollments, strained budgets, high poverty, stagnant or declining state aid funding, the need to maximize resources, the declining ability to provide recovery, remedial or elective classes, and the need for data-driven decisions. In short, IASC’s redefined focus dealt with many of the same issues that face rural communities as a whole.

Grand Rapids School District Superintendent Joe Silko, a 2004 alumnus of the Blandin Educational Leadership Program, said one of the main benefits of membership is that districts can choose whether to participate in any given initiative. “It’s a menu-driven approach,” he said.

The umbrella IASC is a pick-and-choose model for member educational institutions, but there is plenty on the menu. Some of the collaborations include: Project Lead the Way, a pre-engineering curriculum offered at the high school level, a shared fiber network, cost savings through combined staff development and textbook purchasing and combining resources to greatly expand community education offerings. IASC also fed into northeastern Minnesota’s Applied Learning Institute, a workforce development collaboration of 16 school districts and five community colleges.

Rochelle Van Den Heuvel, a 2008 BCLP alum and former Greenway superintendent, said the greatest benefit of the collaboration has been to students. “I believe the value to Greenway is significant both in financial savings as well as being able to provide increased opportunities for students in the district,” she said. “As a district moving to get out of statutory operating debt, we were reducing core and elective courses as well as staff development options. Through IASC partnerships and programs, we were able to continue, or bring back, some of those opportunities.”

“The relationships that have been established through IASC have enabled changes to happen more quickly,” added Mike Johnson, a 2004 BCLP alumnus, ICC Provost and Blandin Foundation trustee. “The social capital that has developed has allowed a crisis to create opportunities. Reality is upon us and we have the trust and willingness to make bold moves to enhance educational opportunities for students.”

The collaborative approach has not only been successful but it also is beginning to expand. An IASC online learning collaborative, VITAL, merged with a Brainerd-based online learning group last year to become Infinity Online Learning. The new online learning group is comprised of 35 member school districts.

Through Infinity, about 900 students from IASC member districts were able to take courses from about 50 offerings during the 2008-2009 school year. There was a much wider spectrum of offerings available through Infinity than ever would have been possible for any small school district operating on its own.

“Through Infinity, we can offer everything from intermediate to advanced coursework in a number of areas,” said Joe.

“We have a responsibility to improve the quality of education for all students in the region, not just the pupils in our individual districts,” said Joe.

boss day

It's National Boss Day today, which means you should probably be doing something nice for your boss (which might include not browsing the web while you're at work, but that's not our call). However, if you're a frequent player of MMOs -- or video games in general, at that -- you have a very different definition of boss. And after years of playing MMOs -- or even for a few months -- there are certain bosses who hold a soft spot in your heart for whatever reason.

Perhaps they were a truly challenging fight the first time you faced them, maybe they just looked impressive and they stuck in your mind, or it could even be something as simple as getting exactly wanted from them the first time you went through the encounter. In honor of National Boss Day, we're asking you what boss holds the nearest and dearest spot in your memories. If you were sending a missive to one of your personal favorite bosses, who would it be? What would you say? Would you thank them for being generous in their drops when you fought them, or would you offer consolation at how easy they are to kill these days? And if you want to get creative and phrase it like a greeting card, on this day, it's certainly appropriate. Just take a moment to give thanks to the bosses... before you go back to killing them for loot, anyway.

phillies dodgers score

FINAL - Final score for game one of the Phillies vs. Dodgers - Phillies win 8-6. The Phillies Dodgers win came after Phillies’ Carlos Ruiz and Raul Ibanez hit three run homers. Dodgers Joe Torre said of Thursday night’s game - “It’s like a prize fight, we just came up a little short”.

Manny Ramirez homered. But that wasn’t enough for Los Angeles before the 56,000 full capacity crowd at Dodger Stadium last night.

In the 2nd, Loney gave the Dodgers an early lead with a homer to right. Ruiz delivered a 3 run homer in the 5th to put the Phillies up 3-1. A double to right for Howard in the 5th put the Phillies up 5-1. Ramirez’ homer in the 5th and a Ethier’s grounder brought Los Angeles closer trailing 5-4 in the 5th.

But Ibanez’s three run homer in the 8th expanded the lead again 8-4 for the Phillies in the 8th. Two more scores by the Dodgers in the 8th was the end of scoring - narrowing it to only 8-6.

farmville crop whisperer

It seems that everyone is playing Farmville and I am the only one left not playing it. I have a farm in Farmville but I don't have time to till my virtual farm, it is my four-year-old son who cares for my virtual farm. My son knows a lot about farmville and now he told me about this new feature called Farmville Crop Whisperer. What is it? To be honest, I really don't know, but based on what I have gathered from my son, this new feature allows players to randomly select users gift, and recognize 5 bags of fertilizer each day. What is its implication on the game? Again, I really do not know, I'll ask my little boy about it.

florida vs lsu

This is our opportunity to see what the defending champion Gators are made of. Nobody's come close to testing them this season as they started off playing a couple of cupcakes and taking care of business against two lightweights in the SEC. It's almost unanimous in both polls that Florida is the No. 1 team in the land.

In the meantime, LSU's played in a couple of barnburners against other SEC competition. The Tigers needed a goal-line stand late to hold of Mississippi State and a late touchdown to down the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens. They've been hearing all week how they might not be as good as their ranking shows.

So what might be the key to this game? No surprise here, but it's Tim Tebow.

What's surprising is why he might be the key.

Tebow suffered a concussion last week against Kentucky after hitting the back of his head on the knee of one of his linemen, knocking him unconscious. All week, we've been listening to "will he or won't he" and head coach Urban Meyer has stated that he'll wait until Saturday to decide if Tebow can go.

Well, Saturday's here and his status is still up in the air. The team said he'll play if he passes pregame medical tests. If Tebow can't go, Florida will trot out sophomore John Brantley, a kid who's played some mop-up duty in his first two years in the program and has seen some success.

But this is different. This is Baton Rouge, at night. It's the biggest game of the season for an LSU team that's sick and tired of feeling disrespected. This is not the time to be missing your experienced, Heisman-winning, senior quarterback if you're the Gators.

If Tebow can play, expect Florida to play composed, run their offense nearly flawlessly, and come out with a win.

If Tebow can't play, things might get interesting once the new polls are released tomorrow.

florida vs lsu

This is our opportunity to see what the defending champion Gators are made of. Nobody's come close to testing them this season as they started off playing a couple of cupcakes and taking care of business against two lightweights in the SEC. It's almost unanimous in both polls that Florida is the No. 1 team in the land.

In the meantime, LSU's played in a couple of barnburners against other SEC competition. The Tigers needed a goal-line stand late to hold of Mississippi State and a late touchdown to down the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens. They've been hearing all week how they might not be as good as their ranking shows.

So what might be the key to this game? No surprise here, but it's Tim Tebow.

What's surprising is why he might be the key.

Tebow suffered a concussion last week against Kentucky after hitting the back of his head on the knee of one of his linemen, knocking him unconscious. All week, we've been listening to "will he or won't he" and head coach Urban Meyer has stated that he'll wait until Saturday to decide if Tebow can go.

Well, Saturday's here and his status is still up in the air. The team said he'll play if he passes pregame medical tests. If Tebow can't go, Florida will trot out sophomore John Brantley, a kid who's played some mop-up duty in his first two years in the program and has seen some success.

But this is different. This is Baton Rouge, at night. It's the biggest game of the season for an LSU team that's sick and tired of feeling disrespected. This is not the time to be missing your experienced, Heisman-winning, senior quarterback if you're the Gators.

If Tebow can play, expect Florida to play composed, run their offense nearly flawlessly, and come out with a win.

If Tebow can't play, things might get interesting once the new polls are released tomorrow.

joey luft

Lollipop Guild member Jerry Maren, Judy Garland’s son Joey Luft

Judy Garland’s son Joey Luft, Garland’s grandchildren Jesse and Vanessa Richards, Lollipop Guild member Jerry Maren, and Emerald City manicurist Dorothy Barrett were present at the "Hollywood’s Greatest Year" screening of The Wizard of Oz presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday, August 3, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.

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Joey Luft

Academy director of special projects Randy Haberkamp, Jerry Maren

Dorothy Barrett, an Emerald City manicurist in The Wizard of Oz

Jesse Richards, Vanessa Richards, Judy Garland’s grandchildren

julia e. laack

Sheboygan: In a dramatic incident, Julia E Laack stripped before the police to avoid arrest.

According to the sources, the 36-year-old Laack was charged with stealing beef jerky and a lighter from a Sheboygan gas station.

When police tried to arrest her, drunken Laack stripped infront of her children and hit a police official.

A police official said that following the complaint a police party went to her residence but she begun screaming on her children. When police entered her house she stripped in the undergarments.

"You can't arrest me as I am going to be naked now." Later this, Laack attacked a police official and punched at his groin.
After some scuffle police successfully controlled her. Meanwhile, she has been charged in two counts one for theft and second for misbehaving with police official.

She may face sentence upto five-year in jail under these charges.

lorna luft

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Lorna Luft, the late Judy Garland's daughter, just gave away a fun tidbit that her mother shared with her about filiming the classic movie The Wizard of Oz. Toto had killer breath. She said that the little dog had such offensive breath that if Judy had to pick the dog up, her eyes would water from the stench!

Lorna Luft's mother Judy Garland played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz 70 years ago. (Getty Images)
Luft, who is a singer and actress, also revealed her mom had a hard time being scared of the Wicked Witch because the two actresses were friends in real life. Luft told CBS News her mother told her, "Margaret Hamilton was such a lovely woman and she was so nice and so sweet."

The classic movie about Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tinman and Cowardly Lion celebrates its 70th anniversary this year.

cdot colorado

Colorado Department Of Transportation..Cdot Colorado:The state’s top transportation official gave his managers bonuses despite state rules that prohibit performance payments to the highly paid officials, a CALL7 investigation found.

In 2008, Colorado Department of Transportation Executive Director Russ George gave bonuses of about $2,500 each to more than a dozen managers who are under senior executive service contracts. Those contracts prohibit payments above the compensation stated in the contract.

“Was it wrong? Yes. Has it been corrected? Yes,” said state Department of Personnel and Administration Executive Director Rich Gonzales, whose office notified CDOT that the payments were improper. “I think he thought he was doing the right thing by awarding those extra dollars.”

DPA caught the error after CALL7 investigators and other media asked for information about bonuses paid to state employees.

George conceded that he made a mistake and should have know about rules prohibiting the bonus payments.

“The staff didn’t do anything wrong as far as they knew … the mistake was mine,”George said. “I didn’t know that rule, or if I ever knew I didn’t remember it. And I should have known it. And I shouldn’t have paid the bonuses.”

George said he was just trying to give top managers, who each make more than $120,000 a year, the same percentage bonuses as he gave the rest of the staff who had outstanding performances reviews.

“I work with them every day and I see the outstanding performance.” George said.

But sources inside CDOT said the bonuses angered the rank and file employees because they believed George was trying to slip the bonuses under the radar.

“I think it would be a very sensitive issue when this came out and was exposed that this had been done,” Gonzales said.

“There are employees of CDOT (who) believe senior executive staff that got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Is that fair?” asked CALL7 Investigator Tony Kovaleski.

“No,” George said. “The truth is how we did it. We were trying to match the same salary increases that the rest of the employees were getting. That’s all there is to it.

eddie robinson

On this day in 1985, Grambling football coach Eddie Robinson won his 324th game to pass Bear Bryant as the winningest college coach in history.

Robinson, who coached for 57 years, ended up with 408 wins and sent 200 players to the NFL.

“Nobody has ever done or will ever do what Eddie Robinson has done for this game,” Penn State coach Joe Paterno said. “Our profession will never, ever be able to repay Eddie Robinson for what he has done for this country and the profession of football.”

We agree and thanks to RayHigginsTV we can offer this video tribute (music by Stevie Wonder) to the legendary coach who died in 2007.

colorado road conditions

Four years ago, Texas handed Colorado a crushing 70-3 defeat in the Big 12 championship game that had to feel like the absolute bottom for Buffaloes fans.

The Longhorns went on to win the 2005 national championship. Back up in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado coach Gary Barnett was forced out, fiery Dan Hawkins was hired to replace him and good times were supposed to follow.

They’re still waiting.

Struggling Colorado (1-3) is headed back to Texas on Saturday night to face a No. 2 Longhorns (4-0) team again in the hunt for the national title, not to mention the Big 12.

“Winning the Big 12 is one of the premiums on the list,” said the eternally optimistic Hawkins. “It starts now.”

Hawkins, who was 53-11 in five seasons at Boise State, is 14-27 with three losing seasons at Colorado. He tried to inject some life into the program when he said the goal for 2009 was “10 wins, and no excuses,” but that is already out of reach after just four games.

The Longhorns have won at least 10 games eight seasons in a row, several of them including blowout wins over the Buffaloes. Texas has outscored Colorado 181-41 in the last four meetings and the Longhorns are 32½-point favorites to make it a rout again.

And that’s exactly why coach Mack Brown has issued a warning to his team to avoid looking ahead to next week’s showdown with Oklahoma in Dallas.

“They’re desperate,” Brown said of Colorado. “When you come in against a team desperate for a win, you have to expect anything.”

Texas has cruised through the early part of its schedule, briefly stepping into Big 12 play for a 34-24 win over Texas Tech on Sept. 19. Then came a 64-7 whipping of Texas-El Paso before an open date to rest up for the big push over the next eight weeks.

After Colorado, four of Texas’ next seven opponents are ranked in the Top 25.

“We’re going to start the toughest stretch of the year,” Texas quarterback Colt McCoy said. The Longhorns’ defense, anchored by a better-than-expected defensive line, seems to be improving every week. Texas forced five turnovers, including four interceptions, against UTEP.

Colorado quarterback Cody Hawkins, the coach’s son, has thrown seven picks this season as the Buffaloes have scrambled to play catchup in their three losses.

The Texas offense looks to be getting rolling at the right time. After struggling early in their first three games, McCoy and the Longhorns have seemed to find their groove in the second half against Texas Tech and the blowout of UTEP.

McCoy has not been quite as sharp as he was last season when his 77 percent completion rate set an NCAA record. He is completing 71 percent so far, but has been better over the last two games.

In the second half against Texas Tech and the game against UTEP, McCoy was 43-of-53 passing (81 percent) with five touchdowns. Those are the kinds of numbers Heisman Trophy voters will be looking for.

They’ll also be looking for wins.

A slip-up against Colorado would cost McCoy and the Longhorns dearly in the chases for the Heisman and national championship.

Texas players say they won’t take anything for granted against the Buffaloes.

“You can’t do that,” said defensive end Sam Acho, “or it will bite you in the butt

obama nobel peace prize for what

Applauding Barack Obama for his efforts for a nuclear-arms free world and resolving global conflicts through wisdom, Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has said the US President's key role in these areas have been rightly recognised through the Nobel peace prize.

In a letter to Obama, the exiled Tibetan leader, currently on a week-long visit here, congratulated the American leader on winning the Nobel peace prize for the year 2009.

He said he was pleased that the Nobel Committee had recognised Obama's "approach towards resolving international conflicts through the wisdom and power of dialogue."

"The Committee has rightly noted your efforts towards a world without nuclear weapons and your constructive role in environmental protection," the Dalai, himself a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 1989, said in the letter.

slooh

Slooh, a service that offers unfettered access to two huge earth-based telescopes, is inviting folks to watch the LCROSS impact on Friday at 4:30am PDT or 7:30am EDT. The feed begins at 3:30am PDT.

The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite will hit the moon to created a crater 14 meters in diameter and 2 meters deep. The resulting analysis will help assess how large bodies will damage planets along with an assessment of current water levels in the moon. Plus it involves blowing holes in the moon.

The feeds are available here and they will be transmitting from New Hampshire and Arizona simultaneously. NASA is also transmitting the impact live.

Slooh is a cool web-based service that lets “borrow” time on high powered telescopes. I’ve had bad luck with it – I’ve never been able to see much because of cloud cover – but if the weather is right and you’re fascinated by astronomy it’s a fun service.

The service costs $5.95 a month (the LCROSS impact is free) or $49.95 a year. It includes live picture-taking and group missions led by a professional astronomer. You can also share your pictures at MySlooh. There is also a kids’ version including tours of the moon, the universe, and the outer stars.

moon impact

NASA's LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite) mission is coming to a glorious end. The mission launched on June 18, 2009 is just minutes away from making dual-impact on the face of the moon. The first impact sees the Centaur craft hitting the surface at a speed of about 1 mile per second ejecting about 350 tons of debris from a crater about 20-30-meters in diameter and 2- to 4-meters deep. A second Shepherding spacecraft will pass through the debris plume 4 minutes later, collecting and relying data back to Earth in real-time before meeting its end. With any luck, we'll know shortly if the moon contains the water-ice theorized by scientists.

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Nasa TV

Interested by the NASA's crash landing on the moon, I wanted to watch the event live on my Linux machine. NASA has a few live TV channels, but none seemed to work on Linux. Until I discovered that they use ASX files to view the channels in Windows Media Player - turns out Silverlight (and by consequence Moonlight) also support ASX files. It was just a matter of creating a simple silverlight application referencing the ASX links. And that's what I did!

The bad thing is that our ASX support was a bit broken [1], and I had to fix it. This means that the currently released beta is not able to view the streams, you need to download brand new xpis from here: x86 / x64 (fair warning: these xpis are not tested at all, download at your own risk). Download, restart firefox and you should be able to watch the event live here.

lcross

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:11:22 PM EDT

At 6:50 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8 the LCROSS shepherding spacecraft successfully separated from the Centaur that is has been attached to since early June 2009, when the LCROSS and LRO were stacked at Space Launch Complex 41, a few days before launch from Cape Canaveral. After the separation sequence was initiated, sensors attached to three break wires indicated a successful separation.

After the separation, the LCROSS shepherding spacecraft completed a 180 degree flip maneuver and powered up the science payload to watch the Centaur steadily increase the distance between them. Mission operations then commanded the spacecraft to perform a breaking burn to create a separation distance of 600 km from the Centaur, This was determined by the science team as the optimal distance to view the Centaur on the surface of the moon.

The Centaur will impact the floor of Cabeus crater at 4:31:19 a.m. PDT. Following about 4 minutes behind and collecting and transmitting data back to LCROSS mission control, the Shepherding spacecraft will impact the surface at approximately 4:35:45 a.m. PDT.

nasa moon bombing live

NASA moon bombing moon crash moon impact NASA moon bombing live. NASA’s moon bombing operation has been put in motion. This is the first time that any space agency is going to strike moon with such a speed that will take the probe four to five feet beneath the moon surface.

The world’s leading space agency is trying to ascertain about the water on the moon following its probe showing that water was there on the moon.

Very recently NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research successfully launched a small rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprised of aluminum powder and water ice, called ALICE.

"This collaboration has been an opportunity for graduate students to work on an environmentally-friendly propellant that can be used for flight on Earth and used in long distance space missions," said NASA Chief Engineer Mike Ryschkewitsch at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "These sorts of university-led experimental projects encourage a new generation of aerospace engineers to think outside of the box and look at new ways for NASA to meet our exploration goals."

Using ALICE as fuel, a nine-foot rocket soared to a height of 1,300 feet over Purdue University's Scholer farms in Indiana earlier this month. ALICE is generating excitement among researchers because this energetic propellant has the potential to replace some liquid or solid propellants. When it is optimized, it could have a higher performance than conventional propellants.

"By funding this collaborative research with NASA, Purdue University and the Pennsylvania State University, AFOSR continues to promote basic research breakthroughs for the future of the Air Force," said Dr. Brendan Godfrey, director of AFOSR.

ALICE has the consistency of toothpaste when made. It can be fit into molds and then cooled to -30 C 24 hours before flight. The propellant has a high burn rate and achieved a maximum thrust of 650 pounds during this test.