<p>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
<p>Venus Express has completed an ‘aerodrag’ campaign that used its solar wings as sails to catch faint wisps of the planet’s atmosphere. The test used the orbiter as an exquisitely
<table width=285 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 align=right> <tr> <td width=6></td> <td align=center> <p class=small>The LCROSS mission operations team initiated power-up of the LCROSS science payload and saw this view of the moon.</p></td> </tr> </table> <p>NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation