Per VOA News, NASA is set to impact the moon with a rocket in search of water, hoping to speed up future space exploration.

VOA News reports that the rocket is attached to a satellite that will detach prior to impact and take pictures to see if the spraying lunar dirt contains water.

NASA adds that the ‘LCROSS’ impact will occur Fri. Oct. 09 at 7:31 a.m. EDT with a live broadcast shown on www.nasa.gov/ntv. In addition, LCROSS can be tracked on its own Twitter page.

Twitterers all over the world use the impact to display a mix of reactions and comments.

Some Twitterers were intrigued and amazed:

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   AnnieM11 (Lisboa, Portugal) Awesome!!! RT @AnnCurry Whoa. Nasa will fire a lunar rocket at the moon 7am edt tomorrow to gather data on water. It will be live on tv. 08 Oct 2009 from web
2. 
   billg (Dallas, Texas) Watch NASA bomb the moon online http://bit.ly/FT4dh This could be very cool 08 Oct 2009 from Power Twitter
3. 
   MrSmartAlec (Salt Lake City, Utah) NASA is going to deliberately crash a rocket into the moon tomorrow for a test to see if there is water there. Interesting stuff. 08 Oct 2009 from txt

Others were upset, worried and confused:

1. 
   stkxppro (United States) NASA is going to hit the moon with a rocket? What. Great idea to waste money. 07 Oct 2009 from txt
2. 
   erintdickerson (Minnesota) RT @mashable Watch NASA’s Exploding Moon Rocket Live on NASA TV http://bit.ly/30koIc –> I really hope this doesn’t backfire. 08 Oct 2009 from web
3. 
   mzzzlink (Florida) NASA launched a rocket to the moon that will crash into it tomorrow morning creating a six mile high explosion. On Purpose! I’m livid!!!! 08 Oct 2009 from Echofon
4. 
   skigarmisch (Louisiana) NASA is sending a rocket to “whack the moon?!” Sounds kinda scary 2me! http://bit.ly/PA0kr #sgp #nasa #boom 08 Oct 2009 from Tweetree
5. 
   Altidude (Virginia) why is NASA going to shoot a missile @ the moon? I mean if they think there’s water there why not send one of those cool toys have to DIG!! 08 Oct 2009 from web
6. 
   useifnot (Undisclosed) So if NASA can land on the moon, why would they need to bomb the moon to collect the samples? 08 Oct 2009 from web

Even Stephen Colbert had something to say:

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   StephenAtHome nasa’s bombing the moon. finally, retribution for all those years of moonings 08 Oct 2009 from web

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