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Hey, welcome to NASA Launchpad! I'm your host Vince 
Whitfield. What's one of the biggest necessities  

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for survival here on Earth? I'll give you a 
hint. About 70 percent of the planet is covered in it.  

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That's right! Water. So, what do you think will be an 
important commodity as we send astronauts back to  

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the Moon? You catch on quick. Yeah -  water. And you 
know it's not just for drinking, it also needs  

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to be used for food preparation and cooling 
electronic equipment. And think about this  

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when astronauts head back to the Moon 
they're going to be staying there for a while. 

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And I don't know about you, but I wouldn't 
want to be hanging out with a group of people  

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in an enclosed space for an extended 
period of time when we couldn't take showers.  

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But water's also pretty heavy with a mass of about 
one kilogram per liter. There's a limit to how much  

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stuff astronauts can take with them as they 
go into space. Hm. Wouldn't it be nice if there was  

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already water waiting for them out there? And that 
brings us to LCROSS, the Lunar Crater Observation  

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and Sensing Satellite. Its mission is to search for 
water on the Moon. It's a pretty exciting mission.  

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So exciting in fact that John Marmie, LCROSS
Deputy Project Manager, was inspired to write  

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a song about it and it's called, fittingly 
enough, "Water On the Moon." Take a listen but  

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pay close attention because the lyrics kind 
of tell the story of LCROSS. 5..4..3..2..1

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♪

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♪ signs are in the universe ♪

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♪ drifting out in space ♪

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♪ somewhere beyond the darkness 
lie the answers to the human race ♪

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♪ stars shining in the galaxy
will we see them face to face? ♪

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♪ I don't know what lasts a month but ♪

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♪ Curiosity will lead the way.  I wanna go faster, 
faster and in the air we're gonna crash. ♪

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♪ Galileo through the looking glass. Oooh. ♪

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♪ Like finding water on the Moon. ♪

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♪

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♪ What a wonderous sense of destiny. ♪

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♪ Be the first to step foot on Mars. ♪

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♪ I wanna go faster, faster and in the air we're gonna crash ♪

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♪ by Galileo through his looking glass ♪

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♪ that's for reason our dreamer's eyes are gazing into a sense of purpose from our view ♪

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♪ like finding water on the Moon. ♪

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♪

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♪ I wanna go faster, faster ♪

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♪ 

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♪ Water on the moon ♪

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There you go. That was performed by John 
Marmie and Jeff Petro. 

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Catchy lyrics huh?
Too bad my textbook isn't written in songs.

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 I might actually enjoy cracking books. 

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Now after listening I know you're probably bubbling with 
questions. What would finding water on the Moon mean?

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How could we use that water? Would lunar water 
be the same as water here on Earth? Good questions. 

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But they're going to have to wait. Keep checking 
back. We'll have more info on LCROSS soon.  

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Until then, I'm Vince Whitfield. 
Cheers for watching NASA Launchpad.

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