“We can finally fly off into NASA” – Kanye West

NASA, in a effort to capture public interest, took a page out of Hip Hop Marketing 101… by sending shots at the moon. Bombs over the sea of tranquility?

The internet was a buzz with what some deemed a controversial mission to the moon and Twitter and Face book updates ran rampant with people protesting, some in jest, as to why must NASA Bomb the moon and if the end was indeed near. I must admit for a project that was apparently underway for over 3 years, hearing about it 4 hours before it’s completion leads me to believe NASA should have spent some of its budget on a Street Team.

The mission, dubbed LCross, which stands for something much longer that you can Google yourself, has a sole purpose to see if there is indeed water on the moon. The reason for this is so astronauts can eventually inhabit the moon in 300 years and yadda yadda yadda.

I actually think NASA was in danger of losing their budget and had to do something that would garner public interest. We’re a long way from 1969’s man on the moon and NASA has long since… fell off. Lo and Behold however with a few well aimed rockets, NASA is a new media darling, even landing a Trending Topic slot on popular social network website Twitter. It placed right between #MileyComeBack and #HowUKnowUHood respectively.

As a result of the buzz, regardless of whether or not finding a few ice particles on the moon means anything, NASA heads are already forming missions to follow up on the success of LCross.

Sources speculate that a follow up mission to Pluto, costing in the range of 59 Trillion dollars, is in the formative stages. The purpose of the mission is to determine once and for all if Pluto is indeed a planet or not.

A more controversial mission to send a baboon into the heart of the sun for “shits and giggles” has been scrapped due to lack of public support.