U.S. is Now Policeman of the Galaxy!

The same day Obama won the Nobel Prize in Peace for sounding peaceful as he continued Bush's warmongering, the U.S. government, perhaps on behalf of the Earth, bombed the moon. Has NASA outlived its purpose? Indeed, the way governments have treated space is disconcerting, as the move has been toward militarization and weaponization. See Peter Orvetti's radical proposal to leave space to the free market. Furthermore, is space travel even a Constitutional function of the U.S. government?

Scientists worldwide are keeping an eye on the sky. They're watching the huge clouds of lunar soil kicked up by a NASA probe which smashed into the moon on Friday.

The goal of NASA's ambitious project is to try to find water under the moon's surface.
But what secrets can this mission reveal? RT's Priya Sridhar talks to space expert from NASA James Obers.