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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Large screens are tuned to NASA Television to allow employees at NASA's Kennedy Space Center a live view of the impact of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, and its spent Centaur upper stage on the moon. The employees seen here are in the 5th Floor Conference Room of Operations Support Building II; another group of employees viewed the impact on screens in the Operations and Checkout Building's Mission Briefing Room. The employee event was sponsored by the NASA Exchange, the External Relations Directorate and KSC Launching Leaders. The goal of the LCROSS mission is to search for water ice on the moon, in support of future human lunar exploration. For additional information on the LCROSS mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/LCROSS. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis