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Thursday, June 18. 2009, 12:00:00 AM UTC

An Atlas V rocket launches the LRO and LCROSS spacecraft to explore the Moon.//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8107197.stm (BBC)

NASA launches the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS probes to the Moon, the first American lunar mission since Lunar Prospector in 1998.