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Technicians are shown inspecting the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) at Northrop Grumman Space Technologies facilities in Redondo Beach, Calif., shortly after the kick off of integration and test. LCROSS is scheduled to launch in winter 2008-2009 timeframe and three months later, the mission will send a spent rocket stage to hit near the moon's south pole while the satellite studies the impact plume for evidence of water and other materials that astronauts could use at a future lunar outpost.