Surftwisted Surf Magazine

The two spacecraft should reach the moon in four to five days. One will enter into an orbit around the moon for a mapping mission while the other will swing past the moon and go into an elongated orbit around Earth that will put it on course to crash into a crater at the moon’s south pole in October.

Nasa said it expects the dramatic moon-impacting part of the mission to be “a smashing success”, with the impact likely to be visible from Earth.