NASA successfully lands LADEE spacecraft in the moon

At roughly 12:30AM ET early on Friday morning, a soda machine-sized NASA spacecraft slammed into the dark side of the moon at 3,600 miles per hour. The impact was entirely planned by NASA engineers in order to conclude the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer program, which launched late last year. After studying the composition of the lunar atmosphere for months, the spacecraft didn’t have the fuel to continue flight and engineers decided it was best to place it down on the dark side of the moon.