Lost spacecraft found on the moon

All the talk about the crashed probe, but WHY did it crashed just like that? No one is saying anything about why? Strange that probe actualy makes 800 photos and then crashes out of a sudden ( i am certanitly not implying aliens nor decepticons ).

It states in the article that it was intentionally crashed.

Exactly. All five Lunar Orbiters were crashed into the moon so that they could not present a potential threat to the Apollo missions. I would point out that this story is old news. The article linked to in the original post is from 8[sup]th[/sup] August 2011, although that does not prevent it being interesting. Curiously it appears not to have been reported on UM at the time. Better late than never. Since this discovery LRO has taken ever increasingly detailed images of the Apollo landing sites and some of the Russian unmanned probes landing sites. Many of those images can be found in UM&#... [More]

Sure it was lost? Conspiracy theories!

"Lost spacecraft found on the moon" Unfortunately it's one of 'ours'.

Ahaa i see thanks wasp and raft didn't read it fully my bad!

Look long enough with bright enough minds and eyes and we shall See ! Great post Waspie ! And orig. poster ! Sorry bout that I thought Waspie posted that first. Offeirland.

How is it lost if it was crashed intentionally?

Because the actual location of the impact was unknown.

Transformers 3 anyone?? Humor me lol