But this previously classified mission was illuminated at an awards ceremony this week for two of the combatants.
The spacecraft — the first to strike the Moon since the Lunar Prospector, in 1999 — will be part of a previously announced mission in which a larger craft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, will fly around the Moon to map its surface.
Previously, the mission had been focused on ensuring security as a facet of the country's development.
What if one day you woke up to a news story like this? Feb 24: Tony Perkins, President of the formerly anti-abortion Family Research Council, admitted to the Associated Press that the organization's previously stated mission of saving the "unborn" had been ceded to other priorities.
The notes session quickly devolves into the team members pitching their own versions of a successful sci-fi film, including a zombie invasion (from Mitchell), a previously unseen mission where O'Neill became invisible (from Carter), "tributes" to The Wizard of Oz and Farscape (from Vala), and Teal'c as a private investigator (from Teal'c himself).
The total was expected to exceed 140,000 when previously authorized missions were fully deployed.
A new quest mechanic links together previously disparate missions into a coherent thread, boosted further by actually-interesting cutscenes, a first for the game.
Interviews with more than two dozen senior officials involved in the effort provided the outlines of previously unreported missions to mute Al Qaeda's message, turn the jihadi movement's own weaknesses against it and illuminate Al Qaeda's errors whenever possible.
Only the US, Russia and Europe have previously sent missions to Mars, and India has succeeded on its first attempt - an achievement that eluded even the Americans and the Soviets.
It's a situation that hasn't changed much in the years since the mission – previously Monuc but known as Monusco –came to be.
