NASA to crash $79 million spacecraft into moon,

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mrstickball said:
Why not launch an ICBM with a conventional warhead? I'd think that would have been cheaper.

Can ICBM get away from earth gravity pull ?

In other words are ICBM capable of reaching Escape velocity ?

And are we really sure they cost less than 80M $ ? because afaik  single long range air-to-air missile from Tomcat fighter is around one million USD.