Is It Time to Go Back to the Moon? With so many exciting celestial bodies in our solar system and beyond, it’s easy to take the moon for granted. Sure, NASA crashed a probe into the lunar surface for science recently, but no human being has set foot on the moon since Apollo 17 in December 1972. Now Ian Crawford of Birkbeck College in London and his colleagues have co-authored a paper making the case for a return manned mission to the moon, to augment the many remote-sensing spacecraft sent into lunar orbit over the last ten years. keep reading

Is It Time to Go Back to the Moon?

With so many exciting celestial bodies in our solar system and beyond, it’s easy to take the moon for granted. Sure, NASA crashed a probe into the lunar surface for science recently, but no human being has set foot on the moon since Apollo 17 in December 1972.

Now Ian Crawford of Birkbeck College in London and his colleagues have co-authored a paper making the case for a return manned mission to the moon, to augment the many remote-sensing spacecraft sent into lunar orbit over the last ten years.

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Source: news.discovery.com

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    Short answer: YES. AND DON’T FORGET THE CHICKS THIS TIME.
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    iAN WHATCHU DOING
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    IAN CRAWFORD
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    Yes please! I would LOVE for us to return man to the moon.
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