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Astronaut on Moon

Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system

8 July 2019

Moon rocks collected by the Apollo missions contain a pristine record of Earth's history. Reading it can teach us where best to look for habitable exoplanets
Astronauts in mock cockpit

Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

8 July 2019

Before anyone had been to space, NASA simulated everything that could go possibly wrong – efforts that averted catastrophe as the Apollo 11 crew were about to land

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