Monday 14 November 2022

Nasa’s rocket launch to the moon next week aims to close 50-year-long gap

Nasa’s rocket launch to the moon next week aims to close 50-year-long gap

Fifty years ago this month, mission managers at the US space agency Nasa gave the final go-ahead for what would turn out to be humanity’s most recent odyssey to the moon. Few realized at the time it would be more than half a century before Nasa would be ready to return, not least Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan, whose belief as he stepped back into the lunar module in December 1972 was that it would be “not too long into the future” that astronauts were there again.

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