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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

�鶹��ý was opposed to the Apollo missions from the start, and complained for decades that the money to send people into space was being wasted. Why were we so grumpy and pessimistic about putting a man on the moon?

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Apollo 11 looks like yesterday in new TV show using restored footage

Apollo 11 looks like yesterday in new TV show using restored footage

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India’s moon mission Chandrayaan 2 delayed just before launch

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James Lovelock standing near the sea at Chesil Beach

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James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

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India is about to launch a lander and rover to the moon’s south pole

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In this picture taken on July 10, 2019 a man walks past a screen displaying a computer-generated image of the Hayabusa2 probe, during a news broadcast at Akihabara district in Tokyo. - Japan's Hayabusa2 probe landed successfully on a distant asteroid for a final touchdown on July 11, 2019, hoping to collect samples that could shed light on the evolution of the solar system

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Hayabusa 2 lands on distant asteroid and collects another sample

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The moon race was about short-termism and control – we can do better

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Quiz: How good is your knowledge of the moon?

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Quiz: How good is your knowledge of the moon?

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Virgin Galactic to become the first publicly traded space travel firm

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A close-up view of a commemorative plaque left on the Moon at the Hadley-Apennine landing site in memory of 14 NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, now deceased.

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7 bizarre objects from the festival's worth of trash left on the moon

The Apollo 11 lunar lander and other moon missions left behind some weird stuff, including cannons, bags of poop, golf balls and the secrets to top magic tricks

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

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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

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Jodrell Bank Observatory honoured with UNESCO World Heritage status

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