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Today there is a lot of excited talk about going to the Moon again. Shining brightly in our sky, it calls to us like a celestial siren, just as it always has done. NASA is still debating whether they should send astronauts straight to Mars, bypassing the Moon altogether, or only go to Mars after a number of successful precursor missions to Earth’s natural satellite. Meanwhile, the European Space Agency is looking to the Moon as the potential site of a scientific outpost where different nations could work together in a ‘lunar village’, much like international scientists now work in Antarctica. Private companies are also planning to mine the Moon for resources, and there’s even a competition to land robot rovers on the Moon and have them send live video back to Earth.
