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LIVING ON THE MOON

total of 12 people have stepped on Earth’s natural satellite, but could we call it home? Astronauts will be making fresh footprints in its dusty regolith in 2025 after a 50-year absence. Yet even now scientists have ambitions of achieving a long-term human presence on the Moon. Since the last Apollo landing, NASA and other space agencies have been experimenting with new

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