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Back to the Moon?

Posted by michael on from the nasa-will-probably-fake-this-one-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This BBC story discusses the prospects of probes returning to the moon. The article first mentions the ESA's SMART-1 probe, which will overfly the Apollo landing sites during 2003, and then talks with US scientists about why NASA should send probes back."

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  1. The moon. by papasui · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've always wondered about this, did we ever really land on the moon? Now I know we supposedly did, but its hard for me to believe that one trip was sufficient to discover everything that the moon has on it to explore. The other thing is that during this time it was a race against the Russians but moreover a race against Communism and what better way to show American superiority than to fabricate a lie saying we were the first to reach the moon? I've seen those pictures that show the flag waving like theres wind but it's not those that concern me, it's the fact that we never sent a second mission to the moon.