Another step towards returning people to Earth’s satellite
A new Moon race has begun
THE NEXT ten months will see a new race to the Moon played out on Earth, as three groups vie to construct a successor to the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) which took the astronauts of the Apollo project there half a century ago.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “A new Moon race”
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