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50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2

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For more than 50 years, Deep Space Station 43 has been an invaluable tool for space probes as they explore our solar system and push into the beyond. It has supported missions, Kramer noted, “from the Apollo program and NASA’s Mars exploration rovers such as Spirit and Opportunity to the Voyagers’ grand tour of the solar system. “In

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China Aims for a Permanent Moon Base in the 2030s

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Ouyang Ziyuan , a cosmochemist and early driving force for Chinese lunar exploration, notes in a July talk the potential extraction of helium-3 , delivered to the lunar surface by unfiltered solar wind, for nuclear fusion (which would require major breakthroughs on Earth and in space). China is already conducting. China is already conducting.

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