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Mapping the Moon for Apollo

  • Written by Timothy Swindle, Professor of Planetary Sciences and Geosciences, University of Arizona
Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, humans stepped onto another celestial body and into history.NASA

At an International Astronomical Union meeting in 1955, noted astronomer Gerard Kuiper asked for suggestions and collaborators on a project to make a map of the Moon. At the time, the best lunar atlases had hand-drawn images, and Kuiper wanted to use...

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