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Alan Stern's Golden Spike Sets Sights on the Moon
03/04/2013 | 28:50
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Alan Stern is back to tell us about Golden Spike, his new company that plans to put human clients on the surface of the moon by the end of this decade.
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New Horizons: Encounter Planning Accelerates
Posted 2013/05/17 10:18 CDT | 2 comments
Back in 2005 and 2006, when Pluto’s second and third moons (Nix and Hydra) were discovered, searches by astronomers for still more moons didn’t reveal any. So the accidental discovery of Pluto’s fourth moon by the Hubble Space Telescope in mid-2011 raised the possibility that the hazards in the Pluto system might be greater than previously anticipated.
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