The Greatest Leap, part 6: After Apollo, NASA still searching for an encore

Ars Technica » Scientific Method 2018-02-13

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Apollo: The Greatest Leap

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And then it was all over.

After the drama of Apollo 13, the final four human missions to the Moon in 1971 and 1972 flew smoothly. With each successive, increasingly routine landing, astronauts made longer forays out onto the dusty lunar terrain and delved deeper into the scientific secrets hidden there.

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