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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

NASA heads back to the Moon

05 Jan 1998

This week Lunar Prospector was successfully launched towards the Moon. It is NASA’s first lunar mission in over 25 years.

Interest in the Moon was heightened with the deployment of the Defense department’s Clementine

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