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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
It also isn’t any darker over there. It’s just the “far side” of the moon to us earthlings.
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But it is for a few days a month. Night on the near side of the moon is awash in earth glow. But on the far side it is dark.
I think the best application for moon mission is as a proving ground for technology, as some have mentioned resource extraction, but also life support system, radiation shielding, long duration-lowG health impacts, crop production....