The U.S. space agency is preparing to return to the moon. An unmanned rocket is scheduled to blast off late Friday from Virginia's Eastern Shore with a robotic explorer that will study the lunar atmosphere and dust. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, known as LADEE, is the size of a small car, and it will collect data for 100 days as it orbits our moon. Scientists want to learn more about the moon's thin atmosphere because they think it could be common in our solar ...
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