Did they go? Soon, we’ll know.
So in the spring of 2009, NASA will send a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, up to map the moon in its entirety, along with a host of other scientific stuff.
"That's one small step for man..."
Even if you couldn’t care less about NASA or LRO or WTF, the mission site is worth visiting for one reason alone: when you get to the part where they list the reasons for going, a glaring omission is, “To prove we really went there 40 years ago!” I think NASA will enjoy debunking the hoaxmongers more than all the terabytes of data combined…
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UPDATE: We won’t have to wait for spring. India just sent up an orbiter to “achieve high-resolution images of the moon’s topography”. That should reveal all the stuff the Americans left there 40 years ago. We hope.
Its name, Chandraayaan-1, means “moon craft”. Good name…