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Whoever Controls the Moon Controls the Solar System

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The moon might be teeming with the most important resource for space exploration. And everybody is racing to claim it.

In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy declared that his nation would be the first to land a man on the moon. That ambitious goal would later be fulfilled as two NASA astronauts took wobbly steps across the lunar surface on July 20, 1969, much to the dismay of Russia’s...

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