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Apollo Expeditions To The Moon: Chapter 5 Scouting the Moon By Edgar M. Cortright

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Chapter 5 Scouting the Moon By Edgar M. Cortright

After centuries of studying the Moon and its motions, most astronomers faced with diminishing returns had abandoned it to lovers and poets by the time that Sputnik ushered in the space age. The hardy few who had not been wooed away to greener astronomical pastures were soon to be richly rewarded for their patience.

Before the invention of the telescope in 1608, astronomers had to be content with two good eyes and a fertile imagination to surmise the nature of the lunar surface. As a consequence they mainly devoted themselves to the mathematics of the Moon's motions relative to the Earth and Sun. The early ...

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