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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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