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Tuesday, July 09, 2019

The Moon

NY Times: The Moon Is a Hazardous Place to Live - If we get back to the lunar surface, astronauts will have to contend with much more than perilous rocket flights and the vacuum of space. By Shannon Hall
When the Apollo astronauts walked on the moon, the dust clung to their spacesuits, scratched their visors and made their eyes water and their throats sore. It damaged the seals on the boxes of rock and soil that they brought back to Earth. It even smelled like gunpowder inside the lander.

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