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Old Scientist: Space travel? Waste of money

You can rely on New Scientist to frown at space spendthrifts, as our scan through issues from Junes gone by reveals

Regulars

TV Apollo 8

Space

First mission to the moon: The real lesson

Culture

Mission control

Space

Go at throttle up: The secret world of NASA’s mission control

Culture

Flamsteed crater (bottom) with ring-like hint of another bigger impact

Space

Moon's hidden craters detected by gravity mapper

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Trinity nuclear bomb test

Space

Glass from nuclear test site shows the moon was born dry

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Oxygen ions sent from Earth have been spotted on the moon

Space

Oxygen ions sent from Earth have been spotted on the moon

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Apollo 17 lunar buggy

Space

Private moon mission plans to revisit Apollo 17 landing site

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Animation showing the before and after of an impact crater

Space

The moon has hundreds more craters than we thought

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The dark side of the moon

Space

Tiny lightning bolt explosions can vaporise the moon’s thin soil

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Roy Lichtenstein – Eclipse of the sun (1975)

Space

Solar eclipses: heaven-sent chance to mix art and science

To understand the sun at eclipse you need an artist's eye, finds Science Museum director Ian Blatchford

Features

Space

China's Jade Rabbit moon rover dead after 31 months on surface

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Earth

Volcano in Chile dampened lunar eclipse's glory

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Space

Mars moons may have formed after collision with Pluto-like world

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Space

Moon’s lack of water down to ancient shift in its spin axis

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