On Apollo 15, astronauts were looking for lunar rocks. One of them noticed something off the planned route and went to get it. The rock became known as the seat belt assault. Jonathan McLean: If there's an opportunity to go to a new completely new place, I start something new, I die there as fine as me.
NASA’s Artemis mission is the first step toward a long-term human settlement on the moon. Vox’s Unexplainable examines whether humans are even capable of living far from Earth for an extended period of time.
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