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[Stephen Clark] After more than 53 years, humans may finally return to the Moon this week (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Its more like if you lived in the eastern hemisphere and were like "im going to the grand canyon" and only planned on driving by on your road trip.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They're getting within 6500km of the surface, after travelling 385.000km. So they're going 98.3% of the way to the moon.

So that's like going from Beijing to the grand canyon, and staying in the western suburbs of Las Vegas.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Right. For all intensive purposes, they went to the moon lmao