Science
NASA patented a faster, cheaper route to the moon. The first spacecraft to use it could make Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about the universe. – MSN Money
NASA’s patenting a new route to lunar orbit assures that the path will remain open to any spacecraft capable of making the trip.
© University of Colorado Boulder; NASA
An illustration of the Dark Ages Polarimeter Pathfinder, or Dapper, spacecraft orbiting past the far side of the moon. University of Colorado Boulder; NASA
The moon is both seductively close to Earth and cosmically far away: Decades after the end of the space race, it remains extraordinarily expensive and difficult to actually get there.
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The journey just got a bit easier, however, thanks to a freshly published NASA invention. The agency’s pa…
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