Thursday, January 24, 2013

When We Blew Up Arizona to Simulate the Moon

In the late 1960s, NASA created an offworld analogue with dynamite and fertilizer bombs outside Flagstaff, Arizona, so that astronauts could train for the Apollo missions_._

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