What it would be like to live on the moon

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The idea of building a lunar outpost has long captured people's imaginations. But what would it really be like to live on the moon?

Space exploration has long focused on the moon, with Earth's satellite the setting for a number of significant missions. A 1959 Soviet spacecraft photographed the moon's far side for the first time, and in 1969, NASA landed people on the lunar surface for the first time. Numerous missions followed, including NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which beamed home the highest-resolution topographical lunar map to date, covering 98.2% of the moon's surface.

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