Humans have conquered almost every piece of land in the known world so naturally we’d expand upwards… To the stars, but how we’d do that is still a question we’re trying to answer. Fortunately, we have a big and shiny sphere that hovers above us in the night sky. The other world that blots out the sun from the sky during some days and turns from chalk white to crimson red on other days. The moon.

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Michael Paterson for improvement in audio quality

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Sources :

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200000973/downloads/20200000973.pdf

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-mission.html

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/walking-on-rocket-propellant/#:~:text=The%20fuel%20can%20be%20many,propellant%20before%20takeoff%20is%20LOX.

https://hir.harvard.edu/not-so-green-technology-the-complicated-legacy-of-rare-earth-mining/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/moon-more-metallic-than-thought

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/years-late-and-billions-over-budget-nasas-most-powerful-rocket-finally-set-for-takeoff