What do we need to know to land on the moon again?

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5750, 2005, Pages 983-985

  Zuber, Maria T ^a   Garrick Bethell, Ian ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOON;

ASTRONOMY; COSMONAUT; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 27744585147     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1115126     Document Type: Review

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