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Are We Losing the Moon?
Are we losing the moon? That's not a hypothetical. China's robotic missions have already landed on the far side of the moon — a place no country had ever reached before — scooping up lunar soil containing deposits of Helium-3, considered by many scientists to be the holy grail of clean fusion energy. Their next mission targets the lunar south pole, where water ice could fuel every future mission into deep space. Whoever controls that resource doesn't just own the moon. They control the future of space exploration itself.My guest is Brendan Byrne, host of NPR's "Are We There Yet?" — the go-to…
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