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Lunar Luggage! (Moon Matters).(Brief Article)
Astronauts who plan to work on the moon take special equipment, including a strong rope, a shovel, a radio that allows them to communicate with their spacecraft whenever they leave it, and a special vehicle to travel over sand dunes and hills.
If you were an astronaut walking on the moon, how would you use the rope? the shovel? What kinds of things would you communicate back to the spacecraft? Write about it.
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Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, did so on July 20, 1969. His famous quote from that walk is, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
How many people have been to the moon since then? What have scientists ...
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