July 20th is the 40th anniversary of humankind’s first intrepid steps onto a celestial body beyond the Earth. Yet within 5 years of that most triumphant moment in our species’ history, we left the moon and have yet to return.
But what if we had not left? What if NASA, along other international space agency, had continued to visit the moon, setup a colony there, and launched further manned explorations to Mars and beyond? The following article in New Scientists depicts an interesting, as well as nostalgic, “what if” scenario. What if we had never left the Moon? Read on to learn more.
