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Lunar science takes off at NASA

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June 13, 2009 7:00 AM PDT

As NASA embarks on the path to its next manned lunar mission, it is ramping up its efforts to study, and assist others to study, the science of the moon. As such, it recently launched the Lunar Science Institute, an organization run out of the space agency's Ames Research facility in Silicon Valley that is somewhat of a clearinghouse of--and funding arm for--the latest research into the moon.

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