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Published online 19 June 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.581
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Apollo 40 years on
Exploring the legacy of the first manned lunar missions.
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While I'm glad to be seeing a return to the Moon, I can't help thinking it's a waste to simply abandon the shuttle program to revert to a slightly jacked-up Apollo. We ought to be thinking in terms of a new system shuttling between Earth and lunar orbit.