Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

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Earth’s Moon is deserved of wide-spread exploration, far beyond early robotic and human exploration of the lunar south pole – extraterrestrial real estate now within the sights of NASA’s Artemis program, as well as other nations.

Outside of that lunar south pole target, yes indeed, the Moon is rife with attractive and scientifically important objectives of insight. That’s the view of a blue-ribbon group of experts convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

A report issued today contends that studying nonpolar regions of the Moon by human sorties can help erase scientific questions about Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor, as well as about the solar system and universe.

The study was undertaken by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) Committee on Key Nonpolar Destinations Across the Moon, an appraisal sponsored by NASA.

For more details, go to my new Scientific American story – “These are the most exciting potential human landing sites across the Moon…Besides building crewed outposts at the lunar south pole, where else should astronauts go on the Moon? An authoritative new report has suggestions” – at:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/report-pinpoints-future-exploration-sites-on-the-moon/