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The Moon is full of secrets that the U.S. government

May 30, 2017 by Catherine Pope

The Moon is full of secrets that the U.S. government is not yet sure it knows yet: Earth's gravity, its atmosphere, the moon's gravity, its composition, and even its chemical makeup.

As the nation tries to understand the moon's gravity, as it tries to figure out what kind of life might exist on it, the U.S. government is trying to answer the question, and is getting to grips with a growing body of evidence that there is no life on the moon at all. Scientists are starting to come to terms with the fact that the Earth rotates and that the moon is a hollow sphere with a thin layer of clouds. (One of the biggest mysteries about the moon is the fate of comets, or comets orbiting Earth.)

With the Apollo program, NASA has built the Lunar Orbiter to be the best way to study the moon. That's one of the things that got the government so excited about the spacecraft. After all, we used to use that same spacecraft to study the Moon.

But at the same time, the government is also looking for ways to get around NASA's limitations. The first major step is to establish a lunar ground station for commercial research.

NASA is also working to develop an interplanetary space station. This will take several years, but it would be nice to see a space station on the Moon in between missions such as manned missions to and from Mars. (NASA is also working to establish a space station in the heart of the Ganymede region of Kazakhstan, and is considering a small, reusable space station for humans to explore the lunar surface.) And while NASA doesn't plan to launch the Moon into space, the agency is also working on research to learn more about its moon lander.

Now that the spacecraft is in orbit, the U.S. government can look to other countries for space partners.