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Why is NASA bothering to go back to the Moon if we've already been there?

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Why is NASA bothering to go back to the Moon if we've already been there?
NASA has struggled to deal with the widespread sentiment that NASA has “been there, done that."
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—The first time NASA launched humans toward the Moon, in December 1968, the United States was a deeply fractured nation.

The historic flight of three people into the unknown brought a measure of solace to a country riven by assassinations, riots, political discord, and a deeply unpopular foreign war.

If history does not repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. Today, four humans are on the way to the Moon, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen. They do so, once again, amid a troubled world.

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