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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My teens are very into it!

This is a dumb question but have we seen the back of the moon before?  I was a little like — what if they got to the other side and it turns out there’s like a big hole in it, or a rainforest, or a colony of Vulcans that have been studying us?  Mostly just kidddijg, but was wondering if we might find something unexpected. [/quote]

Yes, a bunch of Apollo missions have seen the back of the moon -- 20+ astronauts from the Apollo missions have seen it from space capsules prior to this mission, plus there have been lots of unmanned missions taking photos of it since the 1950s.

It's still significant that this crew was the first people to see it in person in over 50 years, and they can take photos with updated equipment (a lot better than what they had back during Apollo) and with greater control than an unmanned mission.

A lot of this mission is just setting up for the next one though -- trying out the artemis rockets on a manned mission before we send up a lander. I think that's why some people are like "so?" But obviously if we are going to send people to the surface to (1) land in a different place than we have before and (2) actually explore some of these craters and caves to look for ice, we are going to do a trial fly by mission. It's an important step.[/quote]

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