The Big Picture: Preparing for the Moon During the Apollo program, NASA sent many of its astronauts to Hawaii’s Big Island for field training in the run up to missions. The surface of the Moon isn’t an environment that’s easy to replicate, and the volcanic island chain’s barren, rocky…

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