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Relive the Apollo program at AOL’s We Choose The Moon website, celebrating the 40th anniversay of the Apollo lunar landings.

Nice one, AOL! A great look back at one of the most extraordinary human achievements ever.
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At 3:25 on June 11 2009, Kaguya safely (!) impacted with the Moon’s surface.

I watched that day, on Tanegashima Island, as the rocket burst into the sky and powered towards the distant moon, carrying it’s satellite cargo. And now that same satellite’s long, long journey
has come to an end. It’s a strange and sad feeling to think of it crashing into the surface of the moon, up there, all those miles away.
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