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David Forsyth
Jan 04, 2024
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Footprints on the Moon: Pic by NASA

Space has fascinated mankind since the first awestruck human gazed up at the stars. The scale is literally unimaginable, the potential unknowable.

Carl Sagan, the great science communicator and astronomer, put it brilliantly when he attested there were more stars in space than there are grains of sand on earth.

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