Posted on 04/21/2008 8:28:02 AM PDT by RightWhale
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The dark side of the moon is dark in the sense that Africa was the dark continent, that dark matter is dark, and that black boxes are black:
It is unseen. The moon’s rotational period is equal to its orbital period, so the same side faces the Earth.
OF course, there’s also a dark side in the sense of day and nigh, also/... and the moon’s days are 29 times longer than ours!
NASA has known about this for a long time.
http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=129366
NASA/JSC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Lunar Habitat Mockup. The contractor shall fabricate a man-rated, electrically conductive habitat mockup for NASA Johnson Space Center. The mockup will be used to evaluate candidate RF Wireless and RFID technology for use on ISS or other Constellation modules.
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