It has also acquired for the ISS two microscopes and a centrifuge that can simulate the gravity on, say, the moon or Mars.

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We are told that Barack Obama believes too much in an America of high principle and bold endeavor, but when John Kennedy called of going to the moon, he didn't say it's too far to get there.

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They say if you visit when the moon is full, the mountains shall open up and a boat will appear carrying a princess...

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Some say all amavasyas - or new moon nights - are auspicious for bathing in the Ganges, but Mauni (silent) Amavasya is also special as many pilgrims do not speak until they have had their bath.

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"Needless to say, we are over the moon to have Terry Gou and Foxconn join us on our mission to scale GoPro into one of the great enabling companies of our time, " said GoPro Founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman.

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In the end he agreed to say "space", but not "Moon".

BBC: Neil Armstrong: Your memories

Vasco travels over the ocean and over the rainbow, where he meets Judy Garland and the Tinman, to say nothing of Miss Universe perched on the moon in a gorgeous light (the part was gorgeously sung by Janice Felty).

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"The Blue Moon Saloon, " my brother Layton and I used to say while we floated in the creek, our noses pointed pompously upward, as if only gentry frequented the establishment, though in retrospect the opposite was more probable: these days, Divide was a town of holdout ranchers, fanatical fishermen, and the occasional Unabomber, not dandy fops with a mind for parlor games.

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Some would say a mosquito is worth one hundred trillion dollars (and if you were marooned alone on the moon, and suddenly a mosquito appeared, I believe that little guy would be worth all the galaxies in the universe, in terms of biological companionship).

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