Scientists Debate Return to the Moon
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Channel: Voice of America · 2018 · News & Politics
It's been 45 years since men last set foot on the Moon. The year was 1972. Back then, the fastest commercially available microprocessor could handle a maximum of 16 kilobytes of memory. Today the average smartphone can crunch several millions of kilobytes. But huge leaps in computing power have not been matched by similar advances in space travel. VOA’s George Putic has more. Originally published at - https://www.voanews.com/a/scientists-debate-return-to-moon/4331670.html