There was this 1977 science fiction book called 'Inherit the Stars' by James Hogan [0] about finding the corpse of 50,000 year old astronaut on the moon. He car

There was this 1977 science fiction book called 'Inherit the Stars' by James Hogan [0] about finding the corpse of 50,000 year old astronaut on the moon. He carried a 'book' that was too fragile to read and to explore with any kind of electromagnetic radiation. They used neutron tomography, like they do here, to 'read' the book. The author predicted something like to emerge by 2027. Neutron tomography has been around for a while [1]. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776489.Inherit_the_Stars https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776489.Inherit_the_Stars [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_tomography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_tomography