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Can’t go to the moon? This crater in Canada is the next best thing
- eesmith 4y ago"Next best thing" seems to be very much based on the beholder. The Apollo astronauts visited Iceland, Hawaii, Meteor Crater, Craters of the Moon Nat'n Park, and more. All as geological proxies for the Moon. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/going-moon-apollo-11-astronauts-trained-these-five-sites-180972452/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/going-moon-apollo-11-a... lists a few more, including "the crew cited the Nevada National Security Site (also known as the Nevada Test Site) as the most beneficial to their training.") About 5 days ago, there was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33583283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33583283 about how ESA and NASA send astronauts to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, because its "geology can be uncannily similar to that of the Moon". Now there's a crater in Canada.