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Is the south pole the right place for a lunar base?


This weekend, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center will host the Max Power (or, as the agency capitalizes it, MAX POWER) air show. Besides being an unintentional homage to an episode of “The Simpsons,” Max Power is, as NASA describes it, “America’s newest and most exciting aerospace technology expo and air show.” It will include flight demonstrations and static displays of aircraft and space technology.

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