Testbed Will Be First European Spacecraft to Explore the Moon

Credit: EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
Six decades after a group of German rocketeers painted a fanciful Moon maiden on the first rocket to reach outer space, Europe is on the verge of sending a spacecraft to explore Earth's satellite and hopefully answer some old questions about how it was formed. Unlike Wernher von Braun's A-4 rocket...

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