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Australia is preparing for a full lunar eclipse of the sun on Wednesday.
And it isn't like I didn't tell you so. Mining the moon.
By Damon Poeter
November 9, 2012 05:09pm EST
With President Barack Obama (click here) back in the White House for a second term, NASA is reportedly getting ready to reveal plans to send astronauts back to the moon and possibly even to build an orbiting base around Earth's satellite.
It's been speculated for some time that the space agency has been mulling the construction of a floating Moon base that would serve as a launching site for manned missions to Mars and other destinations more distant than any humans have traveled to so far....
