NASA uses remote sand dunes as stand-in for moon

July 30th, 2008 By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS , Associated Press Writer

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A K-10 Red robot is seen June 10, 2008, in Moses Lake, Wash. NASA scientists and contractors spent two weeks in Moses Lake field testing some of the vehicles and robots that will be used when humans return to the moon later this century. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

(AP) -- Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon.

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• Egnite - Jul 30, 2008
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  Lol, atleast they're not using a studio this time :-P
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