FOUR BOLTS of lightning struck the launch pad of NASA's 'Mega Moon Rocket' while it was undergoing its so-called 'wet dress rehearsal' tests at Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, April 2.
. The craft — which will carry three radiation measuring “phantoms”, including two female torsos and one life-size male manikin — will pass as close to the lunar surface as 62 miles, but also journey out some 40,000 miles beyond the Moon before it returns to Earth to splash down in the Pacific Ocean near California.
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