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SPACE EXPLORATION: Europe Embarks on Leisurely Lunar Odyssey
Daniel Clery
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.--The European Space Agency on 27 September dispatched a spacecraft on a mission that will try to determine how the moon was formed and test a next-generation type of propulsion.