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The Moon by Oliver Morton modern fiction the dramatic fall in EuropeThere have been only six crewed landings on the Moon, with the last taking place in 1972, said James McConnachie in The Sunday Times. Since then, the Moon has sat neglected in space like a dusty museum piece. But as Oliver Morton shows in this brilliant book, we are on the brink of a new era of lunar exploration. And this time, he writes, it will be undertaken by men and women from many more places, and with more agendas, than were in the American