Apollo 18, 19 and 20 were cancelled. Plans were for those missions to include a little "moon flyer", an improvement on the rover that could get astronauts to more remote places where the lander could not land.
Also, they were going to send an unmanned lander with supplies so that the following manned lander could stay longer.
This new technology would have got them to places like crater Aristarchus where over many years, strange lights have been reported. Also, they needed to get into one of the so-called rills - huge canyon like depressions that are still completely unexplained.
Another was planned to go to the other side of the moon. Radio contact would be maintained with Mission control via lunar satellites that they would set up in advance.
The great mystery of the "far side" is that it is almost completely void of the dark, flat, so-called Mares that we see on the Earth-side, and easily visible with the naked eye.
2006-10-05
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