"On June 30, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted and published NASA's    
   patent for a series of orbital maneuvers, which Business Insider first learned    
   about via a tweet by a lawyer named Jeff Steck.   
      
   The technique isn't meant for large spaceships that carry astronauts or   
   rovers,    
   but for smaller, more tightly budgeted missions tasked with doing meaningful    
   science. And the first spacecraft to take advantage of this new orbital path   
   could    
   deliver unprecedented discoveries from the far side of the moon.   
      
   Called the Dark Ages Polarimeter Pathfinder, or Dapper, the upcoming mission   
   aims    
   to record, for the first time, low-frequency radio waves emitted during the    
   earliest epochs of the universe — when atoms, stars, black holes, and   
   galaxies    
   were just beginning to form, and where scientists may detect the first signals   
   of    
   as-yet-unseen dark matter."   
      
   See:   
      
   https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-patent-moon-travel-farside-   
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