"NASA has chosen three new scientific payloads under its Commercial Lunar    
   Payload Services initiative, which is part of the Artemis program. Of the   
   three,    
   two will be landing on the lunar hemisphere that always faces away from our    
   planet. It will mark the first time NASA is landing payloads on the far side   
   of    
   the Moon, and the purpose is to gather data about the area as a potential    
   future destination for Artemis astronauts.    
      
   The far side of the Moon remained untouched by machines and spacecraft    
   until China's Chang'e-4 mission landed on it back in 2019. There's still a lot   
   we    
   need to find out about the hemisphere before we start sending humans to visit    
   it. One of the proposals NASA picked, for instance, will land on an impact    
   crater called Schrödinger basin to better understand tectonic activity on the   
   far    
   side."   
      
   See:   
      
   https://www.engadget.com/nasa-first-payloads-far-side-of-the-moo   
   -104558989.html   
      
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