The Straight Dope answers your burning questions: Did astronauts train in ecological wastelands on earth to get used to the barren moon?

Ed. note: This piece, by Cecil Adams, will appear in next week’s issue of Creative Loafing.In his book Collapse, Jared Diamond claims, “When NASA wanted to find some place on Earth resembling the surface of the Moon, so that our astronauts preparing for the first moon landing could practice in an environment similar to what they would encounter, NASA picked a formerly green area of Iceland that is now utterly barren.” This struck me as wrong. Growing up, I heard the slag fields around Sudbury, O
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