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There's an Extremely Stupid Reason NASA Scientists Can't Study China's Amazing New Moon Rocks

Why did NASA upset about China not giving them the the lunar soil. Didn't NASA's Apollo 16 mission return a whopping 26 pounds of moon rock in 1972 ?


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"China welcomes scientists from all countries to apply according to the processes and share in the benefits."


Earlier this week, China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe landed in Inner Mongolia, delivering the first-ever samples collected from the far side of the Moon.


The mission has the international scientific community excited — the far side of the Moon, which permanently faces away from the Earth, remains mysterious, with only China having touched down on its surface so far.


But there's one nation that will be barred from poring over the exceedingly rare samples: the United States.


That's because the US enacted a law called the Wolf Amendment in 2011, which prevents NASA from using government funds to cooperate directly with China.





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