theatlantic:

When We Blew Up Arizona to Simulate the Moon

Thanks to a well-timed tip from landscape blogger Alex Trevi of Pruned, Venue made a detour on our exit out of Flagstaff, Arizona, to visit the old black cinder fields of an extinct volcano—where, incredibly, NASA and its Apollo astronauts once practiced their, at the time, forthcoming landing on the moon.

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So cool. Too bad I didn’t know about this area while I was at college in Flagstaff!

(via pbsthisdayinhistory)

Source: The Atlantic

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