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It was \u201cone giant leap for mankind,\u201d but the next step forward may require going back.\xa0Yes, back to the moon.\xa0Only this time the hardware may come from China.\xa0Or perhaps Europe.\xa0In fact, it seems that the only developed nation not going lunar is the U.S.\nFind out why our pockmarked satellite is such hot real estate, and whether it has the raw materials we\u2019d need to colonize it.\xa0A new theory of how the moon formed may tell us what\u2019s below its dusty surface.\nBut \u2013 before packing your bags \u2013 you\u2019ll want to skim Article IX of the U.N. treaty on planetary protection.\xa0We can\u2019t go contaminating any old planetary body, can we?\xa0\xa0\nGuests:\n\n\nJames Oberg - Former Space Shuttle Mission Control engineer and space policy expert\n\n\nClive Neal - Geologist, University of Notre Dame\n\n\nEdward Young - Cosmochemist, geochemist, UCLA\n\n\nMargaret Race - Biologist and research scientist at the SETI Institute\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices