Learning lessons from the Moon ⏲️ 6 Minute English

Summer 2023 saw two missions to the Moon. Why are scientists so keen to get there? Find out with Georgie and Neil.👇👇👇

❓❓❓ This week's question: Who was the third astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission, after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
a) Yuri Gargarin
b) Michael Collins
c) Alan Shepard

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Vocabulary:
✔️inert - not moving; unable to move
✔️crater - very large hole in the ground, which has been caused by something hitting it or by an explosion; the round hole at the top of a volcano
✔️pockmarked - marked by small holes and scars
✔️a big deal - important or significant
✔️trace (something back) - discover the causes of something by investigating how it developed
✔️a smoking gun - indisputable incriminating evidence; conclusive proof of something

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