Jack Burns has spent 40 years advocating for radio astronomy from the moon's far side. LuSEE-Night, a radio telescope launching in early 2026 aboard SpaceX and Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 2, will land on the lunar far side to detect faint signals from the cosmic dark ages—a period 200-400 million years after the big bang. The
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