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On the Moon s far side, shielded from Earth s radio cacophony, Americans are building a radio-astronomy observatory. Russians sift the dust of a lunar sea for helium-3 to run future fusion reactors. Commercial robots, remotely operated from Earth, roamthe Moon s near side in a hunt for mineral wealth. Why chase distant asteroids for precious metals? Onetime asteroids must lie close beneath the much-bombarded lunar surface. Then a prospecting robot encounters a desiccated, spacesuited figure. An alien figure …