What's the best reason to observe the 2012 Transit of Venus? It could be history. Today's story from Science@NASA recounts one explorer's role in "the Apollo program of the 18th Century."
FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/02jun_jamescook/
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