The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon
So many interesting things come out of NIAC funding
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There is no permanent "dark side" of the moon, but the "far side" of the moon (always faces away from Earth) is precisely the location proposed in the article.
Why not build them at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point?