The Moon: As above, so below.

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The Sleeping Gypsy, Henri Rousseau, 1897, oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

THE MOON. As above, so below.

Cold War-style competition enters a new lunar cycle.

Russia launched its first lunar mission in 47 years from Vostochny, in the far east, on Friday. On Tuesday, NASA’s administrator said China might occupy the Moon’s south pole “like the S…