The European Space Agency wants the moon to have its own time zone for safer missions. 

Astrophysicist at ANU, Dr Brad Tucker told Deborah Knight a single time zone would make it easier and safer for organisations to coordinate various missions.

Hypothetically, if Australia is designing a rover to go on the moon for the U.S. mission, American astronauts would operate at a different time and the rover may not be up or working at the same time.

“It causes trouble,” Dr Tucker said.

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