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Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ keeps baffling experts by waking up. It has shared images from its latest lunar ‘day’
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NASA’s Artemis 3 astronauts will put a moonquake detector on lunar surface
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The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) is one of the first three potential payloads NASA selected for the Artemis 3 mission, which ...
3 companies win NASA contracts to develop Artemis moon rover designs
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Along with funding the commercial development of new rockets, Artemis moon landers and new spacesuits, NASA is pressing ahead with plans to ...
Intuitive Machines’ historic private moon moon mission comes to an end
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The first successful private moon-landing mission is officially over. On Feb. 22, Intuitive Machines‘ Odysseus spacecraft, affectionately known as Odie, touched down ...
China launches satellite to support future moon missions (video)
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China launched a satellite toward the moon this week to help support the country’s lunar ambitions. On Tuesday (March 19), a Long ...
NASA’s ice-hunting VIPER moon rover getting ready to slither to the launch pad
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NASA’s next moon rover is one step closer to starting its lunar mission. The rolling robot, known as VIPER (“Volatiles Investigating Polar ...
First US moon lander in half a century stops working a week after tipping over at touchdown
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since the Apollo astronauts fell silent Thursday, a ...
Intuitive Machines lands on moon in nail-biting descent of private Odysseus lander, a 1st for US since 1972
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After a nail-biting descent and a tense silence from the lunar surface, the United States is back on the moon. Odysseus, a ...
US company makes historic Moon landing
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Artwork: It took a few minutes to establish communications with the lander An American company has made history by becoming the first ...
Why it’s so difficult to land on the moon, even five decades after Apollo
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