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After Peregrine failed to land on the moon, Astrobotic still plans to launch another lunar lander in November
Astrobotic's Peregrine didn't make it to the moon, but the company still plans to partner with NASA…
Jenny McGrath
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NASA picks Astrobotic to land water-hunting rover on Moon
Washington, June 12 (IANS) NASA has awarded Pittsburgh-based space robotics startup Astrobotic $199…
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NASA just picked commercial aerospace company Astrobotic to land the first US moon rover in 48 years — a robot that will hunt for ice
NASA's new lunar rover will hunt for water ice on the moon's unexplored south pole. A nearly $200 m…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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NASA is scrapping a moon rover that it spent $450 million to build
NASA is cutting its losses and scrapping its moon rover mission, after it proved to be exceedingly …
Aditi Bharade
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The doomed US moon lander is on a collision course with Earth and will be destroyed to protect other satellites
Astrobotic's lander set off last week with hope of becoming the first US spacecraft to make it to t…
Marianne Guenot
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Former SpaceX engineers explain how the US's first moon landing mission in decades may have gone wrong and how to prevent similar anomalies
Ex-SpaceX employees, now with Sift, explain Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander leak and how robust…
Jenny McGrath
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Space photos from 5 recent moon-landing missions show how tiny engineering errors can cause big problems, like crashing or landing sideways
Moon landings are so complex that even the tiniest mistakes have caused missions to crash or burn. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA just scored a badly needed win: The best potential evidence of alien life yet
The Perseverance rover found potential evidence of life on Mars. Three features make the rock promi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The first US moon lander in more than 50 years launched with human remains on board, paving the way for space burials
A US mission hasn't landed on the moon since the Apollo in 1972. Peregrine may become the first in…
Marianne Guenot
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The dogecoin community is planning to launch a physical token to the moon in December
Space robotics company Astrobotic is sending a cargo to the moon that will include a physical dogec…
Aruni Soni
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NASA is back on the moon with the first commercial lunar landing ever
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is the first US spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 …
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-…
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NASA is asking for help to retrieve Mars samples that could be the first evidence of alien life
NASA's Perseverance rover is collecting Mars rock and soil that could contain hints of ancient alie…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Yes, the moon is shrinking but that's not the disturbing news scientists discovered that could threaten future NASA missions
A shrinking lunar crust causes moonquakes and could lead to dangerous landslides that may harm futu…
Jenny McGrath
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Watch the video of Intuitive Machines and NASA landing on the moon and hitting a snag, with $118 million on the line
Intuitive Machine's Odysseus lander touched down on the moon on Thursday. NASA's livestream of miss…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Elon Musk is sending prices of altcoins ‘to the moon’ but Bitcoin may be the first to actually land on the moon — literally
‘Going to the moon’ is the cryptocurrency jackpot. It’s when the price of a cryptocurrency skyrocke…
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SpaceX wins $152 million NASA contract to launch a series of weather satellites for an ambitious environmental mission
SpaceX's weather-satellite launch will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Ear…
Zahra Tayeb
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The moon is open for business, and entrepreneurs are racing to make billions
As NASA aims to stay on the moon, private firms are racing to be the first to go where no company h…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA administrator: 'The US is returning to the surface of the moon, and we're doing it sooner than you think!'
In many ways, CLPS resembles NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which uses billions of dollars to coax…
Dave Mosher
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NASA will pay private companies up to $2.6 billion to get the US back to the moon for the first time in nearly 50 years
One of the nine companies NASA named, Astrobotic, formed in 2007 during the Google Lunar X Prize. T…
Dave Mosher
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NASA just gave $44 million to 6 private companies - including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin - to develop 'tipping point' space technologies
The biggest winner of the competition was United Launch Alliance, formed by Boeing and Lockheed Mar…