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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is bidding on NASA's lucrative moon contract again after it lost to SpaceX last year
Last year, Blue Origin sued NASA, calling its decision to choose SpaceX as the sole winner of the c…
Grace Kay
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Photos show NASA rolling its new moon mega-rocket to the launchpad for its first lunar flight
NASA's Space Launch System is built to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972.…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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Indian-origin robotics engineer to head NASA's new Moon to Mars office
Indian-origin software and robotics engineer, Amit Kshatriya has been appointed as first head of NA…
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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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Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch its Starship mega-rocket to orbit for the first time this year
SpaceX's Starship rocket is stacked atop its 23-story Super Heavy booster at the company's Boca Chi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is sending a water-hunting lunar rover to a shadowy crater on the moon's south pole
NASA's VIPER rover will descend into permanently shadowed craters on the moon's south pole, where t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Russia is racing to beat the US, India, and China to the south pole of the moon in its first lunar mission since the 70s
Russia hasn't launched a lunar mission since 1976. It hopes to be the first to carry out a soft lan…
Marianne Guenot
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India's moon lander is the first to study the lunar south pole region up close. Here are 5 scientific discoveries it has already made.
India's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover have already discovered evidence of moonquakes and the pres…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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How India landed on the moon and flew to Mars at a fraction of the cost of NASA and Russia missions
India reached the moon's south polar region before anyone else, on a budget, by starting small and …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Maiya F…
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NASA spent billions on its SLS mega-rocket to take humans to the moon. It finally admitted it is 'unaffordable.'
When built, the Space Launch System will be the most powerful rocket ever created by NASA. But cost…
Marianne Guenot
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Blue Origin has a new publicity strategy: Posting salty graphics that trash competitors like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic
NASA snubbed Blue Origin's lunar lander in favor of SpaceX's Starship to return astronauts to the m…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is beefing with Elon Musk's SpaceX again, claiming that Starship is too complex to safely land astronauts on the moon
Blue Origin said that for SpaceX's Starship to land on the moon, it would need to perform a range o…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Why are SpaceX and Blue Origin fighting over NASA's lunar lander contract?
SpaceX won NASA's contract to return astronauts to the moon. Here's why Blue Origin is mad about it.
Swapna Krishna
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A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars snapped a photo of the Perseverance rover in the crater below
NASA's satellite captured a photo of Perseverance exploring some of the oldest and perhaps most acc…
Lily Katzman
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin slams NASA for its 'unfair' decision to award Elon Musk's SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract
Blue Origin filed a protest against NASA's lunar-lander contract with SpaceX, saying NASA "moved th…
Kate Duffy
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Japanese company ispace fears its probe crashed into the moon, failing to snag the first private lunar landing
The ispace mission was carrying a rover for the UAE and a robot for Japan's space agency. No privat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA spacecraft captures unusual circles of sand dunes on Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft has captured unusual circles of sand dunes on t…
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Back to the Moon: Space lawyer & planetary scientist tells us what it takes to share the benefits of lunar exploration
NASA is planning to put US astronauts back on the surface of the Moon by the end of 2024. This miss…
PTI
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NASA discovered a new crater on the moon as wide as a 3-story building, and it's probably Russia's Luna-25 gravesite
It was Russia's first mission to the moon in decades. Had Luna-25 successfully landed, it would've …
Sonam Sheth
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NASA's plan to put humans back on the Moon will cost $28 billion
NASA has shared an update on its Artemis programme, including the latest plans to land the first wo…