moonlanding
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Japanese Company Says Its Lander Unexpectedly Accelerated Before Crashing on the Moon
Following Tuesday’s failed attempt to land on the surface of the Moon, Japan’s ispace said its lunar lander may have unexpectedly accelerated on its way down before crashing on the lunar surface.
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NASA Hatches New Plan for Troubled Water-Hunting Lunar Probe
Lunar Flashlight’s journey to discover water ice on the Moon hasn’t been easy. NASA had to re-evaluate its original orbital plan on account of the probe encountering thruster performance issues and is now planning to move it to a high Earth orbit, from where the probe will only be able to scan the Moon once…
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SpaceX Awarded $US1.15 ($2) Billion Contract to Build NASA’s Second Lunar Lander
NASA recently added a new Moon landing to its Artemis plans and it needs a specialised human landing system to carry it out. To virtually no one’s surprise, NASA chose SpaceX to develop this second lunar lander.
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Buzz Aldrin Memorabilia Goes Up for Auction and Sells for Over $AU11 Million
Have you ever been to a garage sale where someone was selling sports trophies? Kinda tacky, right? Well, it’s not so much the same when an ex-astronaut does it, especially when it’s one of the original moon landing astronaut’s Presidential Medal of Freedom.