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Private Lunar Lander Hits Unexpected Issues During White-Knuckles Descent
Update: The lander has successfully touched down on the lunar surface. Final Countdown Things were looking promising as Intuitive Machines' NASA-sponsored lunar lander Odysseus prepared for its final...
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The Private Moon Lander Has Safely Touched Down on the Moon
Land Ho! Intuitive Machines' NASA-funded lunar lander, Odysseus, hit some issues during its final approach to the lunar surface: when the sensors it intended to use during its final approach failed,...
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China Announces Name of Spacecraft Landing Crew on Moon
Dream Vessel China's space agency is racing towards sending astronauts to the lunar surface — ambitious plans that are now starting to take shape. In a new announcement, the China Manned Space Agency...
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NASA’s New Moon Lander Is Turning Into a Disaster
Lunar Blues NASA's new Moon lander may have touched down in one piece, but the story keeps getting more embarrassing and underwhelming for the space agency. Intuitive Machines, the company that built...
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New Photos Show Catastrophic Damage to NASA's Moon Lander
Lunar Carnage NASA's historic return to the lunar surface was marred by a series of obstacles, both physical and software-related. The Odysseus lander, built and operated by Houston-based space company...
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Scientists Struggle to Explain Why Their Tall, Top-Heavy Moon Lander Fell Over
Moon Tipper Over the last two months, two separate Moon landers have successfully survived the harrowing journey down to the lunar surface — but neither stuck the landing, each embarrassingly falling...
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US Military Commander Worries China Could Launch Attack From Moon
Loony Landing As the lunar space race heats up, the United States is growing increasingly concerned about its chief adversary using the Moon to launch attacks. As the military website Defense One...
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NASA's Privately-Launched Moon Lander Permanently Dead After Failing to Wake Up
Rest in Peace It's official, folks: the privately-launched Moon lander is dead. Intuitive Machines, the company that launched the "Odysseus" lander with funding from NASA, has announced in a series of...
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Against All Odds, Japan’s Toppled Moon Lander Is Still Alive
Moon Miracle In the wake of NASA's failed private Moon lander debacle, Japan's attempt is still alive and kicking. In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...
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NASA's First Artemis Moon Astronauts Will Bring Small Greenhouse to Lunar...
Astronaut Farmers The first astronauts to walk the surface of the Moon in almost half a century will be bringing with them a mini-greenhouse to study how crops adapt to the harsh surrounding...
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Biden Directs NASA to Figure Out What Time It Is on the Moon
Half Past Moon When an astronaut walks the surface of the Moon, what time should their wristwatch read? It's a pertinent question to the United States' renewed efforts to establish a permanent presence...
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NASA Spots Object Speeding Around the Moon
Spider-Man Pointing NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a bizarre sliver of an object speeding above the lunar surface last month. And as it turns out, we're not looking at a UFO — or, uh,...
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The Solar Eclipse Looks Absolutely Wild From Space
Looming Shadow Today's stunning total solar eclipse has drawn millions of people outside to gaze at the sky and witness a truly extraordinary and exceedingly rare event. And while the views from the...
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Here's What NASA's Rovers See During an Eclipse on Mars
Celestial Blip Earth isn't the only place in our solar system where humans have observed a solar eclipse. Because NASA has the Perseverance rover parked on the surface of the Red Planet, the...
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Congresswoman Makes Strange Claims About the Earth's Moon
Lunar Blunder In an embarrassing slipup, representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) told a high school audience on Monday that the Moon was a "planet" that's — yes, really — "made up of mostly gases." In...
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NASA Quietly Training Robot Dog to Navigate Landscape of the Moon
Moon Walk NASA is teaching a robot dog how to walk on the Moon. With little fanfare, a multi-disciplinary team of researchers — including engineers, planetary scientists, and cognitive scientists — let...
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The Moon Turned Itself Inside Out, Scientists Confirm
Small Bang Scientists seem to have figured out why the Moon is made up of such weird and heavy rocks: way back in the day, it turned itself inside out. For decades now, scientists have pretty much...
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Head of NASA Says China Is Hiding Military Experiments in Space
Full Nelson NASA's administrator is once again making outrageous claims about China's space capabilities — and in the process, fueling the off-world rivalry between the two. "We believe that a lot of...
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Scientists Say Something Seems to Have Broken Off the Moon at This Crater
A team of astronomers believes the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, was once part of the Moon. More specifically, a research team led by Tsinghua...
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Japan's Moon Lander Keeps Waking Up After It Was Supposed to Die
I'm Still Alive Japan's first Moon lander refuses to die. The spacecraft — dubbed Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) — has sent back yet another image three months after it landed upside down...
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