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India’s Moon Rover Has Gone to Sleep
Nap Time After its victorious first round of primary mission goals, India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar rover and lander — the first spacecraft to successfully land on the Moon's previously untouched South...
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India's Moon Lander Just Took Off Again and Landed in a Different Place
Second Landing After safely landing on the lunar surface last month, India's Vikram Moon lander just pulled off its next daring stunt. The lander fired up its engines, causing it to float 15 inches...
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Japanese Moon Mission Carrying Weird Rolling Robot
Moon Ball Drop Japan is hoping to follow up India's successful landing on the surface of the Moon early next year — and helping it along will be a tennis ball-shaped rover that's giving us just a...
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SpaceX Just Simulated a Lunar Landing With Its Rocket Engine
Fire & Ice NASA and SpaceX notched an important milestone for their upcoming crewed lunar mission: test-firing a SpaceX engine from a cold start in order to simulate conditions in the extremely...
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India's Moon Lander Appears to Have Died
Snooze Button Last month, India became only the fourth country in the world to pull off a soft landing on the lunar surface. Afterward, the country's Vikram lander flexed its muscles by releasing a...
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Chinese Scientists Ponder Moon Base Inside Ancient Lunar Lava Tube
Dig Dug Chinese researchers are investigating the feasibility of having astronauts construct a base inside lava tubes under the lunar surface, an exciting prospect that could one day allow astronauts...
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There's Wreckage of an Alien Planet Deep Inside the Earth, Scientists Say
Researchers have long suspected that the Moon was formed after a Mars-sized protoplanet, dubbed Theia, smashed into the primordial Earth some 4.5 billion years ago. The literally Earth-shattering event...
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Man Sending His DNA to the Moon So Aliens Can Clone Him and Put Him in a Zoo
Texas-based space company Celestis has been shooting cremated remains into orbit for many years now. During its first flight back in 1997, the company shot the remains of "Star Trek" creator Gene...
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Private American Moon Mission Launching Monday
Moon Shot NASA has been at the forefront of exploring the Moon since the days of the Apollo missions — but, curiously, hasn't sent a lander back to its surface since Apollo 17 in 1972. But come Monday...
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First US Moon Lander in 50 Years in Serious Trouble After Launch
Update: Things are not looking good for the Peregrine lander. The first US lunar lander to be launched into space in more than half a century is in serious trouble. The lander, dubbed Peregrine One and...
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NASA Reportedly Forced to Push Back Moon Landing After SpaceX Fails to...
Starship Has Sailed NASA's efforts to return humans to the lunar surface are facing some serious delays. As Reuters reports, the space agency's first crewed lunar landing mission in over half a...
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It Was Supposed to Land on the Moon. Instead, It's Dying a Fiery Death
It's been just over 50 years since the US last landed on the Moon. The nation's last mission to the lunar surface, Apollo 17, took place in December 1972, and also marked the last time humans have set...
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Former NASA Director Trashes Upcoming Moon Mission
Strong Words Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin, who served under the Bush administration in the mid 2000s, has told US lawmakers that the space agency's plans to return humans to the Moon's...
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Japanese Moon Lander Dying After Touching Down on Lunar Surface
Touch Down While Japan has technically become the fifth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, following the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and India, its lander...
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NASA Probe Shoots Indian Moon Lander With Laser
Moon Shot NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully bounced a laser off of India's Vikram lander, which successfully touched down on the Moon's surface in August. The LRO's laser...
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Japan Trying to Bring Dead Moon Lander Back to Life
Bring Me to Life Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lander had to be shut down just three hours after touching down on the lunar surface last week. The lander, which technically...
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Photo Shows Japanese Moon Lander Is Upside Down on Lunar Surface
Awkward Landing In an extremely unfortunate twist, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) appears to have landed on its nose, meaning it's now upside down on the lunar surface. An image...
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NASA Curious Whether Astronauts Will See Strange Flashes of Light on the Moon
Moon Flash During NASA's Apollo 17 mission just over half a century ago, astronauts saw strange flashes of light while orbiting the Moon. "Hey, I just saw a flash on the lunar surface!" astronaut...
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The Moon Is Shrinking and Crumbling, Scientists Say
Powerful moonquakes recorded by Apollo seismometers over half a century ago have been linked to fault lines and landslides near the Moon's south pole. The findings, as detailed in a new paper published...
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Japanese Moon Lander Springs Back to Life
Lunar Resurrection Japan's Moon lander has officially been resurrected after landing at an extremely awkward angle on the lunar surface earlier this month. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's...
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