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Experimental technology enabled a historic moon landing

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SpaceX launches private ‘Odysseus’ lander on pioneering moon mission (video)

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A potentially history-making private moon mission is underway. Odysseus, a robotic lunar lander built by the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, ...

‘Odie’ lunar mission takes off, aiming for historic US moon landing

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Just one month after failed mission, a second US lunar lander is ready to make an attempt

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Flight controllers contact crippled Japanese moon lander

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Japanese flight controllers re-established contact with the robotic SLIM lunar lander Saturday, eight days after the spacecraft tipped over and ...

Japan’s SLIM probe regains power more than a week after moon landing

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By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s SLIM spacecraft has regained power, its space agency said on Monday, more than ...

Peregrine lunar lander mission ends in fiery reentry over Pacific Ocean

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Private Peregrine moon lander powers up lunar payloads despite propulsion anomaly

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All may not be lost for Astrobotic’s Peregrine moon lander. Soon after launching on the first-ever flight of United Launch ...

New Vulcan rocket sends privately-built Moon lander to space

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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A robotic lander built by a private company was bound for the moon on Monday ...

First US moon landing mission in decades launches with NASA science, humans remains on board

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