A historic mission to the Moon is approaching its crescendo, with the Israeli-built Beresheet lander today entering orbit around our largest satellite and preparing to close in on its surface.
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The China National Space Administration made history today by successfully deploying its Chang'e-4 probe on the far side of the moon, a feat that has never been achieved before.
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Kurt Hughes originally trained as an architect but spent the last 35 years designing yachts. This experience creating comfortable living quarters in relatively small and awkward spaces clearly served him well for his passion project: a unique off-grid micro-house that's dubbed the Lunar Lander.
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The deadline for the Google Lunar XPrize has again been pushed back, this time to March 31, 2018. After over 10 years and multiple deadline extensions, it is hoped that this is the final delay for what has been an ambitious competition to get the first privately funded spacecraft onto the Moon.
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When the unmanned Surveyor I probe landed in the Oceanus Procellarum in 1966, it was more than the first US soft landing on the Moon, it was a leap into the unknown.
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NASA has announced the selection of three US companies to develop a lunar lander to deliver payloads to the Moon’s surface – Astrobotic Technology, Masten Space Systems, and Moon Express.
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NASA has announced its Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown (Lunar CATALYST) initiative, which aims at kickstarting private development of commercial lunar transports through partnerships with the space agency.
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China's Chang'e-3 lunar lander, together with the Yu Tu (Jade Rabbit) lunar rover, successfully landed on the Moon's surface at 13:11 UT Saturday night. The event marks the first time that China has sent a spacecraft to soft land on the Moon's surface.
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Moon Express has revealed the design of its MX-1 entry for the Google Lunar X Prize competition. Not a one-trick pony, the MX-1 is intended as the first of a series of robotic spacecraft that can carry out a multitude of tasks in Earth orbit as well as in deep space.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed a feasibility study on a new lunar lander for the Golden Spike Company.
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