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NASA’s Lunar Lander Explodes Mid-Air During Apollo 11 Training
This May 6th, 1968, footage from NASA shows a training vehicle used by Apollo 11 astronauts as they prepared to land the ...
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Here's what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander - MSN
The lunar lander during the Apollo missions stood 22 feet (7 meters) tall with its landing legs deployed. The next time ...
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It’s not a fake moon landing, it’s training for the real thing
NASA engineers are recreating the challenging lighting conditions of the Moon’s South Pole to prepare astronauts for the ...
In second straight failure, Japanese probe makes mission-ending "hard" landing on the moon
A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini ...
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Moon dust is less toxic than urban air pollution, scientists discover
Smith found that while the irregular shape and roughness of the lunar dust still irritates the lungs, its effects are ...
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Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole - Chicago Tribune
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday.
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Lunar lander to launch from Florida on NASA mission: How to watch - USA TODAY
The Athena lander will get off the ground as early as Wednesday night from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of the space agency's Apollo moon mission launches.
NASA spacecraft around the moon photographs the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar ...