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NASA's Peregrine lander, launched on ULA's Vulcan rocket, will study the Moon's surface and environment, aiding in future human exploration. It's scheduled to land on February 23 for a 10-day mission. Carrying NASA scientific instruments as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative

Just hours after launching from Florida toward deep space early Monday morning, the first US lunar lander to take off in five decades is in jeopardy.

By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN

(CNN) — Astrobotic Technology, the company that developed the first lunar lander to launch from the United States in five decades, said it is abandoning an<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/peregrine-mission-abandons-moon-landing-attempt-after-suffering-critical-fuel-loss/">Read More</a>

The Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One lunar lander has fewer than 40 hours before its thrusters run out of fuel and it tumbles through space, Astrobotic said.

A fuel leak derailed the first attempt in more than 50 years to land a US spacecraft on the Moon.

A brand new U.S. rocket is on the way to the Cape Canaveral, Fla., launch pad, and for the first time in more than 50 years, an American spacecraft will

NASA has paid a start-up just $108m (£85m) for five scientific instruments to be carried to the moon - a fraction of the cost of launching its own mission.

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A robotic lander built by a private company was bound for the moon on Monday in an attempt to make the first U.S.

Private joint-venture mission due to reach moon by end of February, the first US soft landing in half a century