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Cape Canaveral (AFP) Jan 5, 2024 - Final preparations were underway Friday for the launch of the first American spacecraft to attempt a lunar landing in more than 50 years, under a new partnership between NASA and private industry.
Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander is scheduled to launch on January 8 atop United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur rocket. The mission is the first of those contracted under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
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.
NASA is set to embark on a new era of commercial missions to the Moon, as it bets on an untested private lunar lander to make the trip. The mission, known
A new era of commercial missions to the moon is due to lift off on Monday as NASA gambles on a ride on an untested private lunar lander - alongside hu...