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“It’s not something you see every day on a sheep farm,” a farmer said of the pieces of debris that wound up in rural Australia. They are thought to be from a SpaceX spacecraft.
The Danuri mission, after a long and fuel-efficient journey, will help to study the moon’s magnetic field and some of its coldest and darkest places.
Relativity Space, which could launch its first rocket soon, and Impulse Space, founded by a SpaceX veteran, optimistically say that together they can reach the red planet a few years from now.
The small spacecraft will be the first to head to the moon in a year when other planned missions have yet to get off the launchpad.
NASA has grandiose plans for sending astronauts back to the moon. Those start with a microwave-size private spacecraft scheduled to launch on Monday.