Commercial US spaceship hours from attempted Moon landing
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For the first time since the Apollo era, an American spaceship has landed on the Moon: an uncrewed commercial robot, funded by NASA to pave the way for US astronauts to return to Earth's cosmic neighbor later this decade."Today for the first time in more than a half century, the US has returned to the Moon," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said in a video.
More than 50 years after humans first began soft-landing spacecraft on the moon, it remains a treacherous feat with more than half of missions failing. Here’s why.
By Kristin Fisher and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands of miles beyond Earth, a phone booth-size spacecraft is en route to take on