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America's First Moon Mission in 50 Years Exploded and No One Was There to See It
America's First Moon Mission in 50 Years Exploded and No One Was There to See It

19 Jan 2024, 11:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The NASA-Astrobotic Moon mission ended this week with the Peregrine landing burning up in the sky over the South Pacific Ocean

 
America Botches First Lunar Lander Mission in Decades, Peregrine Will Not Reach the Moon
America Botches First Lunar Lander Mission in Decades, Peregrine Will Not Reach the Moon

9 Jan 2024, 09:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Peregrine lunar lander mission has failed, after a fuel leak prevented the spacecraft from pointing itself at the Sun.

 
America's First Moon Lander Since Apollo Launches to Study Geological Enigma in the Sky
America's First Moon Lander Since Apollo Launches to Study Geological Enigma in the Sky

8 Jan 2024, 08:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA, United Launch Alliance, and Astrobotic launch the first Moon lander in five decades, the Peregrine. It will land on the Moon at the end of February

 
Water-Hunting Moon Rover Shows It Can Safely Exit a Lander and Start Its 100-Day Mission
Water-Hunting Moon Rover Shows It Can Safely Exit a Lander and Start Its 100-Day Mission

5 Jul 2023, 07:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA completes lander egress tests of the VIPER Moon rover, moving one step closer to the launch of a gear that'll help us find water up there

 
A Deep Dive Into VIPER, the Adorable NASA Moon Rover That Will Scout for Artemis Missions
A Deep Dive Into VIPER, the Adorable NASA Moon Rover That Will Scout for Artemis Missions

16 Feb 2023, 19:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Should it survive, the VIPER rover will join the Chinese Yutu-2 rover as the only two active rovers on the lunar surface.

 
Nichelle Nichols’ Ashes Blasted Into Space, So Lt. Uhura Will Always Be Among the Stars
Nichelle Nichols’ Ashes Blasted Into Space, So Lt. Uhura Will Always Be Among the Stars

26 Aug 2022, 04:46 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The son of the late Star Trek actress agrees to donate part of her ashes for Celestis’ “graveyard orbit” around sun dedicated to Star Trek legends

 
Wireless Chargers May Be Up and Running on the Moon Soon, Cables Be Damned
Wireless Chargers May Be Up and Running on the Moon Soon, Cables Be Damned

17 Jun 2022, 11:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A company called Astrobotic is working on a wireless charging system meant to keep hardware up and running during the long lunar nights

 
Astrobotic Takes the Veil Off Nearly Complete Peregrine Lunar Lander
Astrobotic Takes the Veil Off Nearly Complete Peregrine Lunar Lander

21 Apr 2022, 02:40 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Once completed, Peregrine is set to be the first U.S. lunar lander to land on the lunar surface since the Apollo missions

 
Astrobotic to Show Lunar Landers and Rovers at Moonshot Museum in Pittsburg
Astrobotic to Show Lunar Landers and Rovers at Moonshot Museum in Pittsburg

8 May 2021, 10:20 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Pittsburg-based space robotics company Astrobotic announced its new Moonshot Museum. Visitors will have the chance to plunge into the the universe's mysteries.

 
SpaceX Falcon Heavy to Launch Mission to the Moon in 2023
SpaceX Falcon Heavy to Launch Mission to the Moon in 2023

14 Apr 2021, 09:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Astrobotic says it selected SpaceX and the Falcon Heavy rocket for the launch of the Griffin lander carrying the NASA VIPER rover to the Moon in 2023

 
Viper Rover to Reach Moon on Astrobotic Spaceship, Ticket Costs $199 Million
Viper Rover to Reach Moon on Astrobotic Spaceship, Ticket Costs $199 Million

12 Jun 2020, 12:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA said on Friday the company tasked with taking the water-hunting rover called Viper to the Moon is Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic.

 
NASA to Fund Astrobotic CubeRover for Lunar Exploration
NASA to Fund Astrobotic CubeRover for Lunar Exploration

1 Apr 2018, 08:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / New private rover contract handed to Astrobotic for the development of a lunar machine capable of small-scale science and exploration.