Sunday, 7 January 2024 India's Astrobotic's Peregrine lander, the second private mission to the moon, will lift off on Monday with over 80,000 messages from kids worldwide and a piece of Mount Everest. The mission director, Sharad Bhaskaran, has early India connections. The touchdown is scheduled for February 23 on the moon's Bay of Stickiness. This will be the first US lunar landing since Apollo 17, and it launches under Nasa's Commercial Lunar Payload Services Initiative with the help of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket.
The Peregrine 1 mission will be the first ever by a private company and the first launch to the moon by Americans in more than five decades. The U.S. spacecraft, seeking to become the first American mission in 51 years to make a soft landing on the moon, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is...
Top US and Indian officials, including Ambassador Kwatra and US Deputy Secretary Campbell, visited NASA's Johnson Space Center to bolster space cooperation. They.. IndiaTimes
Jared Isaacman, billionaire and SpaceX collaborator, is nominated by Trump to lead NASA. Known for pioneering private space missions, Isaacman aims to bolster U.S. space dominance with ambitious lunar and Martian goals.
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