Plans detailed for first U.S. mission to land on moon since Apollo

SEATTLE - The first American spacecraft expected to land on the moon in nearly 50 years will be a robotic moon lander built by closely held Astrobotic Technology Inc and launched in two years by United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket, the companies told Reuters on Monday.

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic picked Vulcan, being developed by a joint venture of Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Corp, to launch its Peregrine lander from Florida’s Cape Canaveral in summer 2021. “Our first flight on Vulcan is also the first big step in going back to the moon,” United Launch Alliance Chief Executive Tory Bruno told Reuters ahead of the announcement.

NASA is pushing to outsource the design, development and operations for some space activities to private companies under a strategy championed by Trump-appointed administrator Jim Bridenstine. He wants NASA to be one customer of many in the low-Earth and lunar marketplaces to pave the way for deeper space exploration.

Other countries are also focused on the moon. A Chinese space probe successfully touched down on the far side of the moon in January, though Israel’s unmanned robotic lander Beresheet crashed on its final descent in April. India’s Chandrayaan-2 rover, launched in July, was on its way to the moon’s south pole, unexplored by any other nation.

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We could be building sea walls and new levees and larger storm drains to handle bigger flash floods. But no, let’s go to the moon so we have someplace to go when were don’t destroying the planet we actually live on. Pfft!

Feed starving people in the United States First.

Until RacistPresident realDonaldTrump calls a trade war with the moon!

Send Trump to the moon please.

If Trump finds out the moon's not made of cheese, he'll call the whole thing off.

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egea_blog Les américains ont besoin de reprendre la main sur des sujets aussi critiques et faire oublier que leur prédominance technologique est sérieusement menacé : la 5g n’est que la partie émergée de l’iceberg et si rien n’est fait cela aura des conséquences stratégiques majeures ...

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