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A team of scientists has finished analysing rocks collected by the Chinese lunar rover Yutu in 2013 — the first geologic sampling effort to hit the Moon in forty years. The regolith is unlike any we’ve seen before, and it suggests that the Moon’s history is far more complex than…
What I want right this moment is a sleek spacesuit and $US89,000 so that I can order myself this custom Lunar Lander replica and pretend to be an adventurous spacegirl. No nasty astronaut ice cream for me though, thanks.
John Carmack’s Armadillo Aerospace has won the $US350,000 Level One X-Prize Lunar Lander Challenge. As this video shows, their spaceship blasted off the designated area, got up to 150 feet, and then hovered for 90 seconds at that altitude to land with absolute precision on a pad 150 feet away….
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