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First US Lunar Lander in More Than 50 Years Rockets Toward Moon With Commercial Deliveries
Epoch Times ^ | 1/8/2024 | Staff

Posted on 01/08/2024 6:32:19 AM PST by Red Badger

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed toward the moon Monday, launching private companies on a space race to make deliveries for NASA and other customers.

Astrobotic Technology’s lander caught a ride on a brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan. The Vulcan streaked through the Florida predawn sky, putting the spacecraft on a roundabout route to the moon that should culminate with an attempted landing on Feb. 23.

“So, so, so excited. We are on our way to the moon!” Astrobotic chief executive John Thornton said.

The Pittsburgh company aims to be the first private business to successfully land on the moon, something only four countries have accomplished. But a Houston company also has a lander ready to fly, and could beat it to the lunar surface, taking a more direct path.

“First to launch. First to land is TBD,” to be determined, Mr. Thornton noted.

NASA gave the two companies millions to build and fly their own lunar landers. The space agency wants the privately owned landers to scope out the place before astronauts arrive while delivering NASA tech and science experiments as well as odds and ends for other customers. Astrobotic’s contract for the Peregrine lander: $108 million.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: moon; nasa; spaceexploration; themoon
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To: cgbg

You don’t believe the manned moon landings ever happened?

On what basis?


41 posted on 01/08/2024 7:53:25 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: PIF
Houston's Intuitive Machines, inc.
42 posted on 01/08/2024 7:53:59 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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To: woodbutcher1963
You can always go to ewetewb, for a start.
43 posted on 01/08/2024 7:53:59 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger
"First US Lunar Lander in More Than 50 Years Rockets Toward Moon With Commercial Deliveries"


44 posted on 01/08/2024 7:57:01 AM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: woodbutcher1963

The landings were not fake. The ‘filming’ of the landings was. The communication between the President and the Lunar Lander crew was faked (i.e. edited due to gaps between sending and receiving messages.)


45 posted on 01/08/2024 7:57:49 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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To: woodbutcher1963
My wife is driving me crazy with these fake moon landing conspiracy videos.

Your wife is correct. We couldn’t get a man through the Van Allen radiation belts so we faked it. Even at 350 miles up our astronauts get radiation damage. Additionally, once outside the radiation belts which actually protect the earth from cosmic radiation, our astronauts are subject to cosmic radiation from the sun.
46 posted on 01/08/2024 7:59:17 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Red Badger
the ‘deliveries’ are human ashes

Did the Navajos get their payoff, then?

47 posted on 01/08/2024 7:59:46 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Must have.................


48 posted on 01/08/2024 8:00:19 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

So we faked the Space Shuttle missions too?


49 posted on 01/08/2024 8:02:25 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: maddog55
Just got an email from Astrobotic:

"After successfully separating from United Launce Alliance’s Vulcan rocket, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander began receiving telemetry via the NASA Deep Space Network. Astrobotic-built avionics systems, including the primary command and data handling unit, as well as the thermal, propulsion, and power controllers, all powered on and performed as expected. After successful propulsion systems activation, Peregrine entered a safe operational state. Unfortunately, an anomaly then occurred, which prevented Astrobotic from achieving a stable sun-pointing orientation. The team is responding in real time as the situation unfolds and will be providing updates as more data is obtained and analyzed."

Hopefully they will get this corrected, before attempted landing.

BTW my DNA is on board, as part of LifeShip's "seed bank".

50 posted on 01/08/2024 8:03:59 AM PST by SC DOC (A)
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To: Red Badger

Really sad that this thread is getting derailed by moon landing conspiracy garbage. Do people not understand that this is the first flight of Vulcan, the successor to Atlas V? Do they not understand that Vulcan is 100% American content and ends our reliance on the Russian RD-180? Yes, the launch is months late, but it went off perfectly AND at night, to boot!


51 posted on 01/08/2024 8:05:01 AM PST by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Campion

Of course it went off at night, they are going to the Moon!.............😜


52 posted on 01/08/2024 8:07:26 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Campion

None of that matters.

Only anti vax and anti debt issues matter to the orthodox here.


53 posted on 01/08/2024 8:08:50 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Hamasci de is required in totalhe)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
We couldn’t get a man through the Van Allen radiation belts

Quit lying.

54 posted on 01/08/2024 8:09:19 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Campion

Correct. This is an important step in the USA’s current space launch capabilities.


55 posted on 01/08/2024 8:11:25 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: JSM_Liberty

“Hopefully there will be live video from the lander.”

They’ll just say the video is fake, because it’s either a) too high quality or b) too low quality.


56 posted on 01/08/2024 8:11:29 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Army Air Corps

For some reason, I find it mildly amusing that the first flight of Bezos’ engines is on somebody else’s rocket. Will New Glenn EVER get off the ground?


57 posted on 01/08/2024 8:14:02 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: dfwgator

No. Shuttle missions have gone no further than 350 miles. Below the Van Allen Radiation Belts


58 posted on 01/08/2024 8:15:55 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: NorthMountain

New Glenn seems to be in a state of perpetual development.


59 posted on 01/08/2024 8:20:17 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The highest shuttle apogee was 386 miles when it deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.


60 posted on 01/08/2024 8:23:02 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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