First US Lunar Lander in More Than 50 Years Rockets Toward Moon With Commercial Deliveries

Epoch Times ^ | 1/8/2024 | Staff

[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.

[NorthMountain]

Your dishonest and ignorant articles haven’t improved since the last time I looked at them ...

Quit promoting lies.

[cgbg]

Listen to what modern astronauts have to say.

They know they are not going to “dodge” the Van Allen belts.

Lol.

When your life is on the line the propaganda and myths becomes irrelevant—you have to get it right.

[NorthMountain]

You keep regurgitating that stuff ... you even use the (correct) term “belt” ... but you can’t admit the implications of that term. Admitting them would destroy your mythos.

[Political Junkie Too]

I saw a DHL sticker on the lunar lander

-PJ

[markman46]

if faked just where in the HELL did all the moon rocks come from and studied by not just NASA but all over the world.

[markman46]

please just stop with the fake BS..

[markman46]

BTW my DNA is on board, as part of LifeShip’s “seed bank”

not on the lander, but on the centur going into a heliocentric orbit

[cgbg]

https://www.aulis.com/softrocks.htm

Hard “lunar” rocks can be found on Antarctica.

[markman46]

just STOP with you ignorant BS
makes you look like a fool

[cgbg]

I did not write the article.

If you want to call someone a “fool” at least identify those writers by name—and make sure to note their credentials.

Lol.

[Jan_Sobieski]

What are you talking about?

[TheDon]

Something like this I think

[SC DOC]

It was on the Peregrine lander. LifeShip partnered with Arch Mission for a payload on the lander. After detaching the Lander, Centaur proceeded to heliocentric orbit with the Celestis payload (called Enterprise) carrying the ashes and DNA from a number of people associated with the original Star Trek.

It is now a moot point, as the lander will unlikely be landing on the moon, but will likely go into permanent lunar orbit. Link

The Navajos probably put a curse on the mission.

[markman46]

that was the info i got also the enterprise payload.

wonder what the Navajo curse was

[markman46]

the moon landings were not fake.
why do you think the russans never sent a manned mission to the moon? ummm because we got there first..

you think the photos of earthrise from apollo 8 were fake??

[Jan_Sobieski]

The moonrise pictures were real, but from Low Earth Orbit.

[The Louiswu]

“ why do you think the russans never sent a manned mission to the moon?”

Actually it’s because the Russian equivalent of the Saturn V, a rocket large enough to put their men on the moon blew up during a static test killing several techs and scientists and virtually wrecking their lunar launch facility. At that point they were several years behind and just gave up.

[SC DOC]

That was a bit of sarcasm. The Navajos, along with a number of other tribes did everything they could to try to block or delay the launch, saying the moon would be desecrated.

Link

[Campion]

The above picture was NOT taken from low earth orbit.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Run it through GoogleAI’s deep fake detection software. I am guessing it will come back as “Fake” like all the other Apollo pictures.