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This Private Moon Lander Is Kicking Off a Commercial Lunar Race

Science, Spoken

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iSpace's M1 Lunar Landing Launches on the Moon

Japanese company iSpace could be the first to safely touch down on the moon's surface, with more spacecraft following later this year by Rameen Skiba. Other companies like Firefly Aerospace and Draper have their own landers heading there in the next couple years. NASA has been putting out calls for bids to deliver a science payload or technology development one that it wants shipped to a specific lunar location by a certain date.

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