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US space agency NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX have signed an agreement for the second lunar landing mission before the end of the decade. Last year NASA selected SpaceX to be a part of their first lunar mission in 50 years using a modified in-development Starship spacecraft. The first moon landing could occur in 2025, while the second may take place in 2027. Read:  WhatsApp Business chat will drive sales sooner than metaverse NASA's un crewed Artemis 1 mission aims to test the technologies of a spaceflight system ready to send astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024, part of the Artemis 2 mission. Artemis 3 will be expected to place two astronauts on the moon using Space X's spacecraft in 2025, and then later again two years later, in the Artemis 4 mission. SpaceX has yet to fully test its spacecraft which would fly into orbit aboard SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket. While the Lunar Gateway space station, to be built by NASA, will act as a base for astronaut...

TOKYO: Japanese startup ispace inc is preparing to land its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) spacecraft on the moon early on Wednesday, in what would be the world's first lunar landing by a private company if it succeeds. The M1 lander is set to touch down around 1:40 a.m. Japan time (1640 GMT Tuesday) after taking off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a SpaceX rocket in December. Success would mark a welcome reversal from the recent setbacks Japan has faced in space technology, where it has big ambitions of building a domestic industry, including a goal of sending Japanese astronauts to the moon by the late 2020s. In one of the biggest blows, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) last month lost its new medium-lift H3 rocket to forced manual destruction after it reached space. That was less than five months since JAXA's solid-fuel Epsilon rocket failed after launch in October. The 2.3-metre-tall (7.55 ft) M1 will begin an hour-long landing p...

A team led by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin won a coveted $3.4 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to and from the moon's surface, the US space agency said on Friday, a breakthrough for the company two years after it lost out to Elon Musk's SpaceX in another com Pet ition. Blue Origin plans to build its 52-foot (16-meter) tall Blue Moon lander in partnership with Lockheed Martin Corp, Boeing Co, software firm Draper and robotics firm Astrobotic. NASA picked Blue Origin over a rival bid led by Leidos Inc-owned defense contract or Dynetics that also included Northrop Grumman Corp. NASA's decision to go with Bezos and Blue Origin will give it a second option for sending astronauts to the moon under its Artemis program. NASA awarded fellow billionaire Musk's SpaceX $3 billion in 2021 to build its Starship spacecraft to land astronauts on the lunar surface for the first time since the final Apollo mission in 1972. The first two Starshi...