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    on-orbit storage of their cryogenic propellants. Several spacecraft designs are included in the Blue Moon program. These include the Mark 1 lander, the Mark...
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  • Look up blue moon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A blue moon is an astronomical phenomenon. Blue Moon may also refer to: The Blue Moon (film), a...
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    A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made...
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    Starship HLS (redirect from Moon Starship)
    lander variant of the Starship spacecraft that is slated to transfer astronauts from a lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back. It is being designed...
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    Solar-Power Systems on the Moon". Blue Origin. Retrieved November 1, 2023. "Blue Ring: Blue Origin Announces New Logistical Spacecraft | Space Voyaging". October...
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    A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications,...
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    LM was extracted, the combined spacecraft headed for the Moon, while the rocket stage flew on a trajectory past the Moon. This was done to avoid the third...
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    orbit (NRHO) of the Moon prior to the launch of SLS/Orion. After Starship HLS reaches NRHO, SLS/Orion will send the Orion spacecraft with a crew of four...
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  • of the Moon. The first Blue Ghost mission is scheduled for launch in 2024. Firefly is the prime contractor for lunar delivery services using Blue Ghost...
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    This is a list of all crewed spacecraft types that have flown into space, including sub-orbital flights above 80 km, space stations that have been visited...
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    scientific experiments. The Moon has also been visited by five spacecraft not dedicated to studying it; four of these spacecraft have flown past for the purpose...
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    Lunar lander (redirect from Moon lander)
    A lunar lander or Moon lander is a spacecraft designed to land on the surface of the Moon. As of 2024, the Apollo Lunar Module is the only lunar lander...
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    exploration Tourism on the Moon Spacecraft was in lunar orbit but is assumed to have decayed from orbit and crashed into the Moon, location unknown. Portions...
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    GRAIL (redirect from Ebb (spacecraft))
    high-quality gravitational field mapping of the Moon to determine its interior structure. The two small spacecraft GRAIL A (Ebb) and GRAIL B (Flow) were launched...
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    was to test sensors and spacecraft components in long-term exposure to space and to make scientific observations of both the Moon and the near-Earth asteroid...
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    IM-1 (redirect from Odysseus (spacecraft))
    American-made spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. Steve Altemus, CEO of IM, says Nova-C is the first spacecraft to use liquid...
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  • the Moon, Lunaria One, an Australian organization, plans to send plants such as resurrection grass with the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet 2 to the Moon in...
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    photographed the Earth from the spacecraft as it travelled towards the Moon. One of these photographs is now known as The Blue Marble. The crew found that...
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    required for a Moon landing, to a maximum of two weeks To effect rendezvous and docking with another vehicle, and to maneuver the combined spacecraft using the...
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    on the Moon from 1968 to 1972. It was first conceived in 1960 during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-person spacecraft to follow...
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    Europa Clipper (category Europa (moon))
    Planned for launch on 14 October 2024, the spacecraft is being developed to study Europa, a Galilean moon, through a series of flybys while in orbit around...
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    or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists of a Crew Module (CM) space capsule designed...
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    en route to the Moon. These culminated with a problem with the spacecraft's main engine that resulted in a six-hour delay in the Moon landing as NASA...
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    make it unlikely for spacecraft to harbor bacterial spores at the Moon longer than just one lunar orbit. The topography of the Moon has been measured with...
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    Apollo 14 (redirect from Moon golfer)
    following the failure of Apollo 13 to reach the Moon's surface, and the need for modifications to the spacecraft as a result. Commander Alan Shepard, Command...
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    Artemis I (category Spacecraft that orbited the Moon)
    Moon and demonstrate technologies and business approaches needed for future scientific studies, including exploration of Mars. The Orion spacecraft for...
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    Artemis V (category Crewed missions to the Moon)
    mission of NASA's Artemis program and the first crewed flight of the Blue Moon lander. The mission will launch four astronauts on a Space Launch System...
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    Apollo 8 (category Crewed missions to the Moon)
    crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times...
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    Zond 5 (redirect from Moon tortoises)
     'Probe 5') was a spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program. In September 1968 it became the first spaceship to travel to and circle the Moon in a circumlunar...
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    10 g (0.35 oz) of samples. The spacecraft will then take off from Phobos and make several flybys of the smaller moon Deimos before sending the Return...
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