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Two private landers head to the moon to aid future NASA astronauts
They hitched a ride into orbit on SpaceX’s recent Falcon 9 launch.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning carrying two private lunar landers into orbit in support of NASA’s future Artemis landing crews. There are 10 payloads from NASA-funded customers aboard the lander that will carry out a variety of environmental tests to study things like lunar dust, electric and magnetic fields, and satellite navigation signals. Once there, it has six commercial payloads to deploy, including a radiation probe, water electrolyzing equipment, food production experiments, and a camera-equipped “Micro Rover” that will collect lunar samples.
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