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Broken moon lander beams back a final poignant photo — of Earth

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A spacecraft on the moon is lying on its side. It snapped a leg while landing. And now it’s lost power. But before the freezing, two-week lunar night swept over Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander, the robotic craft beamed back one final transmission from space. It shows the cratered grey surface spreading to the lunar … Read more

Japanese spacecraft reaches moon’s orbit, beams back images

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After more than three months of whizzing through space, Japan’s lunar lander arrived at the moon on Christmas. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — NASA’s Japanese counterpart known as JAXA for short — announced that its moon mission had achieved a major milestone on Dec. 25, successfully inserting into an oval-shaped orbit around the lunar … Read more