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NASA astronauts will try to grow plants on the moon | Tech Reader
It was almost a decade ago when astronauts aboard the International Space Station sat down for a meal of historical significance as it was the first to include...
Moon mining startup Interlune wants to start digging for helium-3 by 2030
A budding startup called Interlune is trying to become the first private company to mine the moon’s natural resources and sell them back on Earth. Interlune will initially...
It’s 20 years since a Mars rover took this historic image | Tech Reader
Twenty years ago, on March 8, a NASA Mars rover made history when it captured the first image of Earth from the surface of another planet.
The rover, Spirit,...
Two toppled moon landers go dormant for a lunar night they may not survive
Lunar night has come around again, presenting yet another test for the two landers that recently arrived on the moon’s surface. Both Japan’s SLIM spacecraft and Intuitive Machines’...
Artemis II lunar crew rehearses splashdown in the Pacific | Tech Reader
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NASA’s Artemis II crew received disappointing news in January when their lunar-flyby mission was pushed back at least 10 months to September 2025.
The space agency...
Odysseus lunar lander sends final transmission … perhaps | Tech Reader
Despite a messy landing that left the Odysseus spacecraft with a broken leg and tilting over, the team at Intuitive Machines has hailed its IM-1 lunar mission a...
