The Danuri spacecraft, which launched on Thursday, aims to provide a lunar scientific bounty while preparing the country’s small space program for future exploration.
Tag: Moon
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How to Watch South Korea’s First Moon Launch
The Danuri mission, lifting off on a SpaceX rocket, will help to study the moon’s magnetic field and some of its coldest and darkest places.
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NASA’s CAPSTONE Launch to the Moon: How to Watch
The small spacecraft will be the first to head to the moon in a year when other planned missions have yet to get off the launchpad.
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They Found Two New Craters on the Moon and Discovered a New Mystery
Tediously searching through imagery from a NASA spacecraft, researchers found where a discarded stage of a forgotten rocket crashed in March. But other questions remain.
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Dead Roaches That Ate Moon Dust Went Up for Auction. Then NASA Objected.
The sale was halted after the space agency claimed it owned everything associated with a 1969 experiment that explored whether lunar soil was dangerous to terrestrial life.