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Environmental tests of Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) lunar lander have been completed inside Thermal Vacuum Chamber A at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA

Blue Origin's lunar lander passes critical thermal vacuum test at NASA

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Blue Moon Mark 1, an unmanned cargo lander from Blue Origin, has completed environmental testing in the thermal vacuum chamber at Johnson Space Center. The lander is designed to demonstrate landing, propulsion and navigation technologies for lunar missions.
After delivering ten NASA science and technology payloads to the near side of the Moon through the CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and NASA's Artemis operation, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander captured this image of a sunset from the surface of the Moon. Credit: Firefly Aerospace

NASA captures sunset on the moon in stunning leaping images of dust and light (4K)

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Blue Ghost lander on the lunar surface. There are two other active private lunar missions, photo: Firefly Aerospace

Second private landing on the moon: Blue Ghost lands safely

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The Firefly lunar lander has successfully landed in the Mare Crisium region on the near side of the Moon, carrying NASA science and technology instruments as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
An artist's rendering of the design of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER). Its mission was to closely examine the location and concentration of ice and other resources at the lunar south pole Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter

NASA has terminated the VIPER lunar rover project

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NASA issued a call to private companies that want to continue the project without government funding. NASA will focus on future lunar missions utilizing technologies and tools from VIPER
A model of a vehicle driving on a rock in an experiment of the CADRE project. The technology demonstration, destined for the Moon, will show the potential for cooperative autonomous exploration using a team of three small solar vehicles. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's "bi-mode" autonomous mini-vehicles to join Artemis program lunar crews

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