A brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, should lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 2:18 am (7:18 GMT) for its maiden voyage, carrying Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander. A brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, should lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 2:18 am (7:18 GMT) for its maiden voyage, carrying Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander. A challenging taskIf all goes to plan, the Peregrine Lunar Lander, seen here being installed inside the Vulcan rocket, will touch down on a mid-latitude region of the Moon on February 23. "We think that it's going to allow... more cost effective and more rapidly accomplished trips to the lunar surface to prepare for Artemis," said NASA's Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for exploration. Science instruments, human remainsAstronaut Harrison Schmitt collects lunar rake samples at the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the moon during the Apollo 17 mission, America's last lunar landing.

Source: The Star January 07, 2024 14:45 UTC