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NASA tests 14-inch hybrid rocket motor for smoother and safer Moon touchdowns

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center experts in Huntsville, Alabama, are conducting crucial tests for a safe lunar landing. They have been firing a 14-inch 3D-printed hybrid rocket motor, developed at ...
Arizona Daily Star

Named for lunar lander, Module McGhee rockets on

The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn't name her Eagle. He named her Module. Module McGhee ...
CNN

Inside NASA’s scramble to find a backup moon plan — and the wild ideas companies are pitching

A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the agency’s upcoming moon-landing plans has rocked the space industry. Now, behind the scenes, ...
Ars Technica

Why did NASA’s chief just shake up the agency’s plans to land on the Moon?

NASA acting Administrator Sean Duffy made two television appearances on Monday morning in which he shook up the space agency’s plans to return humans to the Moon. Speaking on Fox News, where the ...