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The company said it lost contact with Starship as it neared its goal, a splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
Their capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Panhandle early Tuesday.
Intuitive Machines, the Houston company that built and flew the spacecraft, said Monday that sunlight will likely stop shining on the solar panels Tuesday morning.
If successful, it would be the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years.
NASA is relying heavily on private companies for its moon missions, part of the reason for the new delays.
Astrobotic was aiming to be the first private company to successfully land on the moon, something only four countries have accomplished.
The planets are two to three times the size of Earth, but made mostly of gas. None of the planets are within the star’s so-called habitable zone.
SpaceX launched the Psyche spacecraft on Friday from Florida in a first-of-its-kind mission. Scientists believe the asteroid is the battered remnant of an early planet’s iron core.
The celestial showstopper will yield a partial eclipse across much of the Western Hemisphere, including in Anchorage.
Rubio and two Russians are back on Earth after working in space for just over a year.
The panel found no evidence that “unidentified anomalous phenomena” had extraterrestrial origin.
One passenger bought his ticket 18 years ago.
Flight controllers sent a wrong command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the spacecraft’s antenna away from Earth and severed contact.
NASA is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of the telescope’s best yet.
Mission leaders acknowledged that the Zhurong rover has yet to wake up since going into hibernation for the Martian winter nearly a year ago and may never function again.