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NASA spent $2M on a giant moon and never used it

NASA has a long history of spending big on bold ideas, only to see some of them stall, crash, or get quietly shelved. The ...
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The Gemini 9 T-38 crash that nearly destroyed NASA’s moon plans, and changed Apollo 11 forever

In February 1966, a Gemini crew’s T 38 jet slammed into McDonnell’s Building 101 in a storm, killing two astronauts and narrowly missing the heart of the Gemini program. Had the impact been just ...
The New York Times

NASA Gets Moon Lander Plan B’s From SpaceX and Blue Origin

As NASA worries that China will win the next moon race, Elon Musk and his company tangled with critics. By Kenneth Chang NASA wants ideas of how to speed up the return of its astronauts to the surface ...
ABC7

NASA names moon crash site in honor of Sally Ride

Engineers commanded the twin spacecraft, Ebb and Flow, to fire their engines and burn their remaining fuel. Ebb plunged first followed by Flow about 30 seconds later. Afterward, NASA said it had ...
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, ...
CNN

NASA has a wild plan to return astronauts to the moon. Here’s why experts are starting to worry

Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly loud and frequent, emanating from bipartisan lawmakers and science advocates alike. But ...