NASA chooses 4 firms for first private lunar sample collection

NASA chooses 4 firms for first private lunar sample collection

Space Daily

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Washington DC (UPI) Dec 03, 2020

Four companies will collect moon rocks and dust on the lunar surface for NASA by 2023 in preparation for a human mission the following year, the space agency announced Thursday. The missions would be the first time a private company has collected samples from another planetary body, and the first time ownership of an object would be transferred beyond Earth orbit, according to NASA.

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