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Stories about: lunar lander

Thrusters for ESA's Upcoming Lunar Lander Mission Completed At a special facility operated by aerospace company Astrium in Lampoldshausen, Germany, engineers recently tested a series of advanced thrusters, which were developed in order to power up the next European spacecraft bound for the Moon. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Lunar Lander will be an unmanned spacecra... 6 March 2012 03:04 GMT ESA Looking at Lunar Lander Mission Recent investigations by NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) satellite have revealed in late 2009 that massive amounts of water-ice can be found at the lunar south pole. Though the area experiences extremely cold temperatures, and the craters there are among the coolest places in the s... 31 March 2010 06:48 GMT NASA Names the New Lunar Lander More than three decades have passed since the last manned mission to the Moon and NASA hopes to change that within the next decade. Officials have revealed recently that they plan to send a manned mission to the moon by the year 2020. In order to do so however, they need a new lunar lander, previously referred to as ... 15 December 2007 06:17 GMT