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Draper Lab team members Bobby Cohanim (in black shirt) and Eph Lanford check fittings and connections on TALARIS before running a test.

Leaping Lunar Landers!

Can a spacecraft hop its way to winning the Google Lunar X prize?
September 2011 | By Michael Belfiore

Apollo 15 lunar module pilot James B. Irwin, command module pilot Alfred M. Worden, and commander David R. Scott (left to right) during ocean recovery training for their lunar mission.

What Apollo 15 Got Right

A post-splashdown scandal did not undermine the mission’s scientific achievements.
May 13, 2011 | By Diane Tedeschi

Red Whittaker with his namesake, Red Rover II. Hours after Google announced its Lunar X Prize, Whittaker threw his ’bot in the ring.

Red and The Robots

Red Whittaker’s rovers have already gone where no robot has gone before. Will one of them make it to the moon?
January 2009 | By Geoffrey Little

The powdery lunar soil was great for making footprints, but was a problem for astronauts like Charlie Duke, shown here during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. It got in their eyes and throats, and clung stubbornly to every surface.

Stronger Than Dirt

Lunar explorers will have to battle an insidious enemy—dust.
September 2006 | By Trudy E. Bell

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The Other Moon Landings

The Soviets lost the moon race but won a dram of glory with the first robotic craft to roam another world.
March 2004 | By Andrew Chaikin


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