Mission
A pair of companies are planning to launch uncrewed spacecraft to the moon within weeks of each other early next year in a NASA-funded effort that could mark the first soft landings for the US on the lunar surface since the last of the Apollo missions in 1972.
In a sign of how the commercial space industry is transforming exploration, the companies are also vying for another historic first: to become the first private venture to land on the moon.
On January 8, Astrobotic,
