NASA sends five payloads to the Moon on Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lander, the first US lunar lander mission in fifty years

The suite of NASA payloads aboard Peregrine One will aim to locate water molecules on the Moon, measure radiation and gases around the lander, and evaluate the lunar exosphere (the thin layer of gases on the Moon’s surface).

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