NASA to Launch Craft to Unexplored Orbit for Moon Outpost - VICE

“The role of a flight test is to separate the real from the imagined, and that's what we're setting about doing here," said a mission lead.

NASA is poised to send a tiny satellite to an unexplored trajectory around the Moon that might one day serve as an orbital home to astronauts on a planned lunar space station known as the Gateway.  … [+6087 chars]

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