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NASA goes private for 1st astronaut lunar landers in decades

by AP Aerospace Writer
| May 1, 2020 12:03 AM

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is turning to private industry for the first lunar landers for astronauts in a half-century, with three competing, quite contrasting versions.

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