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Can private companies carry NASA back to the Moon?
ULA’s rocket carrying Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lunar Lander lifts off on January 8th. The lander didn’t make it to the Moon. | Photo by Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images
The failure of recent missions highlights the challenges of relying on private entities to spearhead the US’s lunar ambitions.