A Japanese lunar lander with a United Arab Emirates-built rover will try to make contact with the moon's surface in the next 24 hours. If successful, this would be the first commercially made spacecraft to set foot on the moon.
On December 11, the lander was carried into space by a SpaceX rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Since then, a low-energy trajectory has taken it on a three-month journey to reach the moon, which is located approximately 239,000 miles (383,000 km) from Earth.
