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Monisha Ravisetti

Private Peregrine moon lander failure won't stop NASA's ambitious commercial lunar program

A graphic illustration showing an Intuitive Machines' lander on the surface of the moon with Earth in the background. .

NEW ORLEANS — It was only two days ago when Peregrine, the inaugural private lander contracted under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, brilliantly blasted toward space aboard the first private flight of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket. 

Mere hours into the journey, Peregrine started to fail. 

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