SpaceX successfully launched a pair of lunar landers from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in a two-for-one moonshot mission. The landers, one for a Tokyo-based company called ispace and the other for Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, are part of a growing trend of private spacecraft missions to the moon.
ispace, which had a previous lunar lander crash, is back with a new mission featuring a rover equipped with a scoop to collect lunar dirt for analysis. The company also plans to test potential food and water sources on the moon for future exploration.
