Sentences with phrase «commercial lunar landers»

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Eventually, commercial moon landers may help carry a diverse library of cultural and biological records to the lunar surface, where they would be preserved in case Earth suffers a pandemic plague, nuclear holocaust or lethal asteroid strike.

In the weeks since, NASA officials have started sketching out how that effort might unfold — from a series of small commercial landers, to larger NASA landers, to a multinational space station near the Moon that could serve as a base for robots and astronauts travelling to the lunar surface.

For the first time, NASA may use commercial landers to reach the lunar surface.

«It's one small step for lunar landers, one giant leap for commercial development of the moon,» he says.