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The large landing vehicles planned for NASA’s upcoming moon missions could throw up large amounts of dust from the lunar surface, posing a possible danger to orbiters
Planned moon missions with large landers may stir up clouds of dust from the lunar surface, which could be dangerous for orbiters or even space stations.
Later this decade, NASA hopes to return humans to the surface of the moon with its Artemis programme. Two companies in the US, SpaceX and Blue Originhave been contracted to develop landers that could take humans to the lunar surface by 2025 at the earliest.
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