US lunar mission’s landing attempt next week

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Florida: Another private US company (Intuitive Machines) took a shot at the moon on Thursday, launching a month after SpaceXs Falcon rocket missed its mark and came crashing back..

NASA, the main sponsor with experiments on board, is hoping for a successful moon landing next week as it seeks to jumpstart the lunar economy ahead of astronaut missions..

Stockholm: Sweden won't reopen an investigation into a 1994 ferry sinking in the Baltic Sea that killed 852 people in one of Europe's deadliest peacetime sea disasters, after investigators in Estonia, Finland and Sweden found no indication of a collision or an explosion, prosecutor Karolina Wieslander said on Thursday..

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