Going Back to the Moon
Going Back to the Moon
Fifty years after humans first set foot on the Moon, Astrobotic is one of the companies selected by NASA to go back to the Moon to carry payloads and instruments and set the stage to potentially colonize the planet. Mechanical Engineering magazine Editor-in-Chief John Falcioni talks with Astrobotic’s CEO John Thornton.
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