Man on the Moon again?

The spacecraft of the Japanese company &quot;Ispace&quot;, &quot;Hakuto-R 2&quot;, it will be the second attempt to land on the moon after a failed attempt in April last year due to an error in calculating the altitude at the very end of the mission, reported Reuters.The aircraft of the American company &quot;Firefly Aerospace&quot;, &quot;Blue Ghost&quot;, is the first aircraft of that company to be launched within the NASA program.Both spacecraft carry research devices and technologies to collect lunar samples. The Hakuto-R 2 spacecraft carries $16 million worth of equipment and technology, including its own Micro Rover that will land on the spacecraft and collect samples from the moon.Shutterstock/Tranding artThat spacecraft is expected to land on the moon in four to five months or in the summer. The goal of the &quot;Firefly Aerospace&quot; spacecraft is to reach the moon 45 days from the day of launch, which, according to forecasts, should be around March 2.Only five countries have successfully landed spacecraft on the Moon since the 1960s: the former Soviet Union, the United States, China, India and Japan.NASA paid $101 million for the Firefly mission and an additional $44 million for the experiments. Hakamada would not disclose the cost of the Hakuto mission, but said it was less than the first mission, which cost more than $100 million.By the end of February, NASA will launch another spacecraft, this time from the company &quot;Intuitive Machines&quot;, which last year achieved the first American landing on the moon in the last 50 years.

Man on the Moon again?

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