On Monday, Jan. 8, Astrobotic Technology, a privately owned aerospace company based in Pittsburgh, Penn., launched a craft that was supposed to land on the moon. This is the same company that NASA paid $5.6 million to develop a shoebox-sized MoonRanger rover a few years back. The launch of the Peregrine, however, is much more significant as it represents the first time in five decades that a commercially-built American lander was sent to the moon.  The event initially seemed to
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