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The Japanese Space Agency
Resilience (Hakuto-M2)
lunar lander and rover and the Firefly
Blue Ghost
Mission 1 lunar lander were launched successfully on 15 January 2025 at 06:11 UT (1:11 a.m. EST).
For more, see the
NASA press release
and the
ispace news release.
The European Space Agency
Bepi-Colombo
mission made its sixth Mercury flyby on January 8.
- 1930
- Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, second person on the Moon, born in Montclair, New Jersey.
- 2024
- SLIM spacecraft lands on the Moon, Japan becomes 5th country to achieve lunar landing.
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