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In the span of just 34 days, two different spacecraft have joined a rare club: landing on the Moon sideways. It’s not what either the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) or Houston-based Intuitive Machines were aiming to do. But bother are calling their missions a success.


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