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Space.com | November 05, 2009

Flying a spacecraft on a planet with little or no atmosphere presents a definite technical challenge. Wings and propellers are useless, so NASA is practicing the art of flying by thruster on a prototype lander to touch down on an air-less moon. 'It's quite an engineering problem to solve. With our t...

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