This will be the first US spacecraft to land on the Moon since Apollo
. The company has revealed the finished version of the Peregrine Moon lander ahead of its launch in the fourth quarter of the year. It's an externally simple design that resembles an upside-down pot, but that will be enough to carry 24 missions that include 11 NASA items, a Carnegie Mellon rover, private cargo and even"cultural messages" from Earth.
Peregrine is slightly over six feet tall and can hold up to 100 kilograms . More importantly for customers, it's relatively cheap— it'll cost $1.2 million per kilogram to ferry payloads to the Moon's surface . That sounds expensive, but it's a bargain compared to the cost of rocket launches.
The machine should make history if and when it's successful. Peregrine is expected to be the first US spacecraft to land on the Moon since the
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