Peregrine lander in clean room
Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander will now attempt a landing near a region called the Gruithuisen Domes that is the target of a future CLPS mission. Credit: Astrobotic

NASA and Astrobotic have changed the landing site for the company’s first lunar lander mission shortly before its scheduled launch, moving the mission to a location of greater scientific interest.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...