AP News says that two NASA-launched lunar landers had been slated to become the US's first moon landing attempts—these would be unmanned—in over 50 years next month, but the first one to launch, on a Lockheed/Boeing/Blue Origin "Vulcan" rocket, has suffered a "critical" fuel leak hours after launch that appears likely to prevent its Moon landing.
Intuitive Machines' lander, taking a more direct route, is due to launch on a SpaceX rocket next month.
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^ From "Captain America Joins... The Avengers!" in The Avengers #4, March 1964. Stan Lee script, Jack Kirby plot & pencils, George Roussos inks, Stan Goldberg(?) (original) colors, Artie Simek letters. Photoshop color reduction.
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