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Jul 2024
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NASA cancels $450M Viper moon mission, d...

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The now-scrapped moon mission would have been the U.S. space agency's first resource-mapping mission off planet Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 
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