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As the Odysseus Moon lander faces its final hours, there's one final twist in the saga: The spacecraft broke one of its legs on landing, thanks to a cascade of mistakes that began back on Earth ...

Space Exploration Technologies plans to include landing legs on its next Falcon 9 rocket, a key step toward developing a reusable, lower-cost launcher.

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SpaceX said the rocket appeared to have had a hard landing and a broken landing leg. SpaceX then said the second stage re-ignition was successful and the Jason-3 satellite was deployed.

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The first private U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon broke a leg at touchdown before falling over, according to company officials who said Wednesday it was on the verge of losing power.

As part of its effort to create a partially reusable space rocket, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. installed landing legs on the first stage of the Falcon 9 launcher scheduled to loft the ...

Intuitive Machines, the company that built the lander, released new photos Wednesday, six days after the landing, that showed at least one broken leg on the six-legged spacecraft.