{"id":569,"date":"2025-12-17T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/nasa-jpl-shakes-things-up-testing-future-commercial-lunar-spacecraft\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:33:34","slug":"nasa-jpl-shakes-things-up-testing-future-commercial-lunar-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/nasa-jpl-shakes-things-up-testing-future-commercial-lunar-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA JPL Shakes Things Up Testing Future Commercial Lunar Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"padding-top-5 padding-bottom-3 width-full maxw-full hds-module hds-module-full alignfull wp-block-nasa-blocks-article-intro\">\n<div class=\"width-full maxw-full article-header\">\n<div class=\"margin-bottom-2 width-full maxw-full\">\n<p class=\"label carbon-60 margin-0 margin-bottom-3 padding-0\">6 min read<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nasa-jpl-shakes-things-up-testing-future-commercial-lunar-spacecraft-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-866\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><h1 class=\"display-48 margin-bottom-2\">Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"width-full maxw-full margin-left-auto margin-right-auto hds-media-align-inline hds-module wp-block-nasa-blocks-video\">\n<div class=\"hds-cover-wrapper width-full maxw-full flex-column\">\n<div class=\"hds-video-container width-full embed-container\"><video title=\"Blue Ghost Mission 2 Prepped for Testing at JPL\" id=\"nasa-plus-Mo4eE\" class=\"video-js video-player vjs-fluid width-full\" data-setup='{\"controls\":true,\"preload\":\"auto\",\"plugins\":{\"mux\":{\"debug\":false,\"data\":{\"env_key\":\"91nns8oppqdfqc44lgo4b1gni\",\"player_name\":\"www.nasa.gov Player\",\"video_name\":\"Blue Ghost Mission 2 Prepped for Testing at JPL\"}}}}'><\/p>\n<p class=\"vjs-no-js\">To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/videojs.com\/html5-video-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supports HTML5 video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-media-caption hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">\n<div>A time-lapse video recorded at JPL in October shows engineers and technicians moving and attaching a full-scale model of Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost lunar lander on top of two lunar orbiters. The full stack was then subjected to a vibration test that mimics the violent action of rocket launch.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">\n<div>NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA\u2019s twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to the Moon. Launches involve brutal shaking and astonishingly loud noises, and testing in these facilities mimics those conditions to help ensure mission hardware can survive the ordeal. The latest spacecraft to get this treatment are Firefly Aerospace\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyspace.com\/missions\/blue-ghost-mission-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blue Ghost Mission 2<\/a> vehicles, set to launch to the Moon\u2019s far side next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Environmental Test Laboratory at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California is where dozens of robotic spacecraft have been subjected to powerful jolts, extended rattling, high-decibel blasts of sound, and frigid and scorching temperatures, among other trials. Constructed in the 1960s and modernized over the years, the facilities have prepared every NASA spacecraft built or assembled at JPL for the rigors of space, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/lunar-rangers-and-surveyors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ranger<\/a> spacecraft of the dawning Space Age to the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/mars-2020-perseverance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Perseverance Mars rover<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/europa-clipper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Europa Clipper<\/a>, currently en route to the Jupiter system.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That legacy, and the decades of accumulated experience of the Environmental Test Laboratory team at JPL, is also supporting industry efforts to return to the Moon as part of NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/commercial-lunar-payload-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLPS<\/a> (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/artemis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artemis<\/a> campaign, which will bring astronauts back to the lunar surface.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, a full-scale model of Firefly\u2019s uncrewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-picks-firefly-aerospace-for-robotic-delivery-to-far-side-of-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blue Ghost Mission 2<\/a> spacecraft was put through its paces by the experts in the lab\u2019s vibration and acoustic testing facilities. Lessons learned with this model, called a structural qualification unit, will be applied to upcoming testing of the spacecraft that will fly to the Moon as early as 2026 through NASA\u2019s CLPS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of knowledge gained over the years, passed from one generation of JPL engineers to another, that we bring to bear to support our own missions as well as commercial efforts,\u201d said Michel William, a JPL engineer in the Environmental Test Laboratory who led the testing. \u201cThe little details that go into getting these tests right \u2014 nobody teaches you that in school, and it\u2019s such a critical piece of space launch.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e1-pia26598-bgm2-etl-vert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1365\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e1-pia26598-bgm2-etl-vert.jpg?w=1365\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Engineers and technicians secure a full-scale model of Firefly\u2019s Blue Ghost lunar lander atop the other spacecraft that make up the company\u2019s second delivery to the lunar surface. Environmental testing for the spacecraft took place in a clean room at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in October. <\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Testing just right<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The Environmental Test Laboratory team led environmental testing for Firefly\u2019s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander in 2024, and seeing the spacecraft achieve a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/touchdown-carrying-nasa-science-fireflys-blue-ghost-lands-on-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">soft Moon landing<\/a> in March was a point of pride for them. Firefly\u2019s next CLPS delivery debuts a dual-spacecraft configuration and hosts multiple international payloads, with the company\u2019s Elytra Dark orbital vehicle stacked below the Blue Ghost lunar lander. Standing 22 feet (6.9 meters) high, the full structure is more than three times as tall as the Mission 1 lander.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This fall, a structural qualification model of the full stack was clamped to a \u201cshaker table\u201d inside a clean room at JPL and repeatedly rattled in three directions while hundreds of sensors monitored the rapid movement. Then, inside a separate acoustic testing chamber, giant horns blared at it from openings built into the room\u2019s 16-inch-thick (41-centimeter-thick) concrete walls. The horns use compressed nitrogen gas to pummel spacecraft with up to 153 decibels, noise loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss in a human.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each type of test involves several increasingly intense iterations. Between rounds, JPL\u2019s dynamics environment experts analyze the data to compare what the spacecraft experienced to computer model predictions. Sometimes a discrepancy leads to hardware modifications, sometimes a tweak to the computer model. Engineers and technicians are careful to push the hardware, but not too far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can either under-test or over-test, and both are bad,\u201d William said. \u201cIf you over-test, you can break your hardware. If you under-test, it can break on the rocket. It\u2019s a fine line.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"nasa-gb-align-center nasa-button-link padding-y-1 padding-x-0 hds-module aligncenter wp-block-nasa-blocks-related-link\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I67cTs-AjNg\" target=\"_self\" class=\"button-primary button-primary-md link-external-true\" aria-label=\"Watch how JPL\u2019s Environmental Test Laboratory preps spacecraft\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t<span class=\"line-height-alt-1\">Watch how JPL\u2019s Environmental Test Laboratory preps spacecraft<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since the model isn\u2019t itself launching to the Moon, Firefly\u2019s recent Environmental Test Laboratory visit didn\u2019t include several types of trials that are generally completed only for flight hardware. A launchpad-bound spacecraft would undergo electromagnetic testing to ensure that signals from its electronic parts don\u2019t interfere with one another. And, in what is probably the most well-known environmental test, flight-bound hardware is baked or chilled at extreme temperatures in a thermal vacuum chamber from which all the air is sucked out. The multiple thermal vacuum chamber facilities at JPL include two large historic \u201cspace simulators\u201d built within NASA\u2019s first few years of existence: a chamber that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/api\/citations\/19680004636\/downloads\/19680004636.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10 feet in diameter<\/a> and another that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/setmo\/facilities\/25-foot-space-simulator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">25 feet across<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-image-carousel grid-container grid-container-block padding-top-4 padding-bottom-4 hds-module hds-module-full alignfull wp-block-nasa-blocks-image-carousel\">\n<div id=\"carousel-wrapper-carousel-694207d275557\" class=\"hds-carousel-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-carousel-slider margin-0\" id=\"image-carousel-slider-carousel-694207d275557\" data-client-id=\"carousel-694207d275557\" data-variation=\"carousel\" data-autoplay=\"\" data-autoplay-speed=\"2000\" data-play-pause=\"\" data-transition-type=\"slide\" data-progress=\"\" data-progress-labels=\"\" data-start-label=\"Start\" data-end-label=\"End\" data-labels-initialized=\"true\">\n<div class=\"display-block width-full\" data-label=\"\">\n<figure class=\"margin-0\">\n<div class=\"hds-cover-wrapper hds-image-carousel-slide margin-bottom-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e2a-pia26599-bgm2-etl.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">A full-scale model of Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost Mission 2 lunar lander is prepared for delivery into a clean room at JPL\u2019s Environmental Test Laboratory in September. <\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<div class=\"display-block width-full\" data-label=\"\">\n<figure class=\"margin-0\">\n<div class=\"hds-cover-wrapper hds-image-carousel-slide margin-bottom-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e2b-pia26599-bgm2-etl-fig-a.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Technicians and engineers at JPL ready a fixture that will attach a full-scale model of Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost Mission 2 lunar lander, visible in the background, to a \u201cshaker table\u201d that tests a spacecraft\u2019s readiness to survive the stresses of launch.<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-carousel-nav display-flex margin-left-auto margin-right-0\" data-carousel-id=\"image-carousel-slider-carousel-694207d275557\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"hds-carousel-nav-arrow hds-carousel-arrow-prev\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"hds-carousel-nav-arrow hds-carousel-arrow-next margin-right-0\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Qualifying for launch<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The completion of Environmental Test Laboratory testing on Firefly\u2019s structural qualification model helps prove the spacecraft will survive its ride out of Earth\u2019s atmosphere aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Firefly\u2019s Blue Ghost Mission 2 team is now turning its focus to completing assembly and testing of the flight hardware for launch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once at the Moon, the Blue Ghost lander will touch down on the far side, delivering its payloads to the surface. Those include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/nasa-department-of-energy-join-forces-on-innovative-lunar-experiment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LuSEE-Night<\/a>, a radio telescope that is a joint effort by NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and University of California, Berkeley\u2019s Space Sciences Laboratory. A payload developed at JPL called <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/photojournal\/jpls-user-terminal-payload-delivered-to-firefly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">User Terminal<\/a> will test a compact, low-cost S-band radio communications system that could enable future far-side missions to talk to each other and to relay orbiters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, Firefly\u2019s Elytra Dark orbital vehicle will have deployed into lunar orbit ESA\u2019s (European Space Agency\u2019s) Lunar Pathfinder communications satellite \u2014 a payload on which NASA is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/lunar-orbiter\/nasa-mirrors-on-esa-pathfinder-to-enhance-lunar-navigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">collaborating<\/a>. Both vehicles will remain in orbit and able to relay data from the far-side surface back to Earth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirefly\u2019s Blue Ghost Mission 2 will deliver both NASA and international commercial payloads to further prove out technologies for Artemis and help enable a long-term presence on the Moon,\u201d said Ray Allensworth, Firefly\u2019s spacecraft program director. \u201cThe extensive spacecraft environmental testing we did at JPL for Mission 1 was a critical step in Firefly\u2019s test campaign for our historic lunar mission. Now we\u2019re collaborating again to support a successful repeat on the Moon that will unlock even more insights for future robotic and human missions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>News Media Contact<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Pamer\u00a0<br \/>Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.\u00a0<br \/>626-314-4928\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"mailto:melissa.pamer@jpl.nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">melissa.pamer@jpl.nasa.gov<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>2025-141<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"nasa-gb-align-full width-full maxw-full padding-x-3 padding-y-0 nasa_template_article_a hds-module hds-module-full alignfull wp-block-nasa-blocks-credits-and-details\">\n<section class=\"padding-x-0 padding-top-5 padding-bottom-2 desktop:padding-top-7 desktop:padding-bottom-9\">\n<div class=\"grid-row grid-container maxw-widescreen padding-0\">\n<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-2 padding-right-4 margin-bottom-5 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n<div class=\"padding-top-3 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margin-bottom-1\">5 min read<\/div>\n<div class=\"margin-bottom-1\">\n<h3 class=\"related-article-title\">NASA, Partners Share First Data From New US-European Sea Satellite<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"display-flex flex-align-center label related-article-label margin-bottom-1 color-carbon-60\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"display-flex flex-align-center margin-right-2\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Article<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t12 hours ago\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-4 margin-bottom-4 desktop:margin-bottom-0 desktop:padding-right-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/webb\/nasas-webb-curiosity-named-in-times-best-inventions-hall-of-fame\/\" class=\"color-carbon-black\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"margin-bottom-2\">\n<div 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flex-align-center margin-right-2\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Article<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t4 days ago\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-topic-cards nasa-gb-align-full maxw-full width-full padding-y-6 padding-x-3 color-mode-dark hds-module hds-module-full alignfull wp-block-nasa-blocks-topic-cards\">\n<div class=\"grid-container grid-container-block-lg padding-x-0\">\n<div class=\"grid-row flex-align-center margin-bottom-3\">\n<div class=\"desktop:grid-col-8 margin-bottom-2 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n<div class=\"label color-carbon-60 margin-bottom-2\">Keep Exploring<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"heading-36 line-height-sm\">Discover Related Topics<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-row grid-gap-2 hds-topic-cards-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/lunar-science\/programs\/clps\/\" class=\"mobile:grid-col-12 tablet:grid-col-6 desktop:grid-col-3 topic-card margin-bottom-4 desktop:margin-bottom-0\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"hds-topic-card hds-cover-wrapper cover-hover-zoom bg-carbon-black\">\n<div class=\"skrim-overlay skrim-overlay-dark skrim-left mobile-skrim-top padding-3 display-flex flex-align-end flex-justify-start z-200\">\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"hds-topic-card-heading heading-29 color-spacesuit-white line-height-sm margin-top-0 margin-bottom-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p class=\"margin-bottom-0 margin-top-2 color-carbon-20-important\">The goal of the CLPS project is to enable rapid, frequent, and affordable access to the lunar surface by helping\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" src=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/intuitive-machines-nova-c-lunar-lander-on-moon-2048x1152-1.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/moon\/\" class=\"mobile:grid-col-12 tablet:grid-col-6 desktop:grid-col-3 topic-card margin-bottom-4 desktop:margin-bottom-0\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"hds-topic-card hds-cover-wrapper cover-hover-zoom bg-carbon-black\">\n<div class=\"skrim-overlay skrim-overlay-dark skrim-left mobile-skrim-top padding-3 display-flex flex-align-end flex-justify-start z-200\">\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"hds-topic-card-heading heading-29 color-spacesuit-white line-height-sm margin-top-0 margin-bottom-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Earth\u2019s Moon<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p class=\"margin-bottom-0 margin-top-2 color-carbon-20-important\">The Moon makes Earth more livable, sets the rhythm of ocean tides, and keeps a record of our solar 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color-carbon-20-important\">In the Science Mission Directorate (SMD), the Exploration Science Strategy Integration Office (ESSIO) ensures science is infused into all aspects\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" src=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ldep-1.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/\" class=\"mobile:grid-col-12 tablet:grid-col-6 desktop:grid-col-3 topic-card margin-bottom-4 desktop:margin-bottom-0\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"hds-topic-card hds-cover-wrapper cover-hover-zoom bg-carbon-black\">\n<div class=\"skrim-overlay skrim-overlay-dark skrim-left mobile-skrim-top padding-3 display-flex flex-align-end flex-justify-start z-200\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"hds-topic-card-heading heading-29 color-spacesuit-white line-height-sm margin-top-0 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