Japan's ispace attempts historic private moon landing

Japanese company ispace attempts to land its lunar lander, Hakuto-R, on the moon's surface, carrying the Rashid rover developed by Dubai's Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, potentially marking the world's first lunar landing for a commercially developed spacecraft. If successful, the Rashid rover will explore the Atlas Crater on the northeast of the Moon for most of the 14-day lunar daytime. ispace aims to land its spacecraft on the moon as a for-profit business, and its future plans include a mission to retrieve lunar soil samples on behalf of NASA.