John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic, at the company’s office in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. Photo: Ross Mantle

Beyond Prime: Inside the Race to Deliver Shipments to the Moon

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic is set to be the first private company to make a lunar landing

Laura Parker
OneZero
Published in
16 min readApr 17, 2019

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InIn early 2019, Israeli organization SpaceIL launched a small spacecraft named Beresheet from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a simple mission: to become the first private spacecraft to land on the moon.

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Laura Parker
OneZero

Writer, Jules Verne enthusiast, baked goods connoisseur. Arts, culture, science & tech.