Artist’s depiction of the Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander, which NASA has chosen for its Artemis V mission
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Planned moon missions with massive landers could fire up clouds of mud from the lunar floor, which could be harmful for orbiters and even house stations.
Later this decade, NASA hopes to return people to the floor of the moon with its Artemis programme. Two corporations within the US, SpaceX and Blue Origin, have been contracted to develop landers that could take people to the lunar floor by 2025 on the earliest.
However, …