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Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base Nasa has released details of robotic landers, hopping drones and vehicles it aims to send to the Moon as part of US plans to build a lunar base.

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Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base Nasa has released details of robotic landers, hopping drones and vehicles it aims to send to the Moon as part of US plans to build a lunar base.

Why it matters

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin is one of several companies picked to build the machines.

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The US wants to land Americans back on the … Related storyboards

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Millions of ballots are still being counted in California”
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Multiple web search results confirm that millions of ballots remain uncounted in California and that this is a common occurrence due to state law and the volume of mail-in ballots.
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web search NEUTRAL — California’s policy of counting ballots that are postmarked by Election Day and arrive up to seven days after has become something of a scapegoat.The real causes of California’s slow count are the she…
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/04/slow-vote-count-ca…
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web search NEUTRAL — California law is designed to count every valid ballot—even if that means results take days or weeks to finalize. Counties have weeks after Election Day to process, verify and count ballots before cer…
https://www.redding.com/story/news/nation/california/2026/06…
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web search NEUTRAL — Millions of mail-in ballots remain uncounted, traditionally favoring Democrats. Late election results are common in California.Only 63% of the ballots have been counted in the mayor’s race so far, acc…
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/3/makes-nervou…
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Claim 2: “the primary results for the state’s two marquee races for governor and mayor of Los Angeles remain uncalled as of Wednesday afternoon.”
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The specific claim about the governor and LA mayor races being uncalled as of 'Wednesday afternoon' is only found in the Flipboard cross-reference. Other search results for 'Wednesday' are irrelevant (referring to the TV show) and Wikipedia entries for LA institutions do not provide current election status.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) is a public research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is part of the California State University system. Cal State LA of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University,_L…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Los Angeles Angels are an American professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California, within the Greater Los Angeles area. The Angels compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_…
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Claim 3: “Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin is one of several companies picked to build the machines.”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that Blue Moon is a family of lunar landers under development by a consortium led by Blue Origin for NASA. Web search results also mention NASA Administrator Bill Nelson sharing pictures of the Blue Moon Mark 1 design.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Blue Moon is a family of lunar landers and their associated infrastructure, intended to carry humans and cargo to the Moon, under development by a consortium led by Blue Origin and including Lockheed …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moon_(spacecraft)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P. is a private American space technology company headquartered in Kent, Washington. The company operates the suborbital New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rock…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New Glenn is a heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by Blue Origin, named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. It flew to space on its maiden flight on Janu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Glenn_launches
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Claim 4: “NASA rover captures one of the sharpest panoramas of the Red Planet ever taken”
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Web search results from August 22, 2025, explicitly state that the Perseverance rover transmitted imagery forming one of the sharpest panoramas of the Martian surface to date.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Perseverance is a NASA rover that has been exploring Mars since February 18, 2021, as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Built and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it was launched on July 30, 202…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseverance_(rover)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021, demonstrating th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mars 2020 is a NASA mission that includes the rover Perseverance, the now-grounded small robotic helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Exploration Program. Mars 20…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2020
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Claim 5: “On April 10, the Orion spacecraft of NASA's Artemis II mission successfully splashed down off the coast of San Diego.”
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Wikipedia and official NASA sources (via web search and Facebook) confirm that the Artemis II mission splashed down off the coast of San Diego on April 10, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II (April 1–11, 2026) was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972, the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_II
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis III is an upcoming spaceflight mission, planned to be the second crewed mission in NASA's Artemis lunar exploration program, with a targeted launch in late 2027. The crew will launch aboard th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_III
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis IV is planned to be the third crewed mission and the first Moon landing in NASA's Artemis lunar exploration program, marking the first crewed Moon landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. For this mis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_IV
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Claim 6: “NASA's X-59 Is About to Crack the Sound Barrier Without the Boom”
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Wikipedia confirms the X-59 Quesst is an experimental supersonic aircraft for NASA's Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator project. Web search results further detail its design to break the sound barrier without a sonic boom.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst ("Quiet SuperSonic Technology"), sometimes styled QueSST, is an American experimental supersonic aircraft under development by Lockheed Martin for NASA's Low-Boom Fligh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_X-59_Quesst
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The X-38 is an experimental re-entry vehicle designed by NASA to research a possible emergency crew return vehicle (CRV) for the International Space Station (ISS). The 1995–2002 program also developed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_X-38
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The SAI Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) was a project by Supersonic Aerospace International (SAI) to develop a "virtually boomless" commercial supersonic business jet. The project was announced arou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAI_Quiet_Supersonic_Transport
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Claim 7: “Nasa has released details of robotic landers, hopping drones and vehicles it aims to send to the Moon as part of US plans to build a lunar base.”
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The claim is reported by multiple independent sources including BBC and Flipboard, and supported by web search results detailing NASA's plans for robotic landers and drones for a lunar base.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 26, 2026 ... Launch is targeted for 2028. The drones will independently land on the lunar surface and then gather high-resolution imagery of hard-to-reach ...
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-provides-update-on-mo…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 26, 2026 ... Nasa has released details of robotic landers, hopping drones and vehicles it aims to send to the Moon as part of US plans to build a lunar base.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39228nxyr4o
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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago ... and Ceres Robotics are developing mid-sized landers that could potentially be scaled up to larger vehicles in the future. NASA plans to use ...
https://www.facebook.com/deutschewellenews/posts/robotic-lan…
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