Planned moon landings could pelt orbiting spacecraft with dusty debris

Deliberate moon missions with giant landers could fire up clouds of mud from the lunar floor, which could possibly 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 would take people to the lunar floor by 2025 on the earliest.

Nonetheless, …