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It's one giant leap for Australia's space program with a lunar rover named Roo-ver to be built locally for a mission to collect moon soil.

While NASA was scrambling to locate Voyager 2, which it accidentally lost contact with last week, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex was quietly listening intently to a carrier signal from the spacecraft almost 20 billion kilometres away. We found it.

NASA says its huge dish antenna in Canberra is on the lookout for any stray signals from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft.

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Walter Cunningham, one of three astronauts aboard NASA's 1968 Apollo 7 mission that paved the way for the first moon landing, has died aged 90.

NASA's Orion capsule and its test dummies have swooped one last time around the moon, flying over a couple of Apollo landing sites before heading home.

A team of space trackers in the ACT will play a key part in NASA's mission to return a human to the moon, helping provide 24/7 coverage in its first stretch.

Australia is launching its first moon mission under a deal with NASA to build a lunar rover that could blast off within five years.