After the Peregrine capsule missed the target of a first commercial landing on the moon, it is set to crash back to earth in a controlled manner this Thursday. The capsule should burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific around 1,000 km north of New Zealand, around 10 am on Friday (2100 GMT Thursday), the Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic announced. A joint press conference with the US space agency NASA is scheduled for Friday. The private Peregrine mission was launched last week from the Cape Canaveral space centre in the US state of Florida. However, there were problems shor…