the Apollo 14 and 15 moon missions of 1971 put the United States that much closer to the end of its Apollo series of spaceflights. For Russia, the year in space was both triumphant and tragic.

A private spacecraft has successfully landed on the Moon, marking only the second time a commercial vehicle has reached the lunar surface.Blue Ghost, launched by US firm Firefly Aerospace on 15 ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost marks a new era in commercial space, proving private industry’s role in space exploration and ...

A spaceship skimming 100km above the Moon is capturing some of the best footage since NASA's Apollo missions. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is in low orbit as it ...

I can say with complete confidence that if [chief designer for spacecraft] Sergei Pavlovich Korolev were alive, we would have flown around the moon six months ahead of Apollo 8." Soyuz design ...