The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen ...
If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.
Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.
Intuitive Machines' second moon lander was launched on Wednesday atop a SpaceX rocket, setting off for the latest private U.S. moonshot one year after the company's first attempt ended early with a ...
The four-legged Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific payloads as it touched down near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a ...
The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic ...
Resilience also launched on the same rocket as Blue Ghost, though it is taking a much slower trajectory to the moon and is not expected to land before spring. Ispace is targeting landing in a 750 ...
The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen missions this year alone ...
The craters are believed to hold tons of frozen water that could be used by future crews to drink and turn into rocket fuel.
It was launched on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that sent Blue Ghost to the moon.Credit...ispace, via Associated Press After two landings four days apart — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost on ...
A landing leg broke and the spacecraft ... eight days ago by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Sharing the ride to space were three other spacecraft: a moon-bound NASA orbiter known as the Lunar ...