Flying above the far side of the moon in a circular 62-mile-high orbit, the squat lander fired its main engine at 2:31 a.m. EST, kicking off a white-knuckle 63-minute descent to the landing site ...

How Did the Spacecraft Get to the Moon? Astronauts got to the moon by traveling on a giant rocket (Saturn V) that launched them into space carrying the Command and Service Module ...

Over the past two years, NASA’s Cross Agency Site Selection Analysis team successfully narrowed the original 13 landing candidates ... first humans on the Moon since Apollo 17.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar spacecraft landed upright on the Moon–a first for a private company–and released amazing HD video ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have fallen ...

You can find Blue Ghost's landing site on the upper right part of the ... orbit higher until it reached the vicinity of the Moon on February 13, when it fired its engines to slip into lunar ...

A second American company has landed a spacecraft on the moon in an extraordinary feat once solely the realm of government space agencies like NASA. The landing ... site of the space agency's ...

Scientists had an interest in this area of the moon as a possible landing zone for a future human landing, and indeed Apollo 11 landed 44 miles southeast of the Ranger 8 impact site in July 1969.

NASA clinches the space race with the Soviets in 1969 with a moon landing by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Twelve astronauts explore the surface over six missions, before the ...

Landing on the Moon presents unique challenges due to the absence of an atmosphere. More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission ... lunar landing site ever attempted.