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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

providing detailed surface imagery and data on the moon's many craters. One of Grace's hops is expected to be into a small crater about a quarter-mile from the landing site, which would mark the ...

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.

(KTEN) — It's not every day you get to speak with an astronaut who's made a trip to the moon. Lone Grove Middle ... the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission; one where ...