Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have private companies deliver shipments of equipment to the lunar surface.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander snapped incredible photographs of the March 13–14 total lunar eclipse, ...

A NEW LUNAR LANDER WILL TAKE NASA TECHNOLOGY ON A MISSION TO SEARCH FOR WATER BENEATH THE MOON’S SURFACE ... THAT’S ACTUALLY WHY WE HAVE VARIOUS DIFFERENT MISSIONS IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS ...

There are currently three landers, on three different exploration missions ... But landing on the moon remains daunting, largely because it's a world with virtually no atmosphere to slow ...

The first private lunar lander to complete a successful moon mission went dark this weekend ... failed attempts by other firms. Only five countries – the U.S., Russia, China, India and Japan ...

It is on a longer, low-energy trajectory to the moon and is expected to land in May. The Athena lander represents a more complex mission with ... small satellites to different locations in Earth ...

The Houston-based company is poised to land its Athena spacecraft on the moon at 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

which will enter orbit after a four-month journey and begin a two-year mission to study the distribution of different forms of water on the Moon. These missions come at a delicate time for NASA ...

These ground controllers at Firefly Aerospace hope that their robotic spacecraft, named Blue Ghost, will become the second commercial mission to complete a soft landing on the Moon, following the ...