The past couple of weeks has offered us vivid examples in the news of two events, one of which I call a hard landing and ...
It still managed to operate briefly, ending America’s moon-landing drought of more than 50 years.Until then, the U.S. had not ...
Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Only five countries have done it. The latest ...
dulling the achievement of being the first US Moon touchdown since the crewed Apollo 17 mission of 1972. “We’re on the Moon!” exclaimed Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s ...
Godspeed, Odysseus! The six-legged robotic spacecraft could become the first American vehicle to land on the moon since ...
University of Colorado Boulder scientists are participating in five lander missions to the moon in the next few years to ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but as the minutes dragged on, ...
Athena, the private lunar lander from Intuitive Machines, missed its mark while landing on the moon Thursday and ended up ...
On Feb. 17, 1965, its successor ... Lunar Orbiter 2 and Apollo 16 both imaged the Ranger 8 impact site at relatively low resolution in 1966 and 1972, respectively. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...
In February 2024, Intuitive Machines became the first private company to achieve a soft lunar landing -- also the first US landing since the crewed Apollo 17 mission of 1972. However, the success ...
In February 2024, Intuitive Machines became the first private company to achieve a soft lunar landing -- also the first US landing since the crewed Apollo 17 mission of 1972. However, the success ...