The rocket-powered drone came from Intuitive Machines — it's meant to hop into a permanently shadowed crater near the landing site in search ... on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

The lander was near the intended target site ... America’s moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will pass over the landing site ... the Apollo 11 mission after Neil Armstrong, and Harrison Schmitt, an astronaut on Apollo 17, the ...

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 ...

The lander was near the intended target site ... America’s Moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the US had not landed on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

Until last year, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. No one else has ... a permanently shadowed crater near the landing site in search of frozen water.

Deploy instruments that will take physical measurements around the landing site. NASA says Blue Ghosts ... continuing the legacy of Apollo 17's Eugene Cernan, who first documented the ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 is targeting landing no sooner than 3:34 am US Eastern time (0834 GMT) on Sunday, aiming for a site near ... since the crewed Apollo 17 mission of 1972.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying IM-2 successfully lifted off at 7:16 P.M. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 26. Early next month, a robotic lander will arrive at the Moon's south pole bearing an eclectic ...

These instruments are designed to do a variety of work, from studying radiation levels at the landing site to testing out ... by Eugene Cernan on Apollo 17," they added. "Following sunset, Blue ...