Firefly Aerospace managed to stay upright when it landed on the moon two weeks ago and announced Monday it had completed its ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...

NASA bumped up the return flight home plans for the SpaceX Crew-9 mission that includes a pair of astronauts who were left ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...

The Texas company that returned America to the moon last year will launch its third private lunar mission ... it was the first U.S. landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. Nokia Bell Labs Both vehicles ...

The last time humans set foot on the Moon was 19 December 1972, during the Apollo 17 mission. "The Apollo missions were hugely successful," explained Dr Barber. "But they were 'touch and go ...

Before Apollo astronauts ... On Feb. 17, 1965, its successor Ranger 8 launched toward the moon, and three days later returned images of the moon. The mission's success helped the country meet ...

A privately owned lunar lander has touched down near the moon's south pole. But flight controllers in Texas fear it may have ...

This is the follow-up mission to the Intuitive Machines-1 (IM-1) lunar lander, Odysseus, in February 2024 which became the first American spacecraft to land on the moon since Apollo 17 ...

It also marks the second time a U.S. spacecraft had landed on the moon since 1972, with the touch down of the manned Apollo 17 mission ... latter landed on the moon last year, the spacecraft ...

The last time Intuitive ... the successor to Apollo. NASA officials said before the landing that they knew going in that some of the low-cost missions would fail. But with more private missions ...