the Apollo program ending with the landing of Apollo 17 was largely flawless in planning and execution. NASA mixed science ...

Perhaps surprisingly, the U.S. has never sent a robotic rover to the moon before; the famous LRV moon buggy used during the ...

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 another a soft landing. The successful soft landing on the moon was ...

HOUSTON - NASA announced it has awarded three private space companies a contract to compete in the design of a new lunar terrain vehicle that could ferry astronauts around the Moon. Intuitive ...

Then in 1971, Willis was the broker for the moon buggy used during the American Apollo program’s missions to the moon. In March 2019, Willis Towers Watson was embroiled in a potential mega-deal ...

Scientists had an interest in this area of the moon as a possible landing zone for a future human landing, and indeed Apollo 11 landed 44 miles southeast of the Ranger 8 impact site in July 1969.

The last time NASA collected data on the heat emerging from the moon's interior was when the space agency still sent astronauts on Apollo missions. The lunar heat-flow study had seemingly ended.

"The TV audience for Charlie [Duke] walking on the moon was a fraction of what the audience was for [Apollo 11]. Not for me — for me, any time a human being was out there walking around [I was ...

The Blue Ghost mission — and its historic landing — plays a key role in NASA's initiative to send American astronauts back to ...