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After its successful lunar touchdown, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission could soon be joined on the moon by two more commercial spacecraft ...

Teams considered several factors, including science potential, terrain, lighting and whether the landing trajectory would ... humans on the Moon since Apollo 17. Artemis 3 is expected to be ...

Nicknamed "Ghost Riders in the Sky," the Blue Ghost mission comes just over a year after the first-ever commercial lunar landing ...

“T-2 hours until #BlueGhost performs a Descent Orbit Insertion and begins her trajectory towards our ... lunar horizon glow first documented by Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan.

The Athena lander got off the ground right on time at 7:16 p.m. EST Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of the space agency's Apollo moon mission ...

The Artemis III moon landing, expected to be the first since the Apollo era, is scheduled for ... thrust—in a planned maneuver to line up its trajectory. Lunar orbit insertion is anticipated ...

Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin said in a post ... to the moon to collect needed science and engineering data before Artemis astronauts begin work on the surface near the lunar south pole later ...

Four test payloads will simulate the size of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites and follow the same trajectory of the upper ... the human landing system for its Artemis III mission, which is aiming ...