The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander touched down on the moon. See footage of the descent and landing here. Credit: ...

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A SpaceX Starship upper stage exploded during ramp-up to an expected engine test firing at the company's Starbase facility on ...

NASA’s SCALPSS cameras capture a lunar sunset, with Earth and Venus visible on the horizon. [Courtesy: Firefly Aerospace] When Frank Sinatra popularized “Fly Me to the Moon,” he was probably ...

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Lunar landers from Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace will lift off atop the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this week ...

Cargo variants of Starship HLS and Blue Moon Mark 2 are also planned. Starship’s cargo capacity is targeted at 100 tons (90,700 kg), though this depends on the performance of the Super Heavy ...

SpaceX and Blue Origin are working under multibillion-dollar deals to develop the vehicles that will land Americans on the moon during Artemis III, Artemis IV, and Artemis V. SpaceX’s Starship ...

An early conceptual image of SpaceX’s lunar cargo lander, which NASA will need to deliver 26,000 to 33,000 pounds of payload to the moon. [Courtesy: NASA] NASA has picked SpaceX and Blue Origin ...

NASA said in January that initial work on the cargo versions of Blue Moon and Starship would be done under existing HLS awards and would not require additional funding.

Come 2032, SpaceX will embark on a cargo mission that will have them deliver a new rover, while Blue Origin will fulfill a 2033 mission that will deliver a lunar surface habitat to the moon.

Then, in August, Blue Origin sued NASA, again putting Starship HLS development on hold. Blue Origin lost its lawsuit on November 4, so Starship HLS is back on — but not on schedule.