Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

(AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer ... Firefly Aerospace put its Blue Ghost lander down in the far northern latitudes of the moon’s near side. Cockpit recorder likely hadn’t worked ...

The squat four-legged lander stands 6-foot-6 (2 meters) tall and 11 feet (3.5 meters ... a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for NASA’s long-ago Apollo moonwalkers ...

The squat four-legged lander stands 6-foot-6 (2 meters) tall and 11 feet (3.5 meters ... a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for NASA’s long-ago Apollo moonwalkers ...

The squat four-legged lander stands 6-foot-6 tall and 11 feet wide ... a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust – a scourge for NASA’s long-ago Apollo moonwalkers, who got it caked ...

The Blue Ghost lander descended from lunar orbit on autopilot, aiming for the slopes of an ancient volcanic dome.

A privately owned lunar ... lander. It still managed to operate briefly, ending America’s moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo ...

(AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with ... decade under NASA’s Artemis program, the successor to Apollo. NASA officials said before the landing that they knew ...

(AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing ... its first landing by astronauts since the 1960s and 1970s Apollo program, no earlier than 2027. The craters are believed ...

A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing ... for its first landing by astronauts since the 1960s and 1970s Apollo program, no earlier than 2027. The craters are believed to ...