Twenty years before Neil Armstrong uttered his memorable words on the Moon about one small step for man but a giant leap for mankind, Wernher von Braun presented an ambitious plan for manned ...

Blue Ghost will spend the next 16 days in lunar orbit, if all goes to plan. It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in ...

ispace's Resilience lander launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, along with Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander. It is taking an energy-efficient, circuitous route to the moon, and only ...

Blue Ghost, the "little lander" from Firefly Aerospace ... A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Blue Ghost and Resilience lunar landers, Jan. 15, 2025. | Credit: Space.com / Josh Dinner Ghost ...

SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket is set to take off with the IM-2 mission from Launch Complex 39A from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, Feb. 26. The Houston-based company’s Nova-C lunar lander ...

The Falcon 9 that launched Blue Ghost to orbit also carried another lunar lander along for the ride. Resilience, built by the Japanese company ispace, rode to orbit as a secondary payload aboard the ...

After launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center ... Reaching the moon is no easy feat, with America’s Peregrine lunar lander suffering a catastrophic glitch on ...

This is the first lunar lander built by Firefly, which got its start in the rocket business. Firefly launches its own small-class rocket named Alpha and has partnered with Northrop Grumman to ...

A photo captured by SpaceX also provides a look at the lunar lander prior to separation from the Falcon 9 rocket as Earth hovers far below. Earth is visible from SpaceX's Falcon 9 shortly after it ...

“After a successful Trans Lunar Injection burn, our lander has left Earth’s orbit ... Firefly launched Blue Ghost on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...

Florida's Space Coast reached double digits by hosting 10 orbital rocket launches during January ... the NASA-SpaceX Intuitive Machines moon lander mission. Following are the latest missions ...