One returned two amber glass cigar ashtrays used during the mission – preferred by the chain-smoking Apollo 11 Mission Control team as the smaller, square cigarette ashtrays filled too quickly – from ...

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A team of scientists led by Durga Prasad of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad analyzed lunar temperature data collected on site by India's Chandrayaan-3 mission, which landed near the ...

For the second time this week, a privately owned spacecraft has landed on the Moon ... He said NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter would swing by in the coming days to confirm its location ...

became the first American spacecraft since the Apollo era to land on the moon in February 2024. Although Odysseus tipped over on touchdown, it continued to send mission data back to Earth.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has clicked a photo of Firefly Aerospace ... The photo of Blue Ghost on the lunar surface was shared by NASA, although it is hard to spot the spacecraft that became ...

The spacecraft sits near a volcanic cone called Mons Latreille within the basin, which is located in the northeast region of the moon's near side. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO ...

After a successful launch last week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission landed on the Moon on March 6 shortly after 11:30 a.m. EST. The craft is transmitting back ...

It was faked. SEE ALSO: 17 lesser-known photos from the Apollo 11 mission "It was immediate. It was at the time of the Apollo 11 landing," space historian Roger Launius said in an interview ...