How did the Orbiter Vehicle work? (Space Shuttle) ...

The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the ...

U.S. Space Force's unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 has concluded its seventh mission, successfully deorbiting and ...

A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone.

The final images from the ‘Athena’ lander seem to show it awkwardly approaching the Moon from its side. Intuitive Machines ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.

what the attitude of the vehicle is. We’re collecting photos now and downlinking those, and we’re going to get a picture from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera from above, from orbit ...

From launch vehicles to planetary missions ... a Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, a Sample Return Lander, and an Earth Return Orbiter (ERO). Unlike the baseline plans, Rocket Lab’s will perform ...

After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

Irwin, lunar module pilot, works at the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the first Apollo ... recently captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) from the spacecraft's vantage point in ...