Blue Ghost, an unmanned spacecraft sent by the Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, has just landed on the moon. The lunar landing ...

Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface ...

The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing, touching down ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have private companies deliver shipments of equipment to the lunar surface.

The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT) near the center of Mare Frigoris ("Sea of ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful touchdown marks a new era of frequent commercial trips to the Moon, paving the way for a long-term human presence on the lunar surface. Before we get too ahead of ...

Intuitive Machines has landed ... trip to the moon. The rest of Athena’s mission now hangs in the balance. The spacecraft, which took off for the moon aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February ...

A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon ... The rocket-powered drone came from Intuitive Machines — it’s meant to jump into a permanently shadowed crater near the landing ...

(AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon ... rocket-powered drone came from Intuitive Machines — it’s meant to hop into a permanently shadowed crater near the landing ...

“Any time that you ship ... rocket Feb. 26. Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander approached the moon’s surface on the south pole Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Courtesy/NASA) The goal after ...

Multiple governments and companies have struggled to land ... rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 15, embarking on a leisurely 45-day mission to the Moon.

Update for 4:30 am ET: Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander successfully landed on the moon early Sunday ... on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 NASA experiments as part of ...