The rocket-powered drone came from Intuitive Machines — it's meant to hop into a permanently shadowed crater near the landing site in search ... on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

The lander was near the intended target site ... America’s moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will pass over the landing site ... the Apollo 11 mission after Neil Armstrong, and Harrison Schmitt, an astronaut on Apollo 17, the ...

In February 2024, Intuitive Machines became the first private company to achieve a soft lunar landing -- also the first US landing since the crewed Apollo 17 mission of 1972. However, the success ...

Deploy instruments that will take physical measurements around the landing site. NASA says Blue Ghosts ... continuing the legacy of Apollo 17's Eugene Cernan, who first documented the ...

Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. But Intuitive Machines’ mission ended when its lander wound up on its side in a crater.

The lander was near the intended target site ... America’s moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

The lander was near the intended target site ... America’s Moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the US had not landed on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

Until Intuitive Machines' first mission, only national space agencies had achieved the feat, with NASA's last landing dating back to Apollo 17 in 1972. The company's ... with the small satellite, ...