The close encounter was "a historic first of its type for a Japanese private, commercial lunar lander," according to ispace.

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf of NASA.

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground ... the moon in the years ahead under its Artemis campaign – its first lunar program since the Apollo missions came to an end in 1972.

NASA has been preparing to send astronauts back to the moon under its Artemis campaign, its first lunar program since the Apollo missions ... The 14-foot-tall Nova-C the lander, nicknamed Odysseus ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week ... astronauts back to the moon in the years ahead under its Artemis campaign – its first lunar program since the Apollo ...

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The spacecraft commemorated the milestone by snapping some photos ... today (Feb. 14) in an X post that shared the video. Related: Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander leaves Earth orbit to head ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has ... the NASA Artemis blog announced on Monday. Firefly CEO Jason Kim previously told CNN that he is excited about sharing images and footage that Blue Ghost captures.

It describes sending Lander and Orion separately over a week to LLO (Low Lunar Orbit), docking there and landing 2 astronauts on Lunar surface using the Lander a la Apollo. This author feels that ...