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 four-legged Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific payloads as it touched down near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a large basin in the northeast corner of the moon's Earth-facing side.

Update for 1 pm ET: Intuitive Machines landed its private Athena spacecraft near the south pole of the moon ... rocket launches, skywatching events and more! MAPP is expected to facilitate the ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.

Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon on March 2 at 3:34 a.m. EST. The accomplishment marked Firefly as the first commercial company to achieve a fully ...

The second moon landing by Intuitive Machines appears to have suffered the same fate as its first try last year ... primed by NASA to return the United States to the moon, with greater private ...

The crew of Artemis III will not only reflect the diversity of America but will also be as qualified to walk on the moon as ...

Blue Ghost was the second private spacecraft to reach the lunar surface, but the first to execute a flawless landing ... Last November, Rocket Lab finalised US$23.9m in Biden Administration ...

Almost a year ago to the day, a private space company going by the name Intuitive Machines landed on the Moon a piece of technology called Odysseus. Not only was this tech the first to reach our ...

Multiple governments and companies have struggled to land spacecraft safely on the Moon in recent years ... If it succeeds next year, the US might send the first astronauts to the lunar surface ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed ... a half after launching atop a SpaceX rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center ...