Before Neil Armstrong's legendary first steps on the Moon in 1969, Nasa had to ensure that the lunar surface was well-mapped ...

Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...

It's lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission. Firefly Aerospace's Blue ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

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MANHEIM TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WHTM) — A six-seater private plane crashed into the parking area of a retirement community near the Lancaster Airport Sunday afternoon. The crash happened just after 3 p.m ...

On Sunday morning, a spacecraft built by Firefly Aerospace softly touched down on the surface of the Moon ... when it was launched into orbit using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

A Texas company's privately owned lunar lander was deemed non-functional after landing off-target sideways in a crater close to the Moon's south pole, the firm said on Friday. The mission to drop ...

The craters are believed to hold tons of frozen water that could be used by future crews to drink and turn into rocket fuel. Intuitive Machines has contracts with NASA for two more moon landing ...

This was Starship’s eighth flight test and follows a failed flight in January. The spacecraft is essential to Elon Musk’s vision of eventually colonizing Mars.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the ...

The twin solid rocket booster assembly is 177 feet tall. While originally planned to launch in September of this year, the Artemis II moon flyby crewed ... satellites into orbit, a little more ...