KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — On Friday, NASA unveiled the massive Artemis II rocket that will be used ... to power the spacecraft while in transit to, around the moon and back to earth.

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is giving us some incredible views from lunar orbit ahead of its March 6 touchdown ...

"Our data paints a clear picture that MAPP survived the landing attempt and would have driven on the lunar surface and ...

The lander then separated from the rocket and fired its own engines. All told, the vehicle has spent more than a month — 45 days — in transit to the moon. So why, exactly, does this vehicle ...

After the launch, Athena will spend approximately one week in transit to the moon before attempting to land Thursday, March 6 on the lunar surface. Launching as a rideshare on the SpaceX rocket ...

The instruments Blue Ghost carries, many of which were tested in transit to the moon, are for things like lunar subsurface drilling, sample collection, X-ray imaging and dust mitigation.

Two robotic landers, one from the United States and the other from Japan, are currently in transit ... on the moon. The lunar lander hitched a ride to orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which ...

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

It shared the rocket launch with a Japanese ... over four days and then orbiting the moon for 16 days – and downloaded more than 27 gigabytes of data in transit. The longer route gave Firefly ...

The spacecraft Nova-C lander ‘Athena’ on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is ... land on the moon? Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander will spend around one week in transit to the Moon following ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15. The mission spent weeks testing the 10 scientific instruments it’s transporting to the moon.

UPDATE Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying IM-2 successfully lifted off at 7:16 P.M. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 26. Early next month, a robotic lander will arrive at the Moon ...