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

Ranger 8 traveled approximately 248,000 miles from Cape Kennedy and impacted only 16 miles from its original target. Keywords Ranger 8, Moon, spacecraft, launch, impact, Sea of Tranquility ...

Landing safely on the surface of another planetary body, like the Moon or Mars, is one of the most important milestones of any given space mission. From the very beginning, NASA's Langley Research ...

landed on the moon while still moving sideways. A landing leg broke and the spacecraft tipped over on its side, limiting the mission's scientific return. Intuitive's stock fell 20% in the wake of ...

"Fly Me to the Moon" chronicles some sketchy events surrounding the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. But which of those were ...

When the Blue Ghost lander reached the lunar surface on March 2, Firefly Aerospace become the first commercial company to fully succeed in a soft moon landing at the first attempt. A week on ...

NASA websites have dropped references to landing the first woman on the moon as part of the goals for its Artemis program.

If successful, Athena would be the second US-made spacecraft to land on the moon this week. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace landed its Blue Ghost on Sunday. • Athena’s target landing site is ...

Shares of Intuitive Machines crashed 20% for a second straight session as the space exploration firm's lunar lander ran into ...

The original assumption was that commercial lunar ... Currently, the first crewed moon landing in 55 years is scheduled for 2027. The next crewed moon landing will be the greatest and most ...