there have been many proposals for the next generation of spacecraft to land on the moon. The first, and biggest, was an outgrowth of the Constellation Program. The Altair lunar lander was a ...

Firefly Aerospace's first mission to the moon is poised to launch in the early morning hours on Jan. 15. The company's Blue ...

The lander will take 45 days to travel to the moon, where it will land in Mare Crisium, a lunar "sea" (a large plain of basalt) that was home to the 1969 crash-landing of the Soviet Union's Luna ...

Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for ...

Regardless, the lander operated on the lunar surface for a short period. The next mission to launch under the CLPS program is Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission, which is scheduled to lift off no ...

A Texas-built lander named Blue Ghost marks another test of NASA’s new lunar delivery initiative ...

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander next to a figure of the war goddess Athena from Homer's "Iliad," from which its name is derived. While Athena is the second of four landers Intuitive ...

Blue Ghost’s Moon mission, launched by SpaceX, is set to revolutionize lunar exploration and offer Earth valuable lessons ...

The uncrewed Odysseus lander is also the ... the moon’s south pole. Complex lunar missions bring a high level of risk. Only five countries — the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, India and ...

Nasa is gearing up to fly more science to the surface of the Moon with its next commercial mission on a Firefly Aerospace lunar lander ... was the site of three Soviet-era robotic Moon landings ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, and is on a 45-day journey to the moon for NASA.