While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...

A specialized version of Starship will serve as the lunar lander, known as the Human Landing System (HLS). This makes the ...

Blue Origin won NASA's second HLS contract, tapping the company's Blue Moon lander to deliver astronauts to the lunar surface for missions beyond Artemis 3. TKThe successful maiden launch of Blue ...

On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

The company's second lunar lander, Athena, will carry a small rover and other payloads when its launched, which is ...

The concept of the mission last year included six launches of Gateway modules, Human Landing System (HLS) elements ... a crewed descent to the lunar surface in the lander. Near the start of ...

And in both cases, the lander’s human crew wouldn’t launch from Earth until their ride to the lunar surface is fueled up and waiting for them. According to the current plan, a single New Glenn ...

As part of NASA’s strategy to involve commercial partnerships, SpaceX’s Starship was chosen as the primary lunar lander ... enhancements for the HLS Starship, such as solar arrays and docking ...