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 lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen ...

Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface ...

The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing, touching down ...

Now, starting Sunday, two more missions are set to follow within a single week, marking a bold push by NASA and its industry partners to make moon landings a routine part of space exploration.

The Houston-based company flying its second mission under NASA’s Commercial ... made history in 2024 becoming the first commercial company to manage a soft landing on the moon.

Blue Ghost, an unmanned spacecraft sent by the Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, has just landed on the moon. The lunar landing ...

Credit: NASA/Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon ... moon landing occurred just over a year ago; Intuitive Machines' Odysseus spacecraft pulled off the feat in February 2024.

The NASA program has invested $2.6 billion in ... When Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander touched down on the moon in 2024, landing gear had broken off from one of the robotic spacecraft's ...

The successful landing was a milestone for the CLPS program, NASA’s efforts to develop ... failed to reach the moon in January 2024 because of a propulsion failure, followed by the hard landing ...