In April 2024, NASA selected three finalists to design, build ... company hitched a ride aboard Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander mission. Complications during the landing, however, meant ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have ...

Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost just completed its mission, which lasted a full lunar day — two Earth weeks ... connected by cables to the lander, measured voltages — essentially a supersized ...

Blue Ghost, a Texas-built lunar lander, sent its final message from ... He said the mission proves the concept of using commercial space providers to put NASA payloads on the moon.

Blue Ghost captured a lunar sunset with Earth and Venus on the horizon. Firefly Aerospace The Blue Ghost lander bid farewell to the Moon by gently going into that cold lunar night. Before ending ...

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, which published the pictures on Tuesday, became the first private company to land a robotic spacecraft upright on the Moon earlier this month. Its Blue Ghost lander ...