Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ...

An illustration of a private U.S. lander on the surface of the moon built by Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace. The ...

NASA is sending a suite of science and technology demonstrations on Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to ...

It was the outtakes—the astronaut in the clumsy pose, the litter left on the lunar ... and the lander would be extracted. Apollo VII practiced that maneuver in Earth orbit, with no LEM aboard.

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 ...

One of NASA Apollo lunar modules may be missing. That's right, missing. And not even NASA seems to know where it is. Audio clip: Engine's on five, four, three, two, all engine's running.

In the years since the cancellation of the Constellation program, the plans for a lunar lander have evolved. No longer will astronauts repeat the mission profile of Apollo by flying off to the ...

Kim said the lander will capture a celestial site last documented by Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan. “We’ll then wrap up the mission by capturing a solar eclipse and a lunar sunset in high ...

Inside, the lander has ... The gold foil? Emergency thermal blankets wrapped around the frame. We happen to have the perfect chaser for this kid-scale lunar module: the Apollo 11 moon landing ...

Despite a last-minute meeting convened Friday with the White House, those payloads departed aboard the Peregrine lander. "No individual ... the largest lunar lander since the Apollo lunar module ...

“The Apollo days ... except that it is hard to navigate on. It has no features, like a horizon or rivers, to help guide the lander. The lunar surface actually looks very similar from a thousand ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander launched at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...