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

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

SpaceX launched a pair of commercial satellites carrying lunar rovers as competition intensifies in the private sector’s race to the moon.

On this date, Jan. 3, 1999, NASA launched the Mars Polar Lander as part of then -NASA administrator ... At a cost of approximately $165 million, the probe was relatively inexpensive for the ...

As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ...

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resulting in the probe slamming into the Red Planet at a high velocity. Artist's rendering of what the Mars Polar Lander would have looked like on the Martian surface had it not slammed into the ...

The expeditions are the latest in the commercial sector’s lunar contest after India in August 2023 became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole.

NASA launched the Mars Polar Lander as part of then -NASA administrator Dan Goldin’s “Better, Faster, Cheaper” initiative. But as the saying goes, you can only get two of the three. At a cost of ...