Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...

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 ...

It was launched on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ... like the design of the Intuitive Machines’ lunar landers. The company’s first lander, Odysseus, tipped over when it landed while moving ...

Since it launched aboard a SpaceX rocket on January ... Astrobotic also launched a lander, which suffered a fuel leak and did not reach the moon. To inform the design of Blue Ghost, Firefly ...

Colorado-based space firm Lunar Outpost's Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, or MAPP, launched aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander on a SpaceX ... to guide the design of lunar ...

SpaceX’s Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas and dealing another setback to Elon Musk’s rocket program after a failure ...

Elon Musk responded to critics of SpaceX’s Starship rocket early ... Intuitive Machines landed its Athena lander on the moon’s surface on Thursday, though the company has not determined ...

After the second loss of Starship was visible in Florida skies, new questions are being raised about the powerful launch ...

Beyond today’s lunar lander launch, SpaceX has planned the eighth test ... an unexpected "rapid unscheduled disassembly", prompting design and operational improvements. The company cited oxygen ...

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, entering lunar orbit ... technology for smaller missions than for NASA to design and develop everything needed from scratch.