After achieving a touchdown in early March within the moon's Mare Crisium impact basin, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander became an on-duty robotic scientist. Kicking up dust and rocks, the ...

The lakeside terrace of The Broadmoor is a slightly different landing surface than that of the moon, but Firefly Aerospace made both work. The Blue Ghost lander in January achieved the first soft ...

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With the help of NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX, an aerospace company in Central Texas is getting ready to send a lunar lander straight to the moon after it successfully completed testing. Based in ...

There were cheers, high-fives, and hugs inside a Texas control room, when a moon lander hit its mark earlier this month. And a Lehigh Valley man was in the middle of all of it. That day, March 2, when ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, celebrated the successful Moon landing ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander, having successfully debuted as the first privately built lander to achieve a soft moon landing, has secured a $176.7 million NASA contract for its fourth ...

Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the Moon has once again become a destination of fierce ambition and delicate engineering. This time, it’s not just ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center on January 15 while sending ispace's Resilience lander and Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander into space. File ...

Four-and-a-half months after launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket, a privately-built Japanese lander attempted to touch down on the moon Thursday, but telemetry indicated a higher-than-expected descent ...