NASA’s approach to managing the development of crewed lunar landers for Artemis has successfully controlled costs but not schedule.

The historic mission of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is over. The solar-powered Blue Ghost went dark on Sunday evening (March 16) after the sun set on its lunar locale, bringing an end ...

Two lunar landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines, both based in Texas, were on the moon in March ...

Two landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines were briefly on the moon at the same time in March 2025.

Two US lunar landers launched from the Kennedy Space Center touched down on the moon in March 2025, marking a milestone for ...

In 1966, three years before the first humans walked on the Moon, the Soviet Union landed a small, spherical probe, dubbed Luna 9, on the lunar surface. It was a historic moment, with the spacecraft ...

The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, does not often post on the social media site owned by his rival Elon Musk. But on Monday, Bezos did, sharing a black-and-white image of a turtle emerging from the ...

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Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar surface. “One of them is wrong,” an expert said. By Becky Ferreira Becky ...

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Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to achieve a soft landing on the moon—or, for that matter, any celestial body.

Private space exploration company Blue Origin said its Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander arrived in Houston for testing. A lunar lander from the private space exploration company Blue Origin is in Houston ...