Also eyeing the moon are US-aligned Japan and India, which made its first soft lunar landing in 2023. Firefly has a $101 million contract for the Blue Ghost mission from NASA’s Commercial Lunar ...

But after traveling more than a million kilometers through space, the spacecraft came to rest inside a crater, 250 meters from its intended target -- once again landing ... to the Moon and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the ...

That stood in stark contrast to the first private lunar landing last February, which toppled over upon arrival, dulling the achievement of being the first US Moon touchdown since the crewed Apollo ...

It still managed to operate briefly, ending America’s Moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the US had not landed on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. No one else has sent ...

“It really does open up a whole new way for us to get more science to space and to the moon," Fox said. Unlike NASA’s successful Apollo moon landings that had billions of dollars behind them ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business ...