Private spacecraft nails Moon landing: first images of Blue Ghost on the lunar surface
A four-legged robot from Texas landed squarely on the Moon on 2 March, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to execute a lunar landing without falling over or crashing. The lander, known as Blue Ghost and built by Firefly Aerospace, based in Cedar Park, Texas, aims to spend two weeks conducting science experiments provided by NASA.
NASA’s Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for exploration, asked that question to a crowd in Cedar Park that ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...
The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...
The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.
If successful, Athena would be the second US-made spacecraft to land on the moon this week. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace landed its Blue Ghost on Sunday. • Athena’s target landing site is ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have ...
For the second time in less than a week, a privately built U.S. spacecraft has landed on the moon, but it was not a perfect ...
Intuitive Machines said the Athena had enough power to be able to perform some of the scientific objectives for NASA before ...
Intuitive Machines has landed a second spacecraft on the moon, just one year after accomplishing the feat for the first time ...
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