NASA’s Apollo Program was built on ambition, but it nearly collapsed after a deadly disaster. From the Apollo 1 tragedy to ...
NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble ...
And like earlier missions from this hallowed launch complex — including Apollo 8 (the first crew-carrying Moon voyage) and Apollo 11 (humanity ... a piece of a landing gear leg that has ...
Last year, the Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander was the first American spacecraft to land on the moon in 52 years and the ...
The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft is returning data to NASA scientists on Earth, they announced ...
Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said during the landing webcast ... which is about 6.6 feet (3 meters) tall by 11.5 feet (3.5 m) wide, is Firefly's ...
even when we landed," Firefly CEO Jason Kim said during the landing webcast. "We've got some moon dust on our boots!" Blue Ghost, which is about 6.6 feet (3 meters) tall by 11.5 feet (3.5 m ...
Athena then completed its landing at 11:57 p.m. CST, but then required several ... The craft is equipped with experimental cellular communications gear, a rover and a device known as a hopper ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar spacecraft landed upright on the Moon–a first for a private company–and released amazing HD video ...
The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.
It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova ...