A private spacecraft from Japan whizzes around the moon just weeks ahead of a planned landing attempt. A Japanese commercial spacecraft is zeroing in on its second attempt at a lunar landing, now ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander just etched its name ...

Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander dropped out of lunar orbit and swooped to a rocket-powered touchdown early Sunday, pulling off the first fully successful moon landing by a commercially-built ...

With its Blue Ghost lunar module, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace has just achieved what no other private company, anywhere in the world, has ever accomplished: successfully landing on the surface of ...

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. The moon landing was watched by an estimated 600 million people around the world. July 20, 1969 – [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes ...