The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen ...

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site is closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

Blue Ghost, a spacecraft built in Cedar Park, gently landed on the moon at 2:34 a.m. Sunday. “Y’all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon,” the mission’s chief engineer told the control room after ...

Firefly Aerospace’s robotic vehicle became the second privately built spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon. It could soon be joined by two more private lunar landers.

“They’re just fired up right now in the mission control room,” Firefly Aerospace ... System signals in the moon's orbit for the first time. Sunday's landing went according to plan, and ...

“Firefly is literally and figuratively over the Moon,” said Jason Kim ... of cheers in the company’s mission control room. The landing caps a 45-day journey for Blue Ghost, which was ...

We’re on the moon,” came the callout from ... fired up right now in the mission control room,” said Firefly CEO Jason Kim minutes after landing. “They were just pent up, holding it all ...

Another moon exploration from Houston ... captured a somber-looking mission control room in the minutes surrounding its planned Thursday landing time of 12:32 p.m., the company has confirmed ...

Suspense and silence fell over a mission control room full of company staff inside ... Firefly becomes the second private firm to score a moon landing, though it declared itself the first company ...

This will mark Intuitive Machines’ second moon landing attempt ... “As you guys know, Firefly Aerospace — no jeers in the room please — they successfully landed. Albeit, where (Intuitive ...