Although the United States' 1969 Apollo 11 mission is often heralded as humanity's first successful moon landing, this sentiment fails to remember the Luna-2, a successful Russian lunar landing (albeit unmanned) that reached the moon's surface nearly a decade earlier. Regardless of the outcome ...
pulling off the first fully successful moon landing by a commercially-built and operated robotic spacecraft.A dramatic photo beamed back from a camera on the Blue Ghost lander shows the spacecraft's shadow on the moon shortly after touchdown with Earth suspended...
Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander touched down on the Moon on Sunday, becoming the first fully successful commercial moon landing. Mark Strassmann reports. Air Date: Mar 2, 2025 2min Forecasters predict very busy hurricane season
Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander touched down on the Moon on Sunday, becoming the first fully successful commercial moon landing. Mark Strassmann reports.
It was a successful flight, with no ill effects on the monkey until impact, when it died.On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 into the Earth's orbit with a dog named Laika on board. Laik a died after a few hours. Then later that year on December 13, the U. ...
If successful, it will be the first American spacecraft to land on the moon since the last crewed Apollo mission more than 50 years ago. The last time an American spacecraft touched down on the moon was in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission. The target landing is sla...
India last year became the fourth country to achieve a soft lunar landing after Russia failed in an attempt the same month. The U.S., China and the former Soviet Union are the only other countries that have carried out successful soft lunar landings. Private companies w...
Lonestar's Freedom Data Center Payload successfully meets all of its technical and commercial milestones in CisLunar Space ahead of Historic Moon Landing ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.,March 5, 2025/PRNewswire/ -- Lonestar Data Holdings has reached a historic milestone with the successful comme...
Moon landing since the final Apollo mission in 1972. This was the first successful mission as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Services Payload (CLPS) program. Another commercial lunar mission by Pittsburgh company Astrobotic failed to reach the Moon last month. The Nova-C lunar lander arrived ...
ET. It is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, which also saw a semi-successful landing on the moon by Intuitive Machines last year. Read more Space Earth to bid farewell to its temporary mini moon on Monday Artist's concept of a near-Earth object. ...