Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...

On the right side of the image is the Athena lander and four of its landing legs. On the bottom is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ... But landing on the moon remains daunting, largely ...

Intuitive Machines said the Athena had enough power to be able to perform some of the scientific objectives for NASA before its batteries died.

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova-C Odysseus lander built by Intuitive Machines. It landed, toppled over, ...

Barry Wilmore and Suni Williams returned home in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft alongside two rescue ... recover from what they describe as "chicken legs and baby feet". Experts say both Williams ...

But the spacecraft tumbled and one of its landing legs broke, though it was able to communicate with ground controllers. Thursday’s landing attempt came four days after another commercial space ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft has taken its first images of the lunar surface as Firefly Aerospace and NASA celebrate a successful moon landing.

Athena’s landing was the closest a spacecraft has come to the south pole, just 100 miles away. That’s where NASA is targeting for its first landing by astronauts since the 1960s and 1970s ...

reducing the impact force on astronauts compared to a hard ground landing. Simpler spacecraft design – Eliminates the need for complex landing gear like wheels or airbags, making the spacecraft ...

A pair of NASA astronauts, who were stranded in space for more than nine months, returned to Earth on Tuesday, landing in the ... 10 carried by a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft early on Sunday met ...