Firefly’s Moon Landing Venture Presages Flurry of Lunar Missions
A US startup’s robotic spacecraft is poised to attempt a lunar landing on Sunday, the first in a series of upcoming missions ...
Intuitive Machines embarks on second moon landing mission with Athena lander
Intuitive Machines' second moon lander was launched on Wednesday atop a SpaceX rocket, setting off for the latest private U.S ...
Historic lunar landing by Austin-area based Firefly Aerospace is this weekend
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost One, built in Cedar Park, TX, is set to be the first lunar lander built in the area to land on ...
The Moon’s next robotic visitor is lining up for landing this weekend
Now, Firefly is about to find out if its lunar program is a technical success. Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade, the success rate for lunar landing attempts is a little above 50 ...
Intuitive Machines' lunar lander beams back first images of Earth after launch: See photos
The lunar lander built by aerospace company Intuitive Machines launched Wednesday on an eight-day journey for its ...
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Sunday’s Moon Landing Could Fulfill a Texas Tech Professor’s Dream—or End in a Nightmare
This geophysicist will be watching anxiously as his groundbreaking experiment careens toward the lunar surface aboard Firefly ...
Why 3 private space missions are on their way to the moon right now
The companies Intuitive Machines, Firefly Aerospace, and ispace are all preparing to land on the moon. A new era of lunar ...
Commercial lunar lander Athena heading to the moon with a drill, rover and rocket-powered "hopper" to search for ice
Intuitive Machines is set to launch its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search ...